The rush to the bottom
A new Zogby poll has come out today showing President Bush’s approval rating at 29 percent. Amazingly, that rating makes him vastly more popular than Congress:
Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March. A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.
The 11 percent approval rating is down from 35 percent (according to Gallup) shortly after Democrats gained the majority in January, and even down from 21 percent last November, which was after a solid year of beating on the GOP led Congress in the election campaign.
Just nine months after talking the helm, it looks as though Democrats’ popularity has been “redeployed.”