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Overall approval rating for President Bush - July 04.
Polling data from the Washington Post during the 2004 presidential campaign. See the September 2004 update.
What's surprising about the data is that in general, Americans disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq and with his handling of the economy (difference in approval and disapproval is greater than the margin of error) ... and yet they are equally split, statistically, as to his overall handling of the job of the Presidency.
On July 11, 2004, only 48 percent of those polled approved of how President Bush is handling the White House and 50 percent disapproved. In comparison, at the end of his term, President George H. W. Bush had an approval rating of 56 percent.