38% (CNN/Gallup + Bonus Data Mining)

The Chimp in Winter

The CNN/Gallup poll released today follows closely to other recent polls with a 38% approval rating for President Bush. Here are some of the wonky details:

When Americans were asked a follow-up of whether they strongly approve or disapprove of Bush, more than twice as many Americans say they strongly disapprove (44%) as say they strongly approve (20%) of Bush. The strong disapproval rating is the highest Gallup has measured for Bush by a percentage point, and is the highest for any president since Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.

Nixon is the only other president to register strong disapproval ratings above 40% in Gallup Polls. Nixon had a 48% strong disapproval rating in February 1974, and a 46% rating days before he resigned from office in August 1974.

Forty-nine percent of Republicans now strongly approve of Bush, the lowest expression of solidarity with Bush by his own party to date.
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Bush receives his worst marks of the four [personal] characteristics on being able to "manage the government effectively." Just 40% currently believe that Bush possesses this personal characteristic.