地に落ちた支持率 ― plummeting

今週のテーマがさながら参院選特集のようになってしまっていますが、果たして今日も参院選の話題です。

前首相の鳩山さんの突然の辞任後、内閣支持率がV字回復したということでしたが、参院選後の今、その支持率は地に落ちました。

"plummet"とは重りのことです。”錘”とも書きます。


TOKYO — Most Japanese voters want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to stay on in his job, despite plummeting approval ratings after his party's election defeat at the weekend, opinion polls showed Wednesday.

Newspaper surveys also found that nearly two thirds of respondents favour a debate about raising the sales tax to restore battered public finances, which have seen public debt soar to nearly twice the size of the economy.
(AFP. July 14, 2010.)