President Bush's overall job approval rating "has continued to decline," according to the latest CBS News poll. Just 41% approve of the job he is doing as president, while 52% disapprove -- "the lowest overall job rating of his presidency."
"As concern about the situation in Iraq grows, 65 percent now say the country is on the wrong track — matching the highest number ever recorded in CBS News Polls, which began asking this question in the mid-1980's. Only 30 percent currently say things in this country are headed in the right direction."
"The last time the percentage that said the country was on the wrong track was as high as it is now was back in November 1994. Then, Republicans swept into control of both houses of Congress for the first time in decades."
Update: "President Bush's approval rating remains virtually unchanged from the record low of his presidency two weeks ago," according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll.
Josh Marshall: "The 41% approval for President Bush in the CBS poll is pretty bad. But I hear the internals -- the details of the poll -- are even worse."
Update II: "For the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, fewer than half of Americans, 47 percent, approve of Bush's overall job performance, while more, 50 percent, disapprove. The president's approval rating matches Gerald Ford's in the spring before his narrow loss in the 1976 presidential election."
