Tom Cruise Approval Rating Plummets: 35% in New Poll

Who knew? I had no idea Gallup did polling on people like Tom Cruise.  And I'm guessing the hunky Hollywood actor really wishes they would stop as now there is some pretty good proof that his antics from the last year have cost him fans.

Cruise Approval Rivals Bush's

In the survey of 1,013 adults conducted during the film's first weekend in theaters, 35 percent registered a favorable opinion of Cruise, while 51 percent had an unfavorable opinion.

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That's a major turnaround from last year, when Cruise's previous film, "War of the Worlds," opened and his poll ratings were 58 percent favorable and 31 percent unfavorable.

USA Today reported that Cruise's popularity decline with women was especially sharp, slipping from a 56 percent favorable rating in 2005 to 35 percent now.

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Those are George W. Bush type numbers. 

USA Today said that many of its survey's respondents cited Cruise's public behavior during the past year, including his blunt criticism of psychiatry and actress Brooke Shield's treatment for postpartum depression, for their waning impression of him.

"As a woman who has dealt with postpartum depression and has taken antidepressants in the past, I have no desire to line Mr. Cruise's pockets with any of my hard-earned cash," Fiona Sutten, 34, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, told USA Today.

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There's a lesson to be learned here for Cruise - it will be interesting to see if he grasps it.

--Jennifer Cox