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New York State voters disapprove 67 - 29 percent of the job President George W. Bush is doing, the lowest approval rating ever measured for this President. Republican voters approve 61 - 33 percent, while Democrats disapprove 88 - 9 percent and independent voters disapprove 69 - 28 percent.

President Bush's previous low point was a 61 - 33 percent disapproval in a May 5 Quinnipiac University poll.

"President Bush's low approval rating in New York mirrors lows Quinnipiac University polls have found in neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania over the last 10 days," Carroll said.

By a 64 - 31 percent margin, New York State voters say going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.

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his CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the President. Americans' outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few months.

A growing number of Americans want U.S. troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible, rather than stay the course, and the highest percentage ever thinks the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. When given a set of options for paying for rebuilding the hurricane-racked Gulf Coast, only one — taking money from the Iraq War — gets majority support.

President George W. Bush's overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even his signature issue, terrorism, are also at all-time lows. More Americans than at any time since he took office think he does not share their priorities.

The public's concerns affect their view of the state of the country. 69 percent of Americans say things in the U.S. are pretty seriously off on the wrong track — the highest number since CBS News started asking the question in 1983. Today, just 26 percent say things are going in the right direction.

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