>> May 1, 2008
>> Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history
>>
>> Posted: 02:30 PM ET
>>
>> New poll numbers show bad news for president Bush.
>>
>> WA****NGTON (CNN) - A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the
>> most unpopular president in modern American history.
>>
>> A CNN/Opinion Research Cor****ation survey released Thursday indicates
>> that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his
>> handling his job as president.
>>
>> "No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or
>> Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's
>> disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling
>> Director Keating Holland.
>> "Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll,
>> remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard
>> Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two
>> presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland added.
>> "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by
>> Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952."
>>
>> CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more
>> unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the
>> presidency in August 1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in
>> August 1974 stood at 67 percent.
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