Poll: Most See Bush Presidency a Failure

It's hardly a surprise (except in Oklahoma), but most Americans rate George W. Bush as a failed president.

Here's the bad news for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, David Addington, John Yoo and other GOP hacks and cronies:

Sixty-eight percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Sunday said that Bush's eight years in the White House were a failure, with 44 percent saying this was because of his personal shortcomings and 22 percent blaming the failure on circumstances beyond his control.

Thirty-one percent said they consider Bush's presidency a success.

Half of those polled say the United States could be better off today if Al Gore had been elected president in 2000 rather than Bush, with 27 percent saying the country would be worse off if Gore had won. Twenty-two percent say things would be about the same.