FIELD POLL: Approval of Bush on war, economy skids to new lows

[babylonsister]

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Approval of Bush on war, economy skids to new lows
No president since Nixon has rated worse in California

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Staff Writer

California voters' approval of President Bush -- now engaged in a war of words with Democratic congressional leadership over funding and American troop withdrawals in Iraq -- has disintegrated to the lowest levels since he took office, according to a Field Poll released today.

Much of the president's plunging popularity is due to California voters' opposition to the war, the poll showed, as more of his fellow Republicans desert him over his handling of Iraq.

Just 26 percent of California voters surveyed by the Field Poll approved of the president's performance in office -- nearly reaching the record low 24 percent approval rating of former President Richard Nixon in August 1974, just before his resignation over the Watergate scandal.

The poll showed that just 24 percent of the state's voters saw the president's performance in Iraq in a positive light, compared with 72 percent who viewed it negatively, the poll showed.

Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, said the results reflected a "really dismal" loss of confidence in Bush, saying that "what is driving (his numbers) down now is that the Republicans seem to have greater reservations and are more critical of the president than they have ever been.

"That's the only way an elected official can get into the 20s,'' DiCamillo said. "You have to start losing your rank and file."

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Shrub should go the way of the Dodo and Trickie Dick .

[hobbit709]

2. "You have to start losing your rank and file."

the file of shrub supporters is pretty rank.