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"Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing, including an all-time low in his support by Republicans. Congress' approval fell to just 22 percent, equaling its poorest grade in the survey. Both marks dropped by 4 percentage points since early January."  That's from an article by Alan Fram, AP writer.

Many Americans are no longer happy with the War In Iraq, a war that began when that nation refused to let foreigners swarm their country with the right to search any building they wanted to.  If someone told the American government, "We won't attack you if you let us search every government office, business, home, etc. without a warrant," do you think Americans would have agreed?  There never was any evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, but we went in anyway, and have been in chaos ever since.

And people are getting increasingly worried about the "R word," recession, as indicated by that term moving way up in online searches and by surveys.

There's two major things that help a president's popularity and chances of getting re-elected: fears of threats from outside the country, and a booming economy within.  With the constitutional two-term limit, President Bush can't get re-elected president.  But people's opinion of the presidential administration reflect on other candidates in the same party.  But with people strongly disliking the congress as well, what does this bode for the nation?

(And by the way, isn't it ironic that America does has Weapons of Mass Destruction).

Read the article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_go_ot/bush_congress_ap_poll