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Link: Gallup Poll - Bush Tops Nixon's Unpopularity
SCOOP LINK:GALLUP: Bush Finally Tops Nixon -- In
Unpopularity -- As Call for Iraq Pullout Hits New Peak
By E&P Staff
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.
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