Harris poll has Bush approval in the 20s

As I've noted on several occasions, many Washington insiders seem to consider 28-29% to be the lowest possible number a president could receive, that being the number of hardcore partisans who're going to support a president no matter what. On the other hand, Cheney has been floating around 20% for quite a while. This probably puts Bush on a level with Truman in his darkest hour-- any more and he'll be the new record holder for "most-reviled president" in well over a century... if not in the entire history of the nation.

President Bush's approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll.

Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an "excellent or pretty good" job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. It compares with 71% of Americans who said Mr. Bush is doing an "only fair or poor" job, up from 63% in April.

Meanwhile, approval ratings for Congress are also sliding, as 18% of Americans say Congress is doing an "excellent or pretty good job," compared with 80% who say Congress is doing an "only fair or poor" job. In February, 25% of Americans gave Congress a positive rating and 71% gave a negative rating.

Elsewhere, roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say "things in the country are going in the right direction," while 69% say "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." This trend has declined every month since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction.