His rise was fuelled by disenchantment with Obama, whose approval rating in the state stands at just 37%.
The speech will be a chance to draw further distinctions with Congress, whose approval rating remains near record lows of 13 percent.
European allies may be less worried about how Trump might behave in Brussels than about what he could say or do in his meeting with Putin, whose approval he so appears to crave.
Mr. Bush is unpopular here largely because of the war in Iraq, but he also suffers a bit from guilt by association, for his close friendship with Mr. Howard, whose approval ratings are not much better than Mr. Bush's.
And since the presidential election controversy, 36 days that seemed to relegate him to an upstairs closet at the mansion, Jeb has been more and more willing to be seen with George W., whose approval ratings still float in the stratosphere.
"And I said, 'Oh, wow, I've never gone out with anybody whose approval rating wasn't at least 48.' " The senator proposed to her in January 1992 at a performance of "La Bohème" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York — a love of opera was one of many passions they shared.
"That's a relief," Vicki replied, "because I never go out with anyone whose approval is less than 47%." As in the best of marriages, they made a real difference in each other's lives.
Arranging a sudden medical evacuation from China, for example, requires dealing successfully with potentially indignant local doctors, but also with political officials who can expedite exit clearances, and even with military types whose approval might be crucial for clearing air space for an emergency charter.
Today, it is virtually certain that the Republicans will be saddled with a battered candidate whose approval rating with independents has plummeted almost twenty percentage points over the past couple of months (Romney) or, less likely but still not completely out of the question, with a surefire loser (Santorum).
That would bring them head to head with Mr Khamenei, whose approval is needed for the staging of a referendum.It may never happen.
He and his mentor, Speaker Sam Rayburn, emphasized their desire to cooperate with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose approval rating stood at 69percentt, according to Gallup.
