’)In our euphoria, we shouldn’t forget the injustice that has been done to America.
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job.
That’s an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.
And CNN kept repeating this morning that Obama was meeting with Bush today, “even though he repeatedly bashed him during the campaign.”
Sigh.
really? why not talk about the congress? how about this?
The only thing lower than the Bush approval ratings is the Democratic congress
noonespecial,
Really, you have statistics that break out the Democratic part of Congress from the Republican part and show that the Democratic members of Congress have a lower approval rating than the Republican members of Congress? Or did you mean to say that Congress as a whole has lower approval ratings than Bush? As has been noted ad infinitum, here and elsewhere, Congress generally will have lower approval ratings than the executive because it containts both parties, so both Republicans and Democrats can gripe at it. It’s unusual for a president to have approval ratings that are significantly lower than the percentage of self-identified members of his party among the voters.
Also, the last CNN/Opinion Research poll I saw (the one taken 10/3-5/08) gave Congress as a whole a disapproval rating of 76%. So I don’t even know where you’re getting the statistic that Congress has the lower approval rating. If it’s from a different organization’s poll, you have to compare that to the same organization’s poll for the president as well; you can’t compare across polling organizations because of their different methodologies.