Are Americans Finally Waking Up?

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A new public opinion poll shows President Bush's job approval rating is at its lowest level since he took office five years ago. In recent U.S. political history, only former presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon had lower approval ratings.

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush`s job approval rating has fallen to 29 percent in a new Harris Interactive poll.

It is the lowest job approval rating of Bush`s presidency, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone, 29 percent said Bush was doing an 'excellent or pretty good' -- down from 35 percent in the Harris Interactive poll conducted in April. Bush`s job approval rating had been 43 percent in the Harris Interactive poll conducted in January.

About one-quarter of U.S. adults said 'things in the country are going in the right direction,' while 69 percent said 'things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.' The trend has declined every month since January, when 33 percent said the nation was heading in the right direction, the Journal reported.

The Harris poll results came on the same day that The Washington Post reported on a Gallup poll that showed Republican support for the Bush administration has fallen by 13 percent in the past two weeks based on spending policies.