Poll Tracker

Voters turned thumbs down on the $700 billion financial bailout package approved last week by 53 percent to 34 percent in a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted Oct. 8-9. Thirty-three [percent said it would help the economy, 26 percent said it would hurt and 29 percent believe it will make no difference.

Forty-seven percent say the package will make no difference to their family financial situation while 28 percent believe it will hurt and only 16 percent feel it will help.

Only 6 percent believe that elected officials in Washington know what they're doing as far as the attempted rescue. Fifty-three percent say they have no idea what they're doing and 34 percent are "pretty sure" they know what they're doing.

Only 25 percent approve of the job President Bush is doing, the lowest number in Fox polls dating to August, 2006. And only 13 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest number in the polls since August 2007.