Bush approval rating slips into 'uncharted waters' in California

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14263932p-15076722c.html



President Bush, whose approval rating in California has dropped four percentage points in just the past month, is edging ever closer to the all-time low performance rating for a president among the state's voters, a new Field Poll has found.

The Republican president, with his support now hemorrhaging even among California Republicans, has the approval of only 28 percent of registered voters, a low eclipsed only by the 24 percent approval rating President Richard Nixon got in California just days before he resigned from office in 1974 at the height of the Watergate scandal, the poll found.

Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said the low numbers were unprecedented for a president with a substantial amount of time left to serve. Other presidents with extremely poor ratings -- Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush -- were on the way out when they sank to such lows.

"We're in uncharted waters," DiCamillo said. "We have two and a half more years left in (Bush's) term. That's what makes this unique and kind of begs the question: Can the president recover? He certainly has enough time to do it, but does he have the means?"

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Public humiliation.... boyoboyoboy...

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. only 4% more to go... I'll count days until an all time low & impeachment

[Cha]

3. bush has the time

but he doesn't have the means.

[upi402]

4. Bomb Iran and will it go up?

I wonder if 'mericuns are wise to their BS yet...
:popcorn:

[AndyTiedye]

5. Bomb Iran and the Polling Orgs Are Instructed to MAKE His Numbers Go Up

It's that "wartime" thing, y'know.

At least GallopingElephants and RepublicanAssMuffin will comply.

[HockeyMom]

6. Approval Ratings State by State

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/50StatePres060515Net.htm

Rhode Island and New York in virtual tie for worst approval rating of 23%.