When comes to being unpopular, George W. Bush is not only an international trendsetter, he is a record breaker. Gallup has been polling on the approval rating of presidents since 1938, when Franklin Roosevelt was president, but in those seven decades, no president has been as unpopular as Bush has:
Among Republicans, 66 percent approve and 32 percent disapprove.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69 percent disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

The previous record of 67 percent was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

(Bush also recently surpassed Truman as the president with the longest losing streak of unpopularity, having gone 39 months now without an approval rating over 50 percent, breaking Truman’s record of 38 months.)

The most disturbing number inside the Gallup poll is the tremendous support Republicans still give Bush, whose record over the seven years and three months he has been in office includes not a single accomplishment worth noting:

Views of Bush divide sharply along party lines. Among Republicans, 66 percent approve and 32 percent disapprove. Disapproval is nearly universal — 91 percent — among Democrats. Of independents, 23 percent approve, 72 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing.

Another record in the poll: 63 percent of Americans now say invading Iraq was a mistake.