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Poll: Bush, most unpopular US president
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:28:29 GMT
Outgoing President George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in US history among American citizens, a new poll suggests.
Some 76% of respondents disapproved President Bush's job in the White House as he leaves office on Jan. 20, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll said on Monday.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70%. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
"That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating," he added.
The record holder for presidential disapproval before Bush was Harry Truman, with a 67% disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office.
The poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday with 1,246 adult Americans questioned by telephone.