Ah ha ha ha! How much lower before he passes Nixon?

He's now the Jesse Ventura of Presidents. What an unk.

That's fun but not particularly useful. This poll is so far outside the range of other polls there's obviously something wrong here.

Read more:

www.pollster.com/.../poll_arg_bush.php

I think he has passed Nixon.  

This is an interesting phenomenon.  I think there is a group of Americans who find the cognitive dissonance of thinking ill of a president (from their own side of the aisle of course) to much to bear, until that is his time seems up and they can attach their affections? to someone else.  Then they finally can accept their won disgust because the see hope [ha, ha] in the succession.  How else to explain this?

Perhaps Bush can leave office as the most reviled president in our history.  That would be fitting and, despite the transfer of Republican affections to a new face, would certainly augur well for November.

benjamin81, he already has passed Nixon, if this is right. When Nixon resigned, he was at about 25%. He's passed Jimmy Carter in 1980. This polls seems a little bit off. What could cause that precipitous a drop? The economic downturn?

Not that I want to defend Bush or anything, but let's keep in mind that ARG also had Clinton up six in Wisconsin.

History will vindicate Bush and he will go down as a combination Harry Truman, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Scooby Doo.

If you take a look at the comments linked by Winjer, The poll was structured in a poor way. After polling individuals about how they economy is doing via various questions they then asked if they approved of Bush's job.

What this poll really implies is  "If you consider the economy how would you rate the job President Bush is doing?" 19% sounds high.

rozenson, I Bush has lost support among the nativeists for his enlightened immigration policy, and Africa policy

And the left is not willing to give him credit for these policies

So if Bush were a  worse president, I imagine he would have higher approval ratings – he would at least have the support of the  knuckle-draggers

Is it statistically impossible for Bill Kristol to make up 19% of the survey sample? I mean seriously, the real surprise is that a fifth of the country still approves of this embarrassment.

George W. Bush and Richard B. "Dick" Cheney are war criminals and traitors to the Republic.  They need to be tried for their crimes and sent to prison for the rest of their lives.  Until they are made to answer for their crimes, there is no justice in America, and the Republic will never be safe from tyranny.

I don't think the point is to focus on the relative peaks and deep trophs of Dubya, but to look at how long he has been in the late 20's and early 30's.

Surely, some kind of new record for the longest run of unpopluarity in presidental history?

Gotta be a record, right?

Blackton, you had me going "WTF?!" until the end there. You crack me up.

"This polls seems a little bit off. What could cause that precipitous a drop? The economic downturn?"

@rozensen: Yeah's it's probably a lowball, but my gut tell's me the vector's only off a little in magnitude, not direction. People have just had it with this loser. And yeah, I think the slow-motion economic meltdown hurts him, the growing realization that the Surge didn't Make Everything Perfect Forever hurts him, the dawning recognition that Afghanistan and Pakistan are in immenent danger of boiling over hurts him...hell, S-Chip hurts him, the environment hurts him, even the McCain embrace hurts him. And, look, as if being a serious contender for Worst Leader In The History Of The Galaxy weren't enough, the guy's currently a lame duck president who isn't the number one story right now.

He may not be running against Obama or McCain, but the comparisons, unconscious or otherwise, or unavoidable, eg,  "Look at these candidates we have now. Smart, talented, strong people run for Prez. How the blue f--k did we ever end up with THIS putz?"

Nothing sucks like sucking.  

"George W. Bush and Richard B. "Dick" Cheney are war criminals and traitors to the Republic."

Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Nixon?  It's a good thing for this Admin that opinion polling wasn't around when James Buchanan was giving up the Oval Office ...

@ Sullydog and tembrach:

There was a period in time when Bush had piles and piles of bad stories about him, one scandal right after the other -- Dubai ports, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, warantless wiretapping, the war sucking, GOP follies galore, Cheney hunting, Hurricane Katrina, Terri Schiavo, Social Security privatization, and many more I can't remember off the top of my head. Just a continuous barrage of badness. Even with ALL of those, simultaneously making him look even more and more like a goner, his approval ratings never went below 29%. And now all of a sudden, with the spotlight off of him, his disapproval is at 77%? That can't be right. No other poll has had him even close to this low. This is historically low -- worse than Truman during Korea, worse than Nixon during Watergate, worse than Carter during the world imploding. Yeah, people are upset with him -- but I don't buy a sudden 15-point drop.

Why the unpopularity? Millions of reasons. Here's just one:

Today Brent Wilkes got twelve years in the slammer in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal.

Remember Brent? Brent the Pioneer! Mercer Reynolds, III, the Bush family money wrangler, created the Pioneers for the Bush '04 campaign. Each Pioneer had to "donate" at least $100,000 to join that prestigious club.

Bye, Brent. Mercer is now, as of two weeks ago, the new money wrangler for the McBush campaign: The quest for Bush's third term is officially underway.

19% does sound high.

tembrach- good points regarding immigration and Africa.   I might add that the religious right doesn't feel he has done enough, given how much he owes them.  

Good one, blackton. You really dislike Scooby Doo that much, though, comparing him to Bush?

Not to trivialize the Holocaust or anything -- and, boy, there's a promising opening sentence -- is it maybe time we start a nonpartisan "Never Again" movement against George W. Bush? For the sake of America's future, we need a proactive approach to preventing post-White House revisionism and hagiography a la the right wing's Reagan Legacy Project.

Maybe sponsor academic papers to identify the fundamental traits of Bush so that we can identify them in future politicians, or find ways to sponsor anti-memorials and name schools and bridges in anti-Bush fashions. Make sure Dubya passes into history with the clear memory of what a disaster he has been.

Is there a database of ugly faces photos. This one is priceless. If his mouth were any more downturn, he'd be a bloodhound.

Bloodhounds, hold the letters and emails, please, we know how you feel.

Rhubarbs, your first sentence made me laugh out loud.

To Rhubarbs: I certainly have a couple of suggestions like renaming the Superdome the George W Bush Memorial Dome and renaming the Baghdad Airpurt Road, the George W Bush Memorial Highway. And all of those FEMA trailers can be Bushmobiles.

It's the economy, stupid. People are nervous about jobs and housing prices, and the nervous ones include lost of socially conservative blue-collar and middle-class GOPers.