Bush's 26% approval rating in Michigan is the lowest of his presidency.

Michiganders question Bush -- new poll shows "one of the lowest marks since polling was invented"

Majorities doubt president's strategy in Iraq, threat to peace if United States withdraws

February 2, 2007
BY KATHLEEN GRAY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Clear majorities of Michiganders say President George W. Bush's new Iraq strategy won't work, and they doubt that pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq would increase the risk of terrorist attacks in the United States, a Detroit Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll shows.

That's not the only bad news for the president in Michigan. One in four adults in the state approves of the job Bush is doing, but only slightly more people are confident that the new Democratic majority in Congress is doing any better, the poll shows.

Metro Detroiters are even more dissatisfied with Bush's policies and performance.

Bush's 26% approval rating in Michigan is the lowest of his presidency. Nationally, Bush's approval rating has dipped below 30% only twice since he took office in 2001, both within the last year but neither as low as 26%. His approval rating was 84% in Michigan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"It's one of the lowest marks since polling was invented," said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., the Des Moines, Iowa, polling firm that conducted the survey.

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