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Bush's Declining Approval Ratings

Our friend Rungu, an economist who's very busy and can't update his blog as often as we'd like, has prepared some great charts illustrating the decline in Bush's approval ratings over time (as measured by the Gallup polls). In fact, his approval ratings have been constantly trending downward since he was elected, except for large upward spikes just after 9/11 and the onset of the war with Iraq. So:

• Chart 1 shows the decline from February 2001 to March 2003.
• Chart 2 shows the decline from March 2003 to August 23, 2003.
• In case you want to make your own charts, here's the raw data, presented as a downloadable Excel spreadsheet, an interactive browser-ready spreadsheet (use IE; might not work), or importable comma-separated text.

Update: New poll from the Daily News seems to support this trend, with many NY'ers disapproving of W.

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