Hey EvilChuck! ...looks like you and a coupla carloads of other idjits are the only ones left rooting for Bush!

Bush Approval Rating Slides
To New Low Of 34%

11-18-5

(AFP) -- President George W Bush's job approval rating has touched a
new low of 34%, according to a new survey. New York - President George W
Bush's job approval rating has touched a new low of 34%, according to a US
survey published on Thursday by Harris Interactive.

While one in three Americans rated Bush's performance in the White
house as "positive," 65% said it was "only fair" or "poor," the poll showed.

Bush's approval rating has been slipping from 50% when he was
re-elected in November 2004, to 45% in June to 40% in August of this year,
according to the New York-based pollster.

In 2001, at the start of his first four-year term, Bush enjoyed a
56% approval rating, which shot up to 88% after the September 11, 2001
attacks in the United States.

In April 2003, as the United States geared up for an invasion of
Iraq, 70% of Americans approved of the Republican president's job
performance, but his approval ratings had been steadily falling for a year.

Compared with other two-term presidents at a similar point in their
mandates, Bush is now slightly more popular than Richard Nixon's 29%
approval rating.

At the end of their fifth year in office, Lyndon Johnson had a 67%
rating, Ronald Reagan 66% and Bill Clinton 58%.

In the latest Harris survey, Vice President *** Cheney fared even
worse than his boss, with just 30% of Americans believing he was doing a
good job, down from 35% in August.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld matched Bush with a 34% approval
rating, sliding from 40% in the previous poll.

Sixty-eight of those polled said the country was on the "wrong
track," while 27% said it was headed in the "right direction."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remains the public's favourite
in the Bush administration, but her star is also falling, to 52% from 57% in
August.

The telephone survey of 1 011 Americans was conducted between
November 8 and 13.



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