Bush Becomes President With Highest Disapproval Rating Ever
He took the title from Harry S. Truman:
WASHINGTON — President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.
The interesting thing is that Barack Obama thinks Harry Truman was one of the best Presidents of all time. Hillary Clinton has been known to hold Harry Truman in high regard as well.
So what does this tell us? That perhaps in-the-moment public opinion polls are all but meaningless in terms of a leader’s legacy? Don’t tell the media or the left (I repeat myself) that, as they’re too busy glorifying in Bush’s low approval numbers.
