From the latest Harris Poll:
President Bush’s latest ratings are 24 percent positive and fully 75 percent negative. Previously, his worst numbers were 26 percent positive and 72 percent negative in April of this year. His ratings are substantially worse than those of any president, except for Jimmy Carter (22c-77 percent in July 1980), since Harris first started measuring them in 1963.
Vice President Cheney’s ratings are even worse, 18 percent positive and 74 percent negative, compared to his previous low of 21 percent positive, 74 percent negative last July.
Secretary of State Rice’s ratings are much better than those of the President and Vice President, but also have fallen to their lowest point ever, 39 percent positive and 54 percent negative, compared to 42 percent positive and 51 percent negative last October.
Only 14 percent of the public think the things in the country are going in the right direction and fully 80 percent think they are on the wrong track. These compare to the previous worst numbers in President George W. Bush’s term, 75 percent thought things were on the wrong track in April. The highest number of people who said the country was on the wrong track was 81 percent in June of 1992 during the term of the first President Bush.
However, this dismal news for the administration has done nothing to help the Democrats. Most people seem to wish “a plague on all your houses”. Congress, which of course is controlled by the Democrats, gets its worst ratings ever, only 13 percent positive and fully 83 percent negative. Its previous low point was in December of last year when it was rated 17 percent positive and 79 percent negative. And, Speaker Pelosi’s ratings have fallen to 24 percent positive, 57 percent negative compared to her previous low of 25 percent positive and 61 percent negative in February.
I’m not surprised that the poll numbers have gone down.
But you’re making the same mistake that most people make. Congress has two chambers, right? In order to do anything, bills have to pass both chambers. We may have a majority in the House, but we have not had a majority in the Senate. IMO when people say we have a Democratic congress, this is only half of the story.
Hmmm… can’t help but notice that the lowest rating, Congress’ 13% was conspicuously left out of your headline… is that because it is controlled by Democrats…
Pelosi = 24%, too… OK… I get what the blog is about now…
A follow up question should be asked about Congress. Is your dim view of Congress (and Pelosi), due to Pelosi’s statement that “Impeachment is off the table”? Had they the stones to Chimpeach, the ratings would be somewhere about 80%. Worst pResident in History, and the biggest enables ever.