“Mr. Bush received a 66% disapproval rating in The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll for June, tying his own record for the highest ever for any president in the Journal/NBC poll. The previous highs were a 56% rating for Mr. Bush’s father in late 1992, and a 50% score for President Clinton in 1993. In the long-running Gallup Poll, Mr. Bush’s disapproval rating reached 69% this spring — a record going back to the Truman administration.
the white house reaction:
“White House aides contend that polling methods fail to sufficiently sample their sympathizers, noting that the gap between self-identifying Democrats and Republicans tends to close dramatically in Election Day exit polling.
Translation: Had you interviewed more people that like Bush, and not done some statistical sampling method used by 100% of the other polling companies, those numbers wouldn’t have been so low