…what the lowest ever was?
Harry Truman won the dubious distinction of 23%.
If interested, you may read the short article at
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/10/how_low_can_it_.html
I suspect Bush’s rating will one day beat Truman’s.
(Mr. Truman remains as my all-time political hero, however.)
It disturbs me greatly that are enough Bush supporters left to keep his numbers as high as they are. I suppose his (remaining) supporters must be those head-in-the-sand types who think Pi = 3 and that humans and dinosaurs existed simultaneously.
You misspelled 28%.
At this point, thirty eight would constitute a mandate. 
Oh Lord a mercy. How could I have screwed that one up!
Thanks, Squink.
I have never quite figured out what Truman did that was so horrible. Anyone who lived thru his two terms want to chime in? Odd that his current reputation is pretty good.
I think you’ll get a good read at
To be honest, yeah, that’s a lot of it.
During the last election cycle I remember one of the major news sites interviewing a voter; she said “Well, President Bush is a Prayer Warrior, just like me, so God wants me to vote for him.”
Truman got a 23% in a day when there wasn’t a wannabe-theocratic movement supporting one party. Bush’s score will be hard to drive that low because the “Prayer Warriors” represent an unassailable voting bloc. If Bush ordered an invasion of Canada and set up death camps to exterminate Catholics, millions of fundamentalist Christians would still vote for him.
To be fair, I think there’s more to Bush’s remaining support then just religious conservatives. I think a lot of people are buying the idea that during a war supporting the President is the same as supporting the country. Many people, including some here on this board, feel that you can wave away objective reality - you don’t lose a war by losing it, you can only lose a war by admitting you lost it. They believe the key to victory is to keep insisting that you’re winning. If you accept this mindset, Bush is doing a great job in Iraq - he was never wavered for a second in his insistence that we are winning. So these people support Bush.
A blow job from an intern could knock his numbers down into Truman territory. A blow job from a MALE intern would really turn the trick. 
Let’s not confuse military objectives w/ political objectives. The military has accomplished its assigned task very well, given the restrictions of manpower vs. the size of the task and the political restictions.
Bush earned his high disapproval ratings through his own pathetic incompetence.
If Bush had established a meaningful coalition, to include some solid support from Arab states, and had used an invasion force of 350,000, or more, there may have been a chance of meeting the goal of establishing some semblance of democracy in Iraq. The military has done its job, it’s the civilian leadership that’s failed.
Although, I still think invading Iraq was a fool’s errand. There were, and are, other more pressing issues such as the ongoing Isreali/Palestinian dispute and routing the Taliban, Al Queda support in Afghanistan. Thses should have been addressed before even considering an invasion of Iraq.
I think we need a bit of perspective here. From the article Squink linked to:
I’d say that people in this country are just unhappy with their leaders, period.
There has got to be a man somewhere in America willing to take one for the team…
Wouldn’t that be give one for the team?
Bush is at rock bottom, if you go by the Alan Keyes Theory:
I personally prefer this, though:
I don’t know how credible this is, but here is a NY Times article claiming that polls show Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has less than 4% of voters “expressing support” for him. Whatever that means, that’s a pretty amazing number.
I’ll step forward, but only if I get to use my teeth. 
A gay liaison in the only thing that could get his numbers any lower. But then he could say he has been healed of his “sin” by God, and the 28% percent that left would forgive him and return. I’m sure many of them would “understand”.
We never did find out which bedroom Jeff Gannon stayed in during his sleepovers at the white house.