Bush Approval Rating Hits the 20s for First Time

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By: E&P Staff President Bush?s job approval rating has fallen to 29%, its lowest mark of his presidency, and down 6% in one month, according to a new Harris poll. And this was before Thursday's revelations about NSA phone surveillance.

Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an ?excellent or pretty good? job as president, down from 35% in April and 43% in January.

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say ?things in the country are going in the right direction,? while 69% say ?things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.?

Some 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. Interest has faded slightly in the immigration issue.

Other recent major polls have pegged Bush's approval rating from 31% to 37%.





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