Our boy Georgie Porgie isn't doing so well, and the numbers reflect it. You can find a breakdown of
presidential approval ratings by state here, as of May 15th, 2006. I took the liberty of graphing things for you, so you can see the general trend. Bright blue/red bars indicate states who voted for Bush in the 2004 elections. Darker colors signify Kerry. Of note, Missouri, Ohio, and Arkansas seem to have made some progress in pulling their head out of their asses and only
three states approve of Bush more than they disapprove: Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming with net approvals of 7%, 5%, and 1% respectively. Accounting for state populations, the weighted average over the entire United States is a 64% dissapproval rating. Ouch.
FYI, it's hard to tell because they're at the top of the graph, but RI and NY have the lowest approval ratings both at 23%.
Who knows what approval rating Bush will leave office with, but looking back at recent presidents ratings at the end of their reigns, it looks like he's in line to be among the absolute worst:
- Bill Clinton 65%
- Ronald Reagan 64%
- Dwight Eisenhower 59%
- John F. Kennedy 63%
- George Bush (elder) 56%
- Gerald Ford 53%
- Lyndon Johnson 49%
- Jimmy Carter 34%
- Richard Nixon 24%
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