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CBS News' Kathy Frankovic: Bush Likely To Leave Office As The Least Popular President In Polling History
Jan. 15, 2009 | by Kathleen Frankovic

... Both of our two most recent two-term presidents - Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton -- ended their eight years in office with high marks. Each had approval ratings of 68 percent when he left office ...

Never in his entire second term did even half of Americans approve of the way he was handling his job, according to our CBS News Polls. Indeed, for the last year and a half, George W. Bush’s approval rating has never risen above 30 percent -- a lower figure than every single rating CBS News measured for his father.

The president’s approval rating first fell below 40 percent after the administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina in September 2005; it was barely above 40 percent the next January, but it would never again go that high. ...

George W. Bush’s approval rating on the economy sank to 16 percent last September, and has not recovered much since then ...

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