GALLUP: Bush Finally Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity -- As Call for Iraq Pullout Hits New Peak

by E&P Staff [That is, Editor & Publisher. Clearly, with impeachment being a political process, these abysmal ratings shouldn't encourage anyone to actually impeach and try to save the republic! Of course not -- ask the Democratic "leadership." Gee, Clinton's inversely high ratings didn't stop the Republicans, did it? I mean, to say nothing of the relative seriousness of the charges. To all those who want to wait 15 months: how many deaths will that be? How many new wars? How much more damage? The best "public diplomacy" we could do, as a nation, is to impeach these criminals pronto. I introduce a new label below, "Spineless Democrats." Won't bother back-labelling; it'd take forever.]

Published: November 06, 2007 2:50 PM ET

NEW YORK For almost two years, President Bush has been threatening to unseat Richard M. Nixon as the most unpopular president in the history of the Gallup poll, and it finally happened this week.

The latest USA TODAY/Gallup survey finds Bush with a 31% approval rating -- and for the first time ever in the polling history, 50% say they "strongly disapprove" of a president.

The previous high (or low?) was a 48% strong disapproval rating for Nixon at the worst moments of Watergate in 1974.

The telephone survey of 1,024 adults was conducted last Friday through Sunday.

Meanwhile, ABC News relates today, "Recent reports of fewer casualties in Iraq haven't altered most Americans' perceptions of the war: Fifty-nine percent still don't think the United States is making significant progress restoring civil order there, and a record six in 10 want the level of U.S. forces reduced.

"Those results in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll seem to reflect a continued hardening of attitudes on Iraq. Views on progress are unchanged from early September, and they haven't been positive since December 2005, shortly after the Iraqi elections."