Can Bushs First Sub-40 Approval Rating Be Far Away?
• Bush Losing His Strong Suit Can Bush’s First Sub-40 Approval Rating Be Far Away? The latest round of public polls confirms the continuing, across-the-board weakening of public confidence in Bush and his administration suggested by the early June Washington Post/ABC News poll (see below). If present trends continue, it will not be long before Bush receives his first sub-40 overall approval rating, a traditional marker of an incumbent administration in serious trouble. Key findings from these recent polls include: Overall Approval Rating Bush’s overall approval rating has sunk to 42 percent in two recent polls by CBS News/New York Times and Pew Research Center. In a third, Ipsos-AP, he is down to 43 percent. Right Direction/Wrong Track In the CBS/NYT poll, just 33 percent think the county is going in the right direction and 61 percent think it is seriously off on the wrong track (26/64 among independents). In the Ipsos-AP poll, the analogous figures are 35 percent right direction/59 pe
