Sur­veyUSA polled all 50 states about their approval of the Pres­i­dent. Only 4 states have majori­ties that approve, and only sev­en have plu­ral­i­ties that approve.

Kansas isn’t one of them, 52% dis­ap­prove and only 44% approve. This is the first time since Novem­ber that majori­ties in Kansas have dis­ap­proved of the Pres­i­den­t’s per­for­mance. Approval/disapproval among Repub­li­cans and among con­ser­v­a­tives is back where it was last Novem­ber, the low­est in SUSA’s sample.

Dis­ap­proval among Kansas Inde­pen­dents has been ris­ing steadi­ly, though approval has been stead­ier over the last few months.

But the real sto­ry is among mod­er­ates, who have whip­sawed, sour­ing on Bush dur­ing the Kat­ri­na deba­cle, then slow­ly drift­ing back, and then drop­ping the Pres­i­dent like a stone:

Inter­est­ing­ly, his pop­u­lar­i­ty grew in west­ern Kansas, while it’s real­ly tanked in Wichi­ta and east­ern Kansas.