If you're planning a summer road trip, you're gonna wanna do some research. To help inform your decision, here's a link to the latest state poll results on the president's approval rating. (And we imagine the numbers got a bit of a bump from his latest attempt to regulate immigration.) Here's a hint: don't go to Idaho or Utah. Interestingly, the first times we went to those two states we remarked that they might be the most beautiful in the country, but home to the weirdest people. Biggest discrepancy between natural beauty and scary people. Now we have some numbers to confirm. In Idaho and Utah, Bush enjoys a 52% and 51% approval rating, respectively. Wyoming, home of the vice president, is the only other state with a 50% approval rating.

The most shocking change from 2004 is Ashcroft's state of Missouri, which Bush carried in the '04 election. He now has only a 29% approval rating there and only 32% in the ever-important Ohio of two years ago. Oh, Missouri and Ohio, if only you could've had your shit together two years ago. Bygones. Not surprisingly, the president's lowest approval numbers come from the northeast: Rhode Island, New York and Vermont. Texas? 42%. But, hey, that's down 14% since the election.

This potentially indicates that Americans have seen the light, but remember, some of these people disapproving of Bush are right-wingers who feel Bush hasn't been conservative enough. Yikes. So, yea, it's all f*d up no matter how you cut it. Maybe you should just go to France this summer.

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