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WASHINGTON — The Dow isn’t the only thing that’s falling in the current economic crisis. Now President Bush’s approval rating has dropped to a record low.
A Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday finds only 25% of Americans approve of the way Bush is handling the job of president; 70% disapprove.
INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC: Bush approval rating through the years
That’s the lowest approval and the highest disapproval of his eight years in office. His approval rating has dropped eight percentage points in a month.
The telephone survey of 1,011 adults has a margin of error of +/— 3 points.
“He has already paid the approval price for the Iraq war” with ratings that have been dismal for two years, says Richard Eichenberg, a Tufts University political scientist. “Now in addition, with the horrible economic news of the last three weeks, some of the blame is obviously being laid to him and presumably the way his administration has managed the policy package of the last two or three weeks.”
That’s bad news for presidential candidate John McCain, too. As a fellow Republican, “some of it is going to rub off on him,” Eichenberg says.
Since 1938, when Gallup began measuring presidential job approval, only two presidents have scored lower ratings: Harry Truman, who sank to 22% in February 1952 amid opposition to the Korean War, and Richard Nixon, who dropped to 24% in the spring and summer of 1974. In August of that year, the Watergate scandal forced him to resign from office.
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