Better Copy Editors Please
Misleading (to say the least):
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
That makes it sound like FDR was an extraordinarily unpopular president. He wasn't. What they mean is that presidential popularity polls began since he was president.
That's the sort of thing a competent editor catches.
Now for the good bit:
President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.[...]
The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.
Furthermore, ARG pegs George's approval rating at 22%.
272 days.
.
