Bad news for McBush: 90% Believe U.S. on Wrong Track

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90% Believe U.S. on Wrong Track

Posted by Matt Ortega on October 13, 2008 at 10:22 AM

According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 90 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track -- the highest ever recorded since the question was first asked 35 years ago.

Given the global economic crisis, a record 90 percent of registered voters say the country is seriously off on the wrong track, the most since this question first was asked in 1973. At 23 percent, Bush's job approval rating has fallen below Nixon's lowest; it's a point away from the lowest in 70 years of polling, set by Harry Truman in early 1952. Bush's disapproval, meanwhile, is at an all-time record -- 73 percent.

To much of the dismay of the McCain team, this was not the year to be running the "more of the same" campaign.