Bush's post–State of the Union approval-rating bounce: just 3%, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll. That's approximately the poll's margin of error. And the percentage of Americans who disapprove of him went down by just 1%.

(Bill Clinton, by contrast, gave his 1998 State of the Union address days after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke; the next ABC News/Washington Post poll, on January 28 - 29, showed his approval rating had increased by 8% -- to 68%, higher than Bush's current 61% -- and his disapproval rating had decreased by the same percentage.)