Mr. 29 Percent

President Bush makes a statement on the government's intelligence activities at the White House, May 11, 2006. (Jim Young/Reuters)

Both Americablog, and The Daily Kos have posted this story on their sites. The source story is from The Wall Street Journal:

President Bush'’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an "“excellent or pretty good" job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January.

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say "“things in the country are going in the right direction," while 69% say "“things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track."” This trend has declined every month since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March.

The Harris poll comes two days after a downbeat assessement of Bush in a New York Times/CBS News poll. The Times, in analyzing the results, said '"Americans have a bleaker view of the country'’s direction than at any time in more than two decades."'”

Please remember, this poll was taken before the USA Today story came out revealing the NSA creation of a database of American phone numbers for domestic spying. So these results do not even take into account the American public's outrage over this latest domestic spying scandal from the Bush administration. You can bet that next week's Gallup, Zogby, ABC News / Washington Post polls will probably also reflect a drop in Bush's approval ratings as a result of this latest scandal.

Mr. 29 Percent.