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Gov. Jim Gibbons, under an FBI investigation for his relationship to a defense contractor while he was a congressman, has a 30 percent job approval rating after his first four months in office, according to a poll published Sunday. The statewide poll conducted for the Reno Gazette-Journal found that 47 percent disapproved of his performance and 23 percent were unsure. The survey of 600 likely voters was conducted April 16 through Wednesday by Research 2000 of Washington, D.C. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points either way. Asked if they could vote again for governor, 39 percent...

APPROVAL RATINGS FOR CONGRESS DIPPING (AGAIN) Many of the newbies rode into town and thought they were going to shine like radiant little stars. After all, they had been promised --and had promised the taxpayers back home -- that they were about to solve all the problems of the western world. And maybe even Antarctica, since that was a subject that also warmed their hearts. Little did they realize that there would actually be people in Washington who did not agree with them. Nobody ever told them that. Here they thought they'd be insulated from those mean old Republicans and...

The Quinnipiac University telephone poll conducted last June 13 disclosed that Bob Casey's lead over Sen. Rick Santorum since October was 52% to 34% (with sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points). Santorum's job approval rating has also dropped to 38%. Base on the poll results, Clay Richards (Quinnipiac poll assistant director) said, "Sen. Santorum appears to be his own worst enemy in his battle for re-election."

Is President Bush done or can he make a comeback? A new Gallup poll has the president's job approval rating at just 31 percent, the lowest ever for him. Only 52 percent of conservatives approve of the job Mr. Bush is doing and that's his base. Only four presidents have scored lower approval ratings since the Gallup poll began tabulating Oval Office performance: Truman, Nixon, Carter and Bush the elder. The question now is: Can Bush the younger regain the confidence of the American people? Now there's no clear answer to that question. But one thing is certain: Mr. Bush...

APPROVAL RATINGS FOR ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS AS OF 03/23/06 SORT ► ALPHABETICAL BY STATE ALPHABETICAL BY SENATOR'S LAST NAME BY HIGHEST 'NET JOB APPROVAL' BY HIGHEST APPROVAL     Sorted    ▼   SORTED ALPHABETICALLY BY STATE  APPROVAL RATINGS FOR ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS AS OF 03/23/06 03/23/06 Net 3/06 Approval Tracking Graphs # State U.S. Senator Party Sr/Jr Approve Disapprove 1 AL Shelby, Richard R Sr 59% 31% 28% Track AL Sr 2 AL Sessions, Jeff R Jr 58% 31% 27% Track AL Jr 3 AK Stevens, Ted R Sr 65% 29% 36% Track AK Sr 4 AK Murkowski, Lisa...

SORTED BY 2/06 'NET APPROVAL' (approval minus disapproval)   MEDIA SPONSOR APPROVAL RATINGS FOR ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS AS OF 02/21/06 02/21/06 Net 2/06 Approval Tracking Graphs # State U.S. Senator Party Sr/Jr Approve Disapprove 1 AZ McCain, John R Sr 72% 24% 48% Track AZ Sr KPNX-TV 1 IL Obama, Barack D Jr 71% 23% 48% Track IL Jr KSDK-TV 3 ME Collins, Susan R Jr 71% 24% 47% Track ME Jr WCSH-TV WLBZ-TV 3 SD Johnson, Tim D Sr 71% 24% 47% Track SD Sr 5 RI Reed, Jack D Sr 68% 22% 46% Track RI Sr WLNE-TV...

APPROVAL RATING FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH  (Released 06/28/05) SORTED ALPHBETICALLY BY STATE  (scroll down for other sorts) 05/05 06/05 Change 05/05 to 06/05 # State '04 ECV Approve Disapprove Approve Disapprove Approve Disapprove 1 Alabama Bush 50% 44% 54% 41% +4% -3% 2 Alaska Bush 50% 44% 53% 43% +3% -1% 3 Arizona Bush 44% 51% 46% 49% +2% -2% 4 Arkansas Bush 41% 53% 44% 52% +3% -1% 5 California Kerry 39% 54% 37% 58% -2% +4% 6 Colorado Bush 43% 51% 45% 52% +2% +1% 7 Connecticut Kerry 40% 54% 37% 58% -3% +4% 8 Delaware...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' views of the war in Iraq have turned more negative in recent weeks, continuing a trend that began shortly after the Iraqi elections. Fifty-seven percent of Americans now say it was not worth going to war in Iraq -- the most negative results Gallup has recorded on this measure. A majority of Americans now say things are going badly for the United States in Iraq, a switch from the post-election period in Iraq, when a majority gave a positive assessment of the situation there. Americans are more divided as to whether or not it was a...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Last week's CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll measured the lowest job approval rating of George W. Bush's presidency to date -- 45%, one point lower than his previous low. While not good news for Bush, there are some silver linings for him in that other presidents' lowest approval ratings were much lower and that Bush's average rating while in office remains among the most positive for recent presidents. Nevertheless, Bush's public support is significantly lower than support for all other two-term presidents at similar points in their second terms. Gallup's March 21-23 poll, conducted during the controversy over government...

Between January 14 and 16, 51 percent of survey participants expressed approval of Bush's performance as president. But 57 percent of the 1,010 respondents during the February 4 thru 6 poll stated that they approved of how the he does his job. The margin of error for the telephone survey of all adults is plus or minus three percentage points. Last week, 40 percent of participants said they disapproved of Bush's handling of his job, and 3 percent of the people stated they did not have an opinion. While the responses to some questions -- like how the president is...

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Exactly one week ago, on Jabnuary 28th, the daily Rasmussen tracking poll of President Bush’s job approval showed Bush with a negative 46%-52% job approval split. After last weekend’s wildly successful elections ni Iraq and equally successful State of the Union speech, the numbers have turned around completely. BUSH JOB APPROVAL Approve 54% Disapprove 45% But the Democrats don’t need to worry because they will always be able to claim that Bush is the first President to have a net job loss during his first…what?…that is no longer true either? Oh never mind. Well they will at least have Howard...

President Bush's picks for the top jobs in his second-term cabinet are getting mixed reviews from likely voters, with Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice's nomination receiving the support of nearly six-in-ten Americans—while a majority disapprove of the job performance of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The survey of 1004 likely voters was conducted from January 18 through 21, 2005, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.2 percentage points. The poll finds that 58% approve of Rice's appointment as Secretary of State, replacing retired General Colin Powell. Additionally, a majority (53%) say they approve of the job Rice has done...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush got high marks for his handling of the tsunami disaster, and his job approval rating went up in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday, but most of those surveyed had doubts about his call to overhaul Social Security. Bush's job approval rating went up to 52 percent in the poll, which was conducted Friday through Sunday in phone calls to 1,008 adult Americans. That's an improvement of 3 percentage points from the last CNN poll, taken in mid-December. Another 44 percent said they disapproved of his job performance, down 2 percentage points from the December...

President George W. Bush's popularity rose to 55 percent in a poll released, three weeks after he won a November 2 presidential election. The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll also showed 42 percent of Americans do not believe Bush is doing a good job. A Gallup poll conducted November 7-10, a week after the Republican leader defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry, showed that 53 percent of Americans approved of Bush's handling of his job. Only 48 percent approved of his performance in a survey taken October 29-31. Monday's poll shows that outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell is the Bush administration's most...

This is an examination of Gallup polls in August for the last 7 Presidential elections that involve incumbent Presidents.  The approval rating for the President and the horserace numbers will be included.The range for this data is 1972-2004.I will update approval ratings every month until the election.Note: During the 1970s Presidential approval ratings were not measured between the months of June and November. In a poll conducted 6/20/1972-6/20/1972, Richard Nixon measured a 56% approval rating.In a mid August poll Richard Nixon led challenger George McGovern by a margin of 64%-30% In a poll conducted 6/8/1976-6/8/1976, Gerald Ford measured a 45% approval rating.In...

Poll puts Bush at ominously low level Richard W. Stevensonand Janet Elder/NYT NYT Saturday, July 17, 2004 But race remains in effect deadlocked WASHINGTON President George W. Bush's approval ratings are at ominously low levels for an incumbent at this point in a presidential campaign, but the race remains essentially deadlocked as Senator John Kerry heads toward the Democratic convention and his best opportunity to make a strong impression on voters, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. The poll suggested that the country was as deeply divided as ever, leaving both sides struggling to alter the campaign's basic...

Bush's ratings still in low range of presidencyPRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup survey finds Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry enjoying a slight lead over President George W. Bush, while Bush's approval ratings remain relatively unchanged, but for the most part in negative territory. The president's continuing strength is in the public's perception of how well he is fighting the war on terrorism, while his performance ratings in other areas -- the economy, foreign affairs, the situation in Iraq, energy policy, and prescription drugs for older Americans -- all elicit higher disapproval than approval.The poll, conducted June 3-6, overlapped news of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush's approval rating is at an all-time low and fewer than half of Americans now believe invading Iraq was the right thing to do, according to a CBS/New York Times poll released on Wednesday. The poll, with a sampling error of 3 percentage points, was conducted among 1,042 adults nationwide from Friday to Tuesday during a spate of fierce fighting in Iraq. More than 115 U.S. soldiers have been killed in combat this month. The poll said the Iraq war appeared to have hurt assessments of Bush -- his overall approval rating (46 percent), his...

Half of the American public currently approves of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president? ± 3% Margin of Error March 8-11, 2004 Sample Size=1,005

<p>In January, CBS News reported that President Bush's approval was "sinking." This month, USA Today has said it was hitting "a new low." And there is no doubt that the president's approval rating has fallen, down from nearly 90% right after 9/11 to about 51% today.</p>

Kentucky voters like Republican Jim Bunning and the job he is doing as a first-term U.S. senator, but he has yet to cinch re-election, according to The Courier-Journal's latest Bluegrass Poll. Forty-one percent of likely voters in the Nov. 4 election said they would vote to re-elect Bunning, and only 13 percent said they would vote to replace him. Nineteen percent said they would consider voting for someone else, and 27 percent said they didn't know or were undecided. The error margin of the poll, which surveyed 658 likely voters by telephone from Jan. 30 through Feb. 4, is 3.8...

Majority would vote to re-elect Bush PRINCETON, NJ -- President Bush enters the year in which he is seeking re-election in a historically strong position in terms of public opinion. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 60% of Americans approving of the job Bush is doing as president, and a majority approves of his handling of both the economy and foreign affairs. Furthermore, a majority of registered voters continue to say they would vote to re-elect Bush as president, and in a head-to-head matchup with current Democratic front-runner Howard Dean, Bush leads by 20 percentage points. Historical Gallup data show...

<p>President Bush's standing with the public has improved since his surprise Thanksgiving trip to Iraq amid signs of a stronger economy and following congressional passage of a prescription drug benefit under Medicare.</p>

NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush's job approval rating dropped to 61 percent in the latest Newsweek Poll, down from 65 percent earlier this month. Twenty-eight percent of those polled disapproved of the way Bush is doing his job, up from 26 percent in the last Newsweek poll taken on May 1-2. The president received his highest ratings from handling foreign policy and national security, but much lower ratings for his handling of domestic issues. As the nation's focus has shifted from the military campaign to problems maintaining order in postwar Iraq, the Newsweek Poll found...

More than three-fourths of Americans -- including two-thirds of liberals and 70% of Democrats -- now say they support the decision to go to war. And more than four-fifths of these war supporters say they still will back the military action even if allied forces don't find evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush's overall job approval rating jumped to 68%, the highest level since last summer, and three-fourths of those polled said they trust him to make the right decisions on Iraq.

  Hail to the ChiefBy Jennifer Barrett, Newsweek Web Exclusive As the war in Iraq enters its second week, President George W. Bush's approval rating rose to 68 percent--a 15-percent increase from two weeks ago, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. Though he lags behind his father's rating during the first Gulf War--the elder Bush enjoyed an 86 percent approval rating one week into the Persian Gulf War--Bush's numbers are his highest in more than six months.THE PRESIDENT POLLED WELL for his handling of the Iraqi conflict, and respondents also gave him higher marks than in previous weeks for...

POLL ANALYSES March 24, 2003 Seventy-Two Percent of Americans Support War Against Iraq Bush approval up 13 points to 71% by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Seventy-two percent of Americans interviewed in a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Saturday and Sunday favor the war against Iraq, while 25% are opposed. Roughly the same number approve of the job President George W. Bush is doing. The percentage supporting the war is just slightly lower than the 76% approval registered last Thursday night -- the day after hostilities began -- but remains significantly higher than support levels in the weeks and months...

Poll finds voter support for McGreevey waning In face of a $5 billion budget gap, electorate disagrees on cutting services or raising taxes Tuesday, February 04, 2003 BY JEFF WHELAN Star-Ledger Staff [Trenton, NJ] -- Gov. James E. McGreevey's popularity has plummeted to an all-time low, with only one-third of New Jersey residents approving of his job performance while 46 percent disapprove, according to a new Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll.The survey also finds overwhelming support for a tax increase on families earning more than $500,000. But residents are becoming increasingly divided over whether McGreevey should cut state services or raise broad-based taxes...

Bush's Approval Rating (61%), Handling War On Terror (68%) Still High /PRNewswire/ --62 Percent Of Americans Would Support Military Action Against Iraq, But Say President Needs Congressional, International Support First 66 Percent Say It's Somewhat To Very Likely That Another Terror Attack In The U.S. Will Happen Before The End Of The Year, But Most Say They Feel Safe NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a year after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., the majority of Americans (61%) still approve of the way President George W. Bush is handling his job, according to the...

<p>Allegations of corporate fraud and questions about President Bush's own financial dealings could be eroding public confidence in the president's ability to manage the economy and look out for the interests of ordinary Americans, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.</p> <p>Three of four (76%) still approve of the overall job Bush is doing as president.</p>

Poll: Americans Say Bush Lacks Mideast Peace Plan Sat Apr 27, 4:58 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans believe President Bush (news - web sites) lacks a well thought-out plan to end violence in the Middle East and has made little or no progress toward achieving peace in the region, according to a Newsweek poll released on Saturday. The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted for Newsweek magazine on Thursday and Friday, little more than a week after Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) left the region without a cease-fire agreement between Israel...