Chris Bowers has a good catch. The Gallup poll released yesterday shows George W. Bush with a  25% approval rating/70% disapproval, which puts him at the worst net approval rating for any president ever since Gallup started polling presidential popularity.

Bush has both the highest overall disapproval, and the lowest overall net approval / disapproval in any Gallup poll taken, ever. Keep in mind that this is a poll that has been functioning for more than 71 years.

While Truman and Nixon had even lower approval ratings (22% and 24% respectively) their net approval/disapproval ratings were slightly better than Bush's (Chris has the full historical chart), hence making Bush officially the least popular president ever.

Interestingly, -45% looks downright popular compared to some other recent polls. According to this chart over at Polling Report, the most recent Time and CNN polls both show Bush with -50% net approval and CBS has had Bush's approval rating at an all time low of 22% for two polls in a row.

As a sidenote, while the new NBC/WSJ poll gives Bush a slightly better 29 approve/66 disapprove, Chuck Todd's partisan breakdown of the numbers show how pathetic this number actually is.

As we mentioned above, Bush's approval rating in the NBC/WSJ poll is 29%. But it becomes just 10% when you exclude Republicans. That is just stunning. Remember, that 10% job approval is among Dems and indies. Sure, Democrats are anti-Bush, but indies are a 50-50 split between Obama and McCain, and they are pretty anti-Bush too.

Update [2008-10-7 15:4:26 by Jonathan Singer]: Ah, the milestones... It seems like it was just yesterday (well, back in April) that Bush set the all-time mark for the highest disapproval rating. Who'da thunk it that he'd be able to set another disapproval record -- and so soon?