- (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush's approval
rating fell to a record low of 36 percent from 40 percent at the end of
September, a survey released today by Newsweek magazine showed.
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- Bush's previous record low was 38 percent in the days
after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 29. Newsweek said Bush's approval
rating equals the low of Bill Clinton's presidency in May 1993, when the
Democratic president also hit 36 percent. Bush's father, President George
H. W. Bush, recorded a 32 percent approval rating in a Gallup poll taken
in July 1992 before Clinton defeated him.
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- A total of 58 percent of those surveyed by today's Newsweek
poll said they disapprove of how Bush is handling his job, following the
indictment of I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff of Vice President Dick
Cheney, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice and the withdrawal
of the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.
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- Fifty-six percent of Americans told the poll the president
``won't be able to get much done'' during his last three years in office,
and 68 percent said they are dissatisfied with the direction the country
is going at the moment compared with 61 percent in the last Newsweek poll,
the magazine said.
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- Of the 1,002 adults polled by telephone Nov. 10-11, 60
percent disapprove of the way Bush is managing the economy and 73 percent
disapprove of his handling of the price of oil, the magazine said. The
poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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- When asked if Bush ``is honest and ethical,'' 50 percent
of the respondents disagreed and 42 percent agreed. When asked if the phrase
described Cheney, 55 percent disagreed and 29 percent agreed, Newsweek
said.
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- A total of 54 percent of those polled said they believed
that someone in the Bush administration acted unethically during a probe
into who revealed the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporters
in July 2003. The disclosure came after Plame's husband publicly criticized
the Iraq war. Libby on Nov. 3 pleaded not guilty to charges against him
in the case.
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