WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job.
That's an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
(h/t to the lovely watertiger)
Richard Nixon is probably smiling in his grave.
Posted by: Kaleberg | November 10, 2008 at 20:51
better keep georgee medicated and cheeney out of DC.
Posted by: pansypoo | November 10, 2008 at 21:01
It is indeed a pleasant fiction to demand justice, and to ridicule for the sake of popularity the result of ones actions! Alas, I see you all with sword and sheild in hand demanding he be brought to the guillatine at the expense for wounding your delicate dispositions. Less I be to blame for supporting this ridiculous excuse for a president; may instead I interest you possibly to the extent that we have given for those many who have dined at our table and have developed very bad manners!
Posted by: Kimimaro | November 11, 2008 at 13:12