DES MOINES, Iowa – A majority of Iowans remain unhappy with the nation’s direction under President Bush’s leadership, with 61 percent saying the nation has gotten off on the wrong track.

The latest Iowa Poll indicated that Bush’s overall job performance has plummeted to 37 percent, the lowest approval mark of his presidency in the poll. About 59 percent of Iowa adults do not approve of the Republican president’s job performance, according to a copyright story in The Des Moines Register.

The Iowa Poll was conducted for the newspaper by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, based on telephone interviews with 801 Iowans age 18 or older between Jan. 21-24. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.