The Daily Background

Another poll has been released by American polling firm Harris Interative for the extremely editorially conservative Wall Street Journal. The article itself is paywall restricted (which is a bit odd, since previous poll writeups for WSJ haven’t been… it may be open to the public for free after a period of time I guess), but WSJ’s Washington Wire blog summarizes:

President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January.

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This trend has declined every month since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction.

This makes Harris (WSJ & NBC) the first polling firm to put the President in the 20s range. We’ll see if Gallup (NYT & USAT), Ipsos (AP), CBS (CBS & NYT), FOX (FOX), ABC (ABC & WaPo) and Opinion Research Corp (CNN) follow Harris into the 20% waters.

(Am I missing any big polling firms? Who does Rasmussen generally poll for?).

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