Bush's real approval rating

I came across a link to this blog post from bartcop.com. Here's an excerpt:

The party affiliation question is directly related to your views on the President. If you like the guy, you’ll say you approve of him and identify yourself as a Republican. Conversely, if you think Bush is dumb as a stump then you’ll identify yourself as a Dem or Independent.

But lets looks a little closer at those numbers. Lets see… 1018 people were polled and 34% sayed they approved. That’s a total of 347 people. But, lets consider the fact that during the height of Watergate, even Nixon had 25% approval. So, no matter who is President, I contend 25% of the people polled are gonna approve of them. 25% of 1018 is 255. That means of the 347 who approved of Bush 255 would’ve approved of him no matter what. Lets throw those 255 out of our sample of 1018. That leaves 763 total people polled. Of those 763, 92 approved (347-255) that is a whopping 12% approval rating!

He makes a good point. There is a percentage of people out there that approve of President Bush simply because he has an "R" next to his name and no matter how much he screws up they'll continue to support him. If the Democrats would show some courage they'd go on all of the news shows and hammer that point home. In many ways President Bush is even worse than Nixon.