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Friday, February 18, 2005
Bush Disapproval Rating Back Above 50%
It didn't take long for a majority of the American people to turn their backs on the President and, more surprisingly, his cabinet. Harris Interactive has the new poll:
- President Bush’s ratings are 48 percent positive, 51 percent negative, down slightly from his November ratings of 50 percent positive and 49 percent negative.
- Vice President Dick Cheney’s ratings at 45 percent positive and 52 percent negative are also down from his 48 percent positive, 50 percent negative ratings in November.
- Condoleezza Rice, who is coming off her inaugural foreign trip as new Secretary of State, achieves a 52 to 40 percent positive rating. This is better than the President though her initial ratings are far below those of her predecessor, Colin Powell, who consistently has been the most popular member of the president’s cabinet over the last four years. As a point of comparison, Powell left office with a rating of 66 percent positive, 32 percent negative.
- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s ratings at 42 percent positive, 56 percent negative are the lowest that The Harris Poll has measured for him. These are down substantially from the 47 percent positive, 50 percent negative rating in November.
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