VANCOUVER - Gordon Campbell’s approval rating, in free fall for months over the harmonized sales tax, has hit "rock bottom" with only nine per cent of British Columbians backing the premier, a poll released Friday has found. Campbell’s dismal support level is the lowest recorded by any Canadian premier over the past two years, according to the Angus Reid Public Opinion survey. The poll also shows that the electorate remains uneasy with NDP leader Carole James. While her party enjoys a huge lead with the support of nearly half of British Columbians, the poll found, her own approval rating lags far behind her party’s at 27 per cent. The online poll of 804 adults, conducted on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14, found the New Democrats backed by 49 per cent of respondents, compared with the B.C. Liberals at 24 per cent, the Green party with 13 per cent and the B.C. Conservatives with eight per cent. Campbell’s drop to nine per cent makes him more unpopular than former premiers Bill Vander Zalm and Glen Clark during their ill-fated terms in office in the 1980s and 90s.----------------
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