Bush Legacy: A Tale of Two Terms
For George W. Bush, it was the worst of terms. Sequentially hammered by the Iraq war, the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina, soaring gasoline prices and, as the coup de grace, the current economic crisis, Bush endured his second term without once attaining majority public approval – a feat unseen in 70 years of presidential approval polls. Along the way he reached the highest disapproval yet recorded and missed the lowest-ever approval by a single percentage point.
See the new ABC News polling analysis here: http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/BushLegacy/Story?id=6567339&page=1
See also Bush job approval charts here: http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Bush_Retrospective_Charts.pdf