Bush reaches new low in approval ratings

The bad news just keeps getting worse for George W. Bush. Newsweek is now reporting that his approval rating is not only lower than his father's, but is tied with Jimmy Carter at 28 percent. Our question is where have that 28 percent been over the past six years? Surely, not all of them have just been released from mental institutions? Oh wait, St. Ronnie of Reagan, turned all the mentally ill out on the streets 20 years ago.-Jake 

From Newsweek:

May 5, 2007 - It’s hard to say which is worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that he seems to be dragging every ’08 Republican presidential candidate down with him. But According to the new NEWSWEEK Poll, the public’s approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president in our poll, and a point lower than Gallup recorded for his father at Bush Sr.’s nadir. The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter who also scored a 28 percent approval in 1979. This remarkably low rating seems to be casting a dark shadow over the GOP’s chances for victory in ’08. The NEWSWEEK Poll finds each of the leading Democratic contenders beating the Republican frontrunners in head-to-head matchups.