Bleak Mood Drags Down Support for Bush to 29% | The Agonist: "Wall Street Journal - An increasingly gloomy political environment has soured Americans on President Bush and Congress, scrambled the Republicans' 2008 field, and strengthened Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
As the Iraq war drags on and Washington is embroiled in inconclusive policy debates, just 19% of Americans now say the nation is headed in the right direction. More than three times that proportion, 68%, say things in the U.S. are 'off on the wrong track.' That's approaching the most pessimistic mood in the history of the WSJ/NBC poll.
At the same time, Mr. Bush's job approval rating has fallen to his lowest-ever level of 29%, while 66% disapprove his handling of the presidency. The telephone survey of 1,008 adults, conducted June 8 to 11 by Republican pollster Neil Newhouse and his Democratic counterpart Peter Hart, carries a margin for error of 3.1 percentage points..."
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