The latest polling is now available from the Gallup Organization, and it doesn't bode particularly for the President. In fact, George W. Bush has once again dipped to a new record low approval for the poll -- 37 percent -- and as CNN.com notes, the rest of the data from the poll isn't much better for the White House or the Republican Party.

In the poll, 56 percent of registered voters said they would be likely to vote against a local candidate supported by Bush, while 34 percent said the opposite.

Only 9 percent said their first choice in next year's elections would be a Republican who supports Bush on almost every major issue.

Forty-six percent said the country would be better off if Congress were controlled by Democrats, while 34 percent backed a GOP majority.

USA Today's Susan Page has more on the effects of these numbers.

G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist and director of the non-partisan Keystone Poll in Pennsylvania, says he already sees Republican officeholders in the state react to Bush's drop in popularity. "More and more Republicans will begin to separate themselves from the president and establish independent positions," he predicts.

Last week, Republican moderates in the House rebelled against a White House-backed spending bill, and GOP leaders had to withdraw a Bush tax package in Senate.

If Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress couldn't whip up support for tax cuts and budget cuts last week, I'm not sure how they will be able to get the votes now or any time soon. With numbers like these -- only 34 percent of the public saying they would support a candidate backed by Bush -- moderates will be running from, rather than to, the party line. So whatever nominal control the Republicans had over the Congress, increasingly in the House of Representatives, could be gone long before the 2006 elections.*