msnbc/newsweek:
“the president’s approval ratings are at their lowest point in the poll’s history—30 percent—and more than half the country (60 percent) say they wish the Bush presidency were simply over.
Half (49 percent) of all registered voters would rather see a Democrat elected president in 2008, compared to just 28 percent who’d rather see a Republican.
With Bush widely viewed as an ineffectual “lame duck” (by 71 percent of all Americans), over half (53 percent) of the poll’s respondents now say they believe history will see him as a below-average president. Only 22 percent of those polled think Bush’s decisions about Iraq and other major policy are influenced mainly by the facts; 67 percent say the president’s decisions are influenced more by his personal, subjective beliefs.
Overall, 61 percent are unsatisfied with the way things are going in America; just 30 percent are satisfied.”
