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Bush support rating plummets
12/05/2006 19:35 - (SA)
Washington - Only 29% of Americans believe United States President George W Bush is doing a good job, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released on Friday.
The poll is the latest tally to indicate a slump in public support for the US leader, as his Republican party heads into the campaign for mid-term elections in November.
In the Wall Street Journal poll, released in the newspaper's online edition, Bush has lost six percentage points in a month.
Iraq remains the main concern.
Twenty-eight percent of Americans say it is one of the two most important topics - up from 23% in April.
This was followed by immigration (16%) and the price of petrol (14%).
Only 24% of the 1 003 people surveyed between May 3 and May 8 said they believed the US was "heading in the right direction".
According to the Journal, 69% said "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track".
Bush is closing in on the unpopularity levels of former president Richard Nixon (24%) at the moment of his 1974 resignation over the Watergate scandal.
- AFP
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