Several different polls concur on the low standing of Nicolas Sarkozy among the French people one year after his election. The following is a simplification of the statistics:

A poll done for Paris-Match shows 72% of the French are dissatisfied with his performance. Another poll for JDD indicates a record 79% of the French feel nothing has improved in the last year, and a third poll for Libération shows 59% of those questioned regard his first year as a failure.

The illustration from Yahoo shows the decline in the president's popularity correlated with events of his administration. When first elected he enjoyed a rating of 65% that continued to rise, reaching a peak of 69% in August. Then the decline started: he divorced his wife Cecilia, attempted to make reforms in pension plans, had his immigration law passed, welcomed Colonel Qadhafi to Paris, published the Attali Report, married Carla Bruni, attempted to implement a misbegotten plan to teach the holocaust to 5th graders, and lost the municipal elections in March, falling in that time from an approval rating of 69% to 28%.

Notice that the polls never mention crime, immigration, national identity, the Treaty of Lisbon, bioethics, Islam. Or, if they do, those statistics are never mentioned in the press.