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Dan Froomkin makes a puzzling claim today, writing that "President Bush's approval ratings appear to be dropping to their lowest levels ever."
But a quick look at Charles Franklin's running tabulation of all presidential approval polls on Political Arithmetik shows that this is not the case, though the trend has turned sharply downward:
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I know this is a different claim, but I think the new polls do suggest that Bush has reached his highest disapproval rating on his handling of the war on terror.
Posted by: James Bourke | October 11, 2006 at 12:10 AM