Bush Poll Numbers Hit a New Low

Posted on May 5, 2007

As George Bush brushes up on his royal etiquette in preparation for Queen Elizabeth's visit and the most formal state dinner held during his administration, he can take consolation from the fact that the Queen is too refined to mention his horrifying low approval numbers. He's just matched Jimmy Carter by poling at a dismal 28% approval rating.

President George W. Bush's public approval rating fell to the lowest of his presidency and may be dragging down scores for Republican presidential hopefuls, according to a Newsweek poll. Bush's approval rating fell to 28 percent this week, the lowest since a similar score by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, the year of the Iran hostage crisis. The poll also found that 71 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.
Almost two-thirds of those polled, 62 percent, said that Bush's actions in Iraq showed he was "stubborn and unwilling to admit his mistakes," the survey said. The poll also showed that all three leading Democratic contenders beat their Republican counterparts in head-to-head competition among registered voters.

Bush seems to take some kind of perverse pleasure in refusing to listen to the electorate. The American people have said over and over in polls that they want out of Iraq's civil war. But the president is too busy telling people how the increasing violence in Iraq somehow means that things are going great.