66% of Americans Think Bush Doing Poor or "Only Fair" Job

A new Harris Interactive poll shows American sentiment about the situation in Iraq remains generally gloomy, with fewer than a quarter of Americans saying they are confident U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful.

For the first time, a majority of Americans (53%) feels that military action in Iraq was the wrong thing to do, according to the survey of 1,833 U.S. adults, compared with 34% who feel it was right.

At the same time, 66% of U.S. adults now say President Bush is doing a "poor" or "only fair" job of handling Iraq, while 32% say he is doing an "excellent" or "pretty good" job. That's little change from a September Harris poll that found 65% rated Mr. Bush negatively and 34% rated him positively.

(I am really, Really, REALLY blown away by the 32% who say he is doing an excellent or pretty good job. HUH? What exactly is he good at?)