(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Public support for George W. Bush remains low in the United States, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 31 per cent of respondents approve of their president’s performance.

Bush—a Republican—earned a second four-year term in the November 2004 presidential election. The U.S. president’s approval rating has not surpassed the 40 per cent mark in a national survey since December 2006.

In November 2007, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and leaders from the United States, Israel and several Arab countries attended an international conference on Middle East affairs in Annapolis, Maryland. The meeting was brokered by Bush. On Nov. 27, Abbas and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert announced they would work towards having a peace treaty signed by the end of 2008, which would include the creation of a Palestinian state.

On Jan. 6, Bush discussed his trip to the Middle East, saying, "I think the outlines, the definition of a (Palestinian) state can be achieved. The implementation of a state will be subject to a road map. In other words, there’s a lot of work that has to be done. Palestinian security forces have to be reformed—which we’re helping with, by the way. The entrepreneurial class of people has to be encouraged with new capital. The institutions of government need to be strengthened. And so the state will come into being, subject to, but the first step is to—here’s what a state will look like. And I believe we can get that done by the time I leave office."

Bush’s term will end on Jan. 20, 2009.

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,430 American adults, conducted from Dec. 19 to Dec. 30, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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