There’s no real point in highlighting every new [tag]poll[\/tag] that’s released showing [tag]Bush[\/tag]’s awful [tag]approval ratings[\/tag] — his unpopularity has more or less reached dog-bites-man territory — so I’ll make everyone a deal: I’ll only mention new national polls about the president when a) the results show a new all-time low; or b) when the internals show something particularly unusual.<\/p>\n
The latest [tag]CNN[\/tag] poll<\/a> falls into the prior.<\/p>\n President Bush’s approval ratings have sunk to a personal low, with only a third of Americans saying they approve of the way he is handling his job, a national poll released Monday said.<\/p>\n In the telephone poll of 1,012 adult Americans carried out Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, [tag]32[\/tag] percent of respondents said they approve of Bush’s performance, 60 percent said they [tag]disapprove[\/tag] and 8 percent said they do not know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I could be wrong, but 32% seems like a floor that will be hard to break through. The president has lost just about everyone he’s going to lose; these 32% would probably back Bush if he personally came to their home and punched them in the face. (“Well, I’m sure he had a perfectly good reason…”)<\/p>\n On a related note, I was going through some conservative blogs yesterday for my other gig<\/a> when I came across an interesting perspective<\/a> on Bush’s plummeting support from Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush.<\/p>\n The left would love it if their cooked-polls would dispirit all of us – but they don’t. They do get after our weak sisters in the Congressional GOP – plus the odd conservative pundit who lacks courage – but most of us don’t give a hoot for polls showing President Bush’s approval rating down. Part of this is because we know the polls are bogus – invariably they heavily over-sample Democratic respondents – but even if the polls were rock-solid, we still wouldn’t run up the white flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n