Updates: Gallup: Bush Approval Rating

Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point

April 5, 2005 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000866232 It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.



President Bush's approval rating has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term, the Gallup Organization reported today.



"All other presidents who were re-elected to a second term had approval ratings well above 50% in the March following their re-election," Gallup reported.



Bush's current rating is 45%. The next lowest was Reagan with 56% in March 1985.



More bad signs for the president: Gallup's survey now finds only 38% expressing satisfaction with the "state of the country" while 59% are "dissatisfied." One in three Americans feel the economy is excellent or good, while the rest find it "only fair" or poor.



Gallup noted that more challenges lie ahead for Bush, including public doubts about his Social Security plan and Iraq policies.



Here are the approval ratings for presidents as recorded by Gallup in the March following their re-election:



Truman, 1949: 57%.



Eisenhower, 1957: 65%.



Johnson, 1965: 69%.



Nixon, 1973: 57%.



Reagan, 1985: 56%.



Clinton, 1997: 59% .



Bush, 2005: 45% . Okay, tell us again how Bush won his re-election even though all the exit polls showed Kerry in a landslide. Go on. Tell us. We LOVE that one. It's almost as funny as the one about Saddam's 'nookular' weapons.

As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.



The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage. The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general incorruptibility and its through, in-depth analyses. Its concurrence with assertions widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" adds crucial new weight to the case that Team Bush has no legitimate business being in the White House. [Free Press 10/26/2005] The Government Accounting Office has confirmed what the blogs reported and the mainstream media media dismissed as "conspiracy theory". The electronic voting machines were wide open to fraud, and fraud likely occured in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, and New Mexico, among other states.