Bush Approval Rating Highest in 13 Months, Gallup Poll Shows
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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's job approval rating rose to its highest level in 13 months, following his second inauguration, the State of the Union address and elections in Iraq, according to a poll by Cable News Network, USA Today and the Gallup Organization.
Fifty-seven percent of 1,010 adults surveyed from Feb. 4-6 approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president while 40 percent disapprove. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
It is Bush's highest job approval rating -- and lowest disapproval level -- since a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll taken in January 2004 showed Bush with a 59 percent rating.
Forty-six percent of the people polled have a favorable impression of the Democratic Party, the lowest level since at least 1992.
Bush's effort, outlined in the Feb. 2 State of the Union speech, to push for private Social Security accounts may not be resonating with the public, the poll shows. Forty-four percent of the adults polled approve of his approach to restructure the Social Security system and 50 percent disapprove.
Seventeen percent of the adults polled described the system in a ``crisis'' compared with 18 percent last month, according to Washington-based Gallup.
Fifty-seven percent of 1,010 adults surveyed from Feb. 4-6 approve of the way Bush is handling his job as president while 40 percent disapprove. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
It is Bush's highest job approval rating -- and lowest disapproval level -- since a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll taken in January 2004 showed Bush with a 59 percent rating.
Forty-six percent of the people polled have a favorable impression of the Democratic Party, the lowest level since at least 1992.
Bush's effort, outlined in the Feb. 2 State of the Union speech, to push for private Social Security accounts may not be resonating with the public, the poll shows. Forty-four percent of the adults polled approve of his approach to restructure the Social Security system and 50 percent disapprove.
Seventeen percent of the adults polled described the system in a ``crisis'' compared with 18 percent last month, according to Washington-based Gallup.
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