Bush giving Tricky Dick a run for the money

Today's Gallup Poll has George W. Bush's approval rating at 40% matching the Harris Poll earlier in the week.
Gallup compares Bush's approval rating with other two term presidents at this point in the second term. Eisenhower, Johnson, Reagan and Clinton were all in the low to mid 60s. The only other president near 40% was Richard Nixon who had a 34% approval rating. That was related to Watergate.
As we have said before the real significance of this may be that Republicans running for reelection in 2006 will see Bush as a liability and start distancing themselves from him making him a lame duck early in his second term. So much for political capitol.