lily
03-20-2008, 02:55 AM
He's breaking records! (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/19/bush.poll/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
Poll: Bush's popularity hits new low
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Five years after he green-lighted the U.S.-led invasion
of Iraq, President Bush faced strikingly low approval ratings as he
reaffirmed his commitment to "accept no outcome but victory" in the war.
A poll out Wednesday finds that 67 percent of those surveyed disapprove of
President Bush.
Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his
job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the anniversary of the start of
the conflict in 2003.
Sixty-seven percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research
Corporation survey disapprove of the president's performance.
The 31 percent approval number is a new low for Bush in CNN polling and is
40 points lower than the president's number at the start of the Iraq war.
"Bush's approval rating five years ago, at the start of the Iraq war, was 71
percent, and that 40-point drop is almost identical to the drop President
Lyndon Johnson faced during the Vietnam War," CNN polling director Keating
Holland said.
"Johnson's approval rating was 74 percent just before Congress passed the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, which effectively authorized the Vietnam
War. Four years later, his approval was down to 35 percent, a 39-point drop
that is statistically identical to what Bush has faced so far over the
length of the Iraq war," he said.
Poll: Bush's popularity hits new low
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Five years after he green-lighted the U.S.-led invasion
of Iraq, President Bush faced strikingly low approval ratings as he
reaffirmed his commitment to "accept no outcome but victory" in the war.
A poll out Wednesday finds that 67 percent of those surveyed disapprove of
President Bush.
Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his
job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the anniversary of the start of
the conflict in 2003.
Sixty-seven percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research
Corporation survey disapprove of the president's performance.
The 31 percent approval number is a new low for Bush in CNN polling and is
40 points lower than the president's number at the start of the Iraq war.
"Bush's approval rating five years ago, at the start of the Iraq war, was 71
percent, and that 40-point drop is almost identical to the drop President
Lyndon Johnson faced during the Vietnam War," CNN polling director Keating
Holland said.
"Johnson's approval rating was 74 percent just before Congress passed the
Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964, which effectively authorized the Vietnam
War. Four years later, his approval was down to 35 percent, a 39-point drop
that is statistically identical to what Bush has faced so far over the
length of the Iraq war," he said.