Wash. Times inflated Bush's approval ratings, falsely
portrayed unemployment rate under Bush

In an August 7 editorial headlined "Bush isn't thebad guy," The Washington Timesasserted that the president"had very high poll ratings (80 percent to 90 percent) throughout hisfirst term" and went on to say that during his tenure, he "reduced unemployment to stillrecord-levels." In fact, according to an "estimate of approval trend"provided by University of Wisconsin professor Charles Franklin,Bush's approval ratings were between 50 percent and 60 percent prior to September2001, at which point[...]

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