Insider Polling: Bush Hits Rock Bottom In Nation's Redest State

(2/2/07) An InsiderAdvantage / Majority Opinion Research poll shows 60 percent of Georgians disapprove of President Bush's job performance.

Q. Do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as President?

Approve: 38%
Disapprove: 60%
Undecided/Don't Know: 2%

The poll was conducted Jan 29-31 among 500 registered voters, and was weighted for age, race, gender and political affiliation. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.

InsiderAdvantage/ Creators Syndicate’s Matt Towery comments:

"These are by far the worst numbers we have ever seen for President Bush in Georgia.

"Georgia has been thought of as 'the most Republican state in the nation. given the control of the party in every partisan branch of state government and its high number of members of Congress and two GOP US Senators.

"For Bush to be losing the support of this state by such a crushing margin suggests there is evidence that his support among Republicans is becoming softer and softer. If this slide continues, his unpopularity could cripple the GOP nationally in 2008.

"Oddly enough, approval ratings for Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue and the direction in which Georgia is headed is the exact reverse--with high numbers for the GOP in the Peach State. So, it seems Bush is on an island on his own, one which is on the verge of sinking."