Presidents - Disapproval of American Public

American Presidents


May 1, 2008 - CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey (poll conducted by telephone from Monday through Wednesday among 1,008 adult Americans, sampling error is plus or minus 3% points) indicates that 71% of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president. No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70% mark. He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974 (disapproval rating of 66%). Support for the war in Iraq has never been lower - 30% of those questioned favored the war, 68% opposed it. Bush's approval rating (28%) remained better than all-time lows set by Harry Truman (22%) and Richard Nixon (24%), but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s; previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67% disapproval in January 1952.