Bush's Two-Month Losing Streak

It's actually been two straight months since any single poll has shown Bush's approval ratings rise.

CNN/Opinion Research Corp. released a poll dated 5/6/07 which showed Bush with a 38% approval rating. a two-point gain.

Since then, not one of the more than dozen polls quoted on Pollkatz or Pollingreport.com has shown him gaining even a single point. Not one.

The only exception is probably Rasmussen, because they poll almost daily, but even that poll shows him on a losing streak. (Rasmussen is not one of the polls quoted in my two polling sources.)

Before this, Bush's approval rating seemed to be flatlining, emboldening Jim Pinkerton to write a column claiming that Bush was "hanging in there in the polls." He even cited a one-year average job approval gain from 34.6% to 35.6%!

Pinkerton made the same mistake as a lot of liberal observers: that Bush has a mythical core of supporters who approve of him no matter what. The first time I heard that theory, it was a liberal who figured he could never go lower than 40%.

I don't know how low Bush can go, but I do know one thing. There is no bottom here.