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Four bang worthy, indeed:

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. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%.

Breaking the 30% barrier is huge...few presidents have ever fallen so far. People are finally starting to wake up and realize we need new leadership, in all branches of government.

Time to bust out the champagne and make a toast to taking our country back!

More good news.

Be sure to check out the other memo too. Thanks, Taegan!

New poll numbers are in and they're not good for Bush. Check out the raw data here.

From the tape:

WASHINGTON — President Bush's public standing, on a downward trend all summer, has slid to its lowest point since the September 11 attacks two years ago, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. (Related story:Poll results)

Due in large part to an economy that continues to lose jobs, despite positive indicators, and a situation in Iraq that is messier and more costly than Bush predicted, he is taking a big share of the blame.

A thin majority, 52%, approve of the overall job he is doing, down from this year's high of 71% in mid-April, when the war in Iraq still had a glow of victory.

It is an even farther fall for the president from the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, when his job approval hit a high of 90%.

On the economy, Bush gets his lowest mark, 45% approval.

Democratic pollster Mark Mellman says, "Bush ... has benefited from circumstances beyond his control. Now reality is setting in."

Bush's slippage suggests that if the election were held today, he would have a tough fight. Among registered voters, he holds a slim 47%-43% lead over an unnamed Democrat. That's down from a more comfortable 51%-39% lead he held two weeks ago.

In a nutshell, Bush is looking very vulnerable and both Dean and Clark are making huge strides upwards in the national consciousness. Put the two together and 43 will go down easy.

You probably already saw it, but just in case you missed the boat, here's the latest scoop from Zogby: Bush is extremely vulnerable! Read the whole bit, but the important numbers to remember are that a majority of people (52%) now want someone else in the White House, with only 40% voting to keep him in.

As usual, the full nuanced view can be found over at Pollkatz which includes Zogby's numbers along with the rest of them. Zogby has been consistently down on Bush, but the line he draws is clear: the President's numbers haven't hit the floor yet. It seems as if there's no end to the troubles ahead.

According to this new Zogby poll, Bush's support has dropped to the lowest level since 9-11. And in an even better sign, Bush's re-elect numbers have actually fallen below half. More people want a new face than they want to keep Bush around. A bad sign for the GOP but a good sign for the country.

First off, let's take a brief look at some Presidential Poll data located right here. Yes, I'm refraining from image swiping. It's better to play nice, after all. From the data, it appears that Bush is enjoying a brief blip up from the war despite an overall steady descent, post September 11th. Given the amount of time left between now and the election, it would take something absurdly bad to take place to boost Bush back up again. So I'm not worried. Have a look.

Wow. Maybe it's the blue skies outside or the chipotle inside me, but the news seems to be taking a turn for the better. First off, Graham and Dean News: namely, that Graham is about to declare and Dean has picked up some key Hollywood votes, which means more money. Either guy would go a long way to making this country a better place. But the icing on the cake? How about Bush's falling poll numbers? That's right. 43 is back to the same level he was at before September 11th. True, there could be a wartime bounce, but I think people are finally starting to grasp that the POTUS is inept at both domestic and international policy, whether it's insulting our longtime allies, shortchanging firemen, or ignoring the real threat looming in North Korea.

But hey, at least we got a few real terrorists, right? Maybe we should focus on Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah or any of the other number of organizations with far stealthier capabilities than Iraq. Maybe we should focus on Syria and stop isolating Iran, perhaps...