Bush at 31, but Kerry and Gore are even worse

President Bush's approval rating may be tanking (and with good reason), but look at these numbers for his opponents from the presidental elections:

The political situation has not helped some of the more prominent members of the Democratic Party. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, who was Mr. Bush's opponent in 2004, had a lower approval rating than Mr. Bush: 26 percent, down from 40 percent in a poll conducted right after the election.

And just 28 percent said they had a favorable view of Al Gore, one of Mr. Bush's more vocal critics.

This is even with Democrats currently being viewed more favorably than Republicans, too.

And since this is the New York Times, these numbers are buried at the bottom of the piece, of course.

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