Donald Trump only enjoys an approval rating over 50% in 12 states.

Courtesy of Politico:  

New polling on that first year of Trump shows that the President has a lot of work to do in bringing the country together. There are just 12 states where Trump's job approval rating was above 50% for the entirety of 2017. That pales in comparison to the 41 states where then-President Barack Obama was above 50% approval for his first year on office.

Those numbers are reflective of two things: 

1. Trump's overall job approval number nationwide was never over 50% in Gallup polling at any point in 2017. Trump's high point was 366 days ago when he was at 45% approval and 47% disapproval. The last time Trump's approval was over 40% in Gallup polling was at the end of May 2017 -- when he was at 41%. Trump averaged the lowest job approval number -- 38% -- of any president ever in his first year in office in Gallup data. At the end of 2009, Obama's approval rating was at 57%. 

2. Trump's most loyal voters -- and states -- are staying with him. His job approval was highest in places like West Virginia, North Dakota and Wyoming where he won by huge margins in 2016. (One interesting note: Democratic senators are running for re-election in both West Virginia and North Dakota this fall.) Many of those states are also less populated. 

Viewed broadly, these numbers should worry Republicans -- especially those on the House side hoping to hold onto their majority after the 2018 election.

Dammit, of course my state is one of the twelve.

I really love the fact that Trump will never enjoy the popularity that President Obama enjoyed.

Nor will he ever see a second term.

Donald Trump's approval ratings continue on their downward spiral.

Courtesy of NBC News:  

President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has declined to the lowest point of his presidency, and nearly half of voters want their vote in the 2018 midterms to be a message for more Democrats in Congress to check Trump and congressional Republicans, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. 

Thirty eight percent of Americans say they approve of Trump’s job performance — down five points since September — while 58 percent disapprove. 

Trump’s previous low in approval in the national NBC/WSJ poll was 39 percent back in May. 

“This is his worst showing of his young presidency so far,” said Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff and his team at Public Opinion Strategies.

I still remain confused how ANYBODY still supports this lunatic, however it is at least comforting to see that the support continues to slip away.

This poll was conducted BEFORE those Mueller indictments were made public yesterday.

I am interested to see how they might affect these numbers.

Most recent poll shows Donald Trump at 32% approval.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

President Trump's approval rating has sunk to a new low in a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey. 

Thirty-two percent of Americans polled said they approved of Trump's handling of his job nine months into his presidency, while 67 percent of those polled said they disapproved. 

The president's approval rating in the poll is down from 42 percent in March and 35 percent in June, AP-NORC said. 

Trump also did not fare well among Americans who were asked if he understands their needs and problems. 

Sixty-four percent of Americans said the president understands their needs "not very well" or "not very well at all."

This poll was taken at the end of September beginning of October, so it was right around the time that Trump was demonstrating a lack of leadership in dealing with the hurricane damage in Puerto Rico. 

I continue to think these numbers are too high, but clearly they are spiraling downward as we all expected that they might.

And if his cabinet members start to resign en masse, which is now becoming an expectation by those in the know, he should hit rock bottom well before Thanksgiving.

New Quinnipiac is devastating news for Donald Trump.

Trump's approval numbers have been dropping in every single poll that comes out lately, but this poll is perhaps the worst one thus far.

Courtesy of Quinnipiac: 

President Donald Trump is doing more to divide the country, 62 percent of voters say, while 31 percent say he is doing more to unite the country, his worst score on this question, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. 

President Trump gets a negative 35 - 59 percent overall job approval rating, down from a negative 39 - 57 percent rating in an August 17 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University. Every party, gender, education, age and racial group disapproves except Republicans, who approve 77 - 14 percent; white voters with no college, approving 52 - 40 percent, and white men, who approve by a narrow 50 - 46 percent. 

American voters disapprove 60 - 32 percent of Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville. 

Oh yeah it gets worse.

59% pf Americans believe that Trump has encouraged white supremacist groups.

55% say there is too much racism in the country these days, and 50% say prejudice against minority groups is a "very serious problem."

And all of this is laid directly at the feet of Donald Trump with 65% of those polled said that "the level of hatred and prejudice in the U.S. has increased" since he was elected.

"Elected on his strength as a deal-maker, but now overwhelmingly considered a divider, President Donald Trump has a big negative job approval rating and low scores on handling racial issues," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. 

And these numbers will not exactly thrill Trump either:  

President Trump does not provide the U.S. with moral leadership, American voters say 62 - 35 percent. Voter opinions of most Trump qualities remain low: 

61 - 36 percent that he is not honest; 
61 - 37 percent that he does not have good leadership skills; 
57 - 40 percent that he does not care about average Americans; 
68 - 29 percent that he is not level headed; 
59 - 38 percent that he is a strong person; 
55 - 43 percent that he is intelligent; 
63 - 34 percent that he does not share their values.

But possibly the number that is going to REALLY get under Trump's skin is the 49% of Americans who think we would be better off with Hillary in the White House.

Personally I think that number is much too low, but I have every confidence that it will be going up soon.

New poll shows Donald Trump's approval rating as even lower than the last poll, but probably better than the next poll.

I don't do numbers, is that bad?

Courtesy of Gallup:

President Donald Trump's job approval rating in Gallup Daily tracking is at 34% for the three-day period from Friday through Sunday -- by one point the lowest of his administration so far. 

It is difficult to pinpoint the precise cause of the new low rating, but the changes were apparent on Friday, with his day-by-day ratings near 34% across Saturday and Sunday as well. Trump has consistently been in the news over the past week, including the continued focus on North Korea, even while taking a working vacation at one of his golf properties in New Jersey. The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the deaths of a 32-year-old woman and two Virginia State Police officers dominated news coverage on Saturday and Sunday. Trump's prior three-day low reading was 35%, registered March 26-28. 

From a broader perspective, Trump's rating of 36% for the week ending Aug. 13 was also by one point his lowest on a weekly basis. The president has talked in recent days about doing well with his "base," but Republicans' latest weekly approval rating of 79% was the lowest from his own partisans so far, dropping from the previous week's 82%. Democrats gave Trump a 7% job approval rating last week, while the reading for independents was at 29%. This is the first time independents' weekly approval rating for Trump has dropped below 30%.

If someone were selling stock options on Donald Trump right now you could buy about a dozen shares with whatever change you could find under your sofa cushions.

Gallup goes on to say that Trump's approval ratings are not the lowest in presidential history, but since this is only a little way into his first term I think we know that they will be breaking all records in the very near future.

Donald Trump sets a new record by having the lowest six month approval ratings of any president in the last 70 years.

Courtesy of ABC News: 

Americans give President Donald Trump the lowest six-month approval rating of any president in polls dating back 70 years, punctuated by questions about his competence on the world stage, his effectiveness, the GOP health care plan and Russia’s role in the 2016 election. 

Just 36 percent of Americans polled in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Trump’s job performance, down 6 points from his 100-day mark, itself a low. The previous president closest to this level at or near six months was Gerald Ford, at 39 percent, in February 1975.

The poll also found that 63% of Americans think that it was inappropriate for Junior to take the meeting with Russians, and 60% think the Russians worked to help Trump win.

I guess this is what MAGA means, right?

New Quinnipiac poll shows that the flushing sound you hear are Donald Trump's approval numbers.

Courtesy of Quinnipiac: 

The president is losing support among independent voters and groups which are important parts of his base. Approval ratings are:

• Negative 29 - 63 percent among independent voters, down from a negative 38 - 56 percent April 19;
• A split among white voters with no college degree, as 47 percent approve and 46 percent disapprove, compared to a 57 - 38 percent approval April 19;
• White men go from a 53 - 41 percent approval April 19 to a split today with 48 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving. 

American voters' opinions of several of Trump's personal qualities are down:

• 61 - 33 percent that he is not honest, compared to 58 - 37 percent April 19; 
• 56 - 41 percent that he does not have good leadership skills, little change; 
• 59 - 38 percent that he does not care about average Americans, compared to 57 - 42 percent April 19; 
• 66 - 29 percent that he is not level-headed, compared to 63 - 33 percent last month; 
• 62 - 35 percent that he is a strong person, little change; 
• 56 - 41 percent that he is intelligent, compared to 58 - 38 percent; 
• 64 - 32 percent that he does not share their values, compared to 61 - 35 percent. 

"There is no way to spin or sugarcoat these sagging numbers," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. 

"The erosion of white men, white voters without college degrees and independent voters, the declaration by voters that President Donald Trump's first 100 days were mainly a failure and deepening concerns about Trump's honesty, intelligence and level headedness are red flags that the administration simply can't brush away," Malloy added. 

Keep in mind this poll was taken BEFORE Trump fired James Comey.

Just imagine how much lower they will be in the next poll.

The only problem I have with these numbers is that I know Trump cares more about his popularity than perhaps any other president before him, and it frightens me to think what he might do to raise his numbers among his ignorant base in response.

Remember, the last time his numbers were this low he dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb we have on Afghanistan.

By the way this tidbit of information was also the result of this Quinnipiac poll.

Here were the rest of the choices.

Quinnipiac asked people what word first came to mind when they thought about Trump. https://t.co/ks0UauOs9O pic.twitter.com/HQ3bYWhD16

— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 10, 2017

I am having such a hard time understanding how ANYBODY comes up with "strong" or "leader" when describing this incompetent lying idiot.

Donald Trump has the lowest approval ratings of any other president elected since World War 2.

Courtesy of Gallup:

Donald Trump averaged 41% job approval during his first quarter as president, 14 percentage points lower than any other president in Gallup's polling history. Bill Clinton had the previous low mark of 55%. The average first-quarter rating among post-World War II presidents elected to their first term is 61%, with John Kennedy's 74% the highest.

You know I so want to celebrate this, but the fact is that this asshole represents all of us now so unfortunately this is also a reflection on the entire country. 

God I hate Vladimir Putin right now.

Donald Trump's poll numbers continue to tank.

Courtesy of Investor's Business Daily: 

Just 34% of the public approve of the job President Trump is doing, as his support among Republicans and independents tumbles, according to the April IBD/TIPP poll. Fifty six percent disapprove of the job he's doing. Approval ratings for a president haven't been this low since President Bush's last months in office. 

Last month, 40% of independents approved of the job Trump is doing; just 29% approve today. Among Republicans, Trump's job approval is 74%, which represents a 14-point decline from last month. 

The latest IBD/TIPP poll was taken from March 24-30, and includes responses from 904 people across the country, giving it a margin of error of +/-3.3 percentage points. The national sample of adults had 34% Democrats, 30% Republicans and 36% Independents. 

Across the board, the poll has bad news for Trump. 

He lost significant support among his strongest backers: white men (which dropped from 58% in March to 49% today), and rural America, which went from 56% to 41% today. 

Just over a third (37%) rate Trump's handling of the economy as "good" or "excellent," which is down from 43% last month. Only a quarter of those polled give him top marks on his handling of health care. 

And 35% now say that Trump is providing strong leadership for the country, compared with 49% who say it is weak.

Donald Trump cares about ratings, crowd size, and poll numbers perhaps more than any other president in history so you just KNOW this is killing him.  

These are historically bad numbers and it really looks as if they are only going to get worse.

Good Morning. It's Tuesday and Donald Trump's approval ratings are now at 36%.

Courtesy of Gallup: 

President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders' failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act. 

Trump's three-day reading prior to Friday's events was 41%. His previous low point was 37%, recorded March 16-18. His highest reading was 46% in the week following his Jan. 20 inauguration, and he has averaged 42% for his term to date. 

Trump's current 36% is two percentage points below Barack Obama's low point of 38%, recorded in 2011 and 2014. Trump has also edged below Bill Clinton's all-time low of 37%, recorded in the summer of 1993.

Who thinks this is just the beginning of a downward trend?

I wonder if Donald Trump is tired of winning yet?

NBC News reports on Donald Trump's problems with lying as his approval ratings plummet.

THIS is what NBC News is starting off their broadcast with tonight following the Comey hearings this morning.

No longer is there any pussyfooting about Trump's false statements, NOW they are simply calling him what he is.

A liar.

And if that were not bad enough Trump's approval ratings are now reflecting the American people's lack of confidence in his ability to do the job and their ability to trust anything that he says.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

President Donald Trump’s latest approval rating has sunk to a new low, according to the latest Gallup poll. 

Only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, and 58 percent disapprove, the daily poll found Sunday. Those are the worst ratings since he took office eight weeks ago. His approval rating stood at 45 percent just nine days ago. 

Trump’s approval rating is lower than any other president at this point in his first term since Gallup started tracking the numbers 72 years ago in 1945. Barack Obama’s rating at this point in his presidency was 60 percent.

And remember, this was BEFORE the Comey hearing this morning.

Wait until it starts to hit negative numbers. 

Donald Trump's approval ratings dropping like a stone.

Courtesy of TPM: 

President Donald Trump’s net approval rating dropped by eight points in his first week in the Oval Office, according to daily polls tracked by Gallup. On Sunday Jan. 22, two days after being sworn in, 45 percent of respondents said they disapproved of Trump’s job performance and 45 percent approved. 

By Friday Jan. 27, the percentage who disapproved rose to 50 and percentage who approved dipped to 42.

If Trump keeps on gong the way he is he might just bottom out at zero before spring. 

Personally I think we should redo the election now that the American people have a true sense of who Donald Trump REALLY is.

I guarantee the largest turnout in American history.

Donald Trump's inaugural polling shows him with the lowest numbers in the history of the poll.

Courtesy of Gallup:

President Donald Trump is the first elected president in Gallup's polling history to receive an initial job approval rating below the majority level. He starts his term in office with 45% of Americans approving of the way he is handling his new job, 45% disapproving and 10% yet to form an opinion. Trump now holds the record for the lowest initial job approval rating as well as the highest initial disapproval rating in Gallup surveys dating back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Trump's inaugural approval rating is not much lower than the 51% recorded for George H.W. Bush in 1989 as well as for Ronald Reagan in 1981, but his disapproval rating is substantially higher than theirs. Whereas 45% disapprove of Trump, only 6% disapproved of the elder Bush and 13% disapproved of Reagan.

By contrast President Obama polled at 68% approval at the beginning of HIS presidency. 

Low inaugural TV ratings, small inaugural crowds, and now low polling numbers.

I swear the only huge numbers associated with Trump's inauguration were the record breaking crowds who came out to protest it the next day. 

President Obama hits 60% in final approval poll.

Courtesy of MSN: 

Barack Obama leaves office Friday with six-in-10 Americans approving of his job performance, capping a steady rise that vaults him above the average final mark for modern presidents, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.

By contrast these are Trump's numbers:

The CNN/ORC poll shows 53 percent of Americans view Trump unfavorably, while only 44 percent have a favorable opinion of the incoming president. In the ABC News/Washington Post poll, Trump’s favorable rating is just 40 percent, with 54 percent having an unfavorable opinion. 

That, according to The Washington Post, makes Trump the least-popular incoming president of the past 40 years — by a large margin. 

Under attack for the last eight years by a relentless Right Wing that worked desperately to undermine his presidency, and he still leaves office with a significantly higher approval rating than the guy they chose to replace him. 

Should be a message in there, don't you think?

President Obama's second term approval ratings now higher than Ronald Reagan's second term approval ratings. Take that GOP!

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Pollster.com's Charles Franklin was a little ahead of the curve Sunday morning when he pointed out that President Obama's approval rating right now is among the highest Election-Day approval ratings in recent history.

Why is that ahead of the curve? Because on Monday, fewer than 24 hours before polls open across the United States, Gallup reported that Obama's daily approval rating had hit 56 percent. That's a figure that he'd been around at the end of October, but had otherwise only hit or exceeded on seven days since August 2009. 

Franklin tracked recent survey results by party to evaluate Obama's approval, finding that, at 52.1 percent on average, he's viewed more positively now than Ronald Reagan was at the end of his second term, but not as positively as was Bill Clinton at the end of his.

That's right President Obama, the man that Donald Trump claims is THE worst President ever, is polling at a whopping 56%. And that puts him just barely behind our LAST Democratic President, Bill Clinton.

Remember THIS is the administration that Donald Trump wants to save us from seeing go to a "third term," this is the swamp he wants to "drain." and this is the wrong direction that he wants to steer this country away from.

In short Donald Trump wants to toss us a lifeline and drag us from our comforting, relaxing, soothing bubble bath.

Which brings me to one of my many pet peeves.

During this campaign season I have seen a parade of half witted Trump surrogates saying that the people do not trust the government, and that the government is broken, and that Americans want to "take back this country," and it seems that NOT ONE of the journalists interviewing them ever takes the time to correct that BS.

Yes it is true that many Americans believe that the government is "broken."

But they are NOT talking about the Executive branch of government, they are talking about the Legislative branch of government.

In other words they are talking about the Senate and the House of Representatives, both of which have essentially ground to a halt. (They cannot even do something simple like confirm a Supreme Court nominee.)

And which party has the majority in both of those places?

That's right, the Republicans.

So essentially the Republican presidential campaign has been running on the promise to fix the branch of government THEIR party broke, by replacing the person in charge of the branch of government that is actually working well.

How in the fuck does that work?

No if the voters really want to "fix" the government, "drain" the swamp, and "take back" their country they want to vote every one of those obstructionist GOP assholes out of office and replace them with idealistic, hopeful Democrats who know how government is supposed to work and will make sure that it does.

And THAT should have been the central message of the Hillary Clinton campaign in my opinion.

"Government is only broken when you don't know how to make it work. Vote for Hillary Clinton and a Democratic Senate and House, and we will show you how to get it running like a clock."

Do you think that is too long for a bumper sticker?

So guess which Russian strongman's poll numbers have gone up 39 points with Republicans in only two years.

PUTIN Net-Favorability (YouGov/Economist Poll) among...

Democrats
July 2014: -54
Aug 2016: -54

Republicans
July 2014: -66
Aug 2016: -27

— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) September 9, 2016

So does this mean that Donald Trump's Putin ass kissing is now seen as a positive for Republican voters?

Somewhere Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave like a top.

President Obama's second term approval ratings now higher than Clinton, Bush, or Reagan.

Courtesy of WAPT News:  

President Barack Obama's approval rating remains on the upswing, with 52 percent now approving of his performance as president, up a statistically insignificant one point since last month, but now five points above the 47 percent who approved in January. 

This survey marks the third straight CNN/ORC poll with majority approval for the president, and the fourth straight with a net-positive approval rating overall. 

The president's scores were last in negative territory in January. The improvement since then seems concentrated among political moderates, whose approval rating for Obama has climbed nine points to 62 percent while views among liberals and conservatives have largely held steady. 

It's not just Obama's approval ratings that are on the rise -- his favorability has also climbed and stands at 53 percent now, up from 48 percent in December. 

That figure means that at this stage of his presidency, Obama ranks as the most positively-viewed recent second term president. Both Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan were viewed favorably by just under half of adults in the spring or summer of their final years in office, while George W. Bush's favorability rating stood at 38 percent in summer 2008. 

In terms of approval ratings, Obama's current rating outranks both Bush's mark (30 percent) and Reagan's approval rating (48 percent) at this point in their final year, and is just below Clinton's rating in June 2000 (55 percent).

The article goes on to say that Obama's high favorable ratings will also help Hillary in November.

Which of makes perfect sense, and why it was SO important to nominate a real Democrat for the general election.

This is not the time for a revolution. Revolutions are for when things are getting worse, not for when things are getting betters.

And thanks to President Obama, and future President Hillary Clinton, things are indeed getting better. 

New report finds there has been a 35% decrease in the uninsured since the implementation of Obamacare. Conservatives claim that math is a liberal trick.

Told you everything would work out.

Courtesy of Vox: 

A new report from Health and Human Services finds that the uninsured rate has fallen from 20.3 percent prior to the health-care law down to 13.2 percent at the start of 2015. This is a 7.1 percentage-point decrease in the uninsured rate — or, to put it another way, a 35-percent decline in the number of Americans who lack insurance coverage. 

"Nothing since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid has come close to this kind of change," says Richard Frank, assistant secretary for evaluation and planning at Health and Human Services. 

The decline in coverage has coincided with two big Obamacare programs. First, there was the part of the law that required employers to offer dependent coverage up through age 26. Since that program began in 2010, the uninsured rate among young adults (Americans between the ages of 19 and 26) has dropped from 34.1 percent to 26.7 percent. 

Second, and much larger, was the start of the health law's insurance expansion in 2014. Federal officials estimate that since the expansion started, 14.1 million Americans have gained coverage, largely through Medicaid and the health law's marketplace for private insurance.

I think this is probably why we have not heard the conservatives going after Obamacare recently. 

Now it's all about the President's "weakness" on and his insistence, according to the conservatives, on helping Iran get an atomic bomb.

"Netanyahu says the President is making a bad deal. Netanyahu says there will be no Palestinian state if he is reelected. Netanyahu said my hair looked nice and I swooned!"

However despite all of the attempts to undermine this President for virtually everything he tries to do, his approval ratings just keep going up: 

President Obama's approval rating just hit 50 percent for the first time since the spring of 2013. That's the biggest -- and most surprising -- takeaway from a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The gains are pretty even across the board, but the biggest are among Democrats (10 points), moderates (10), Hispanics (22), and even white evangelical Christians (10), who generally tilt heavily toward the GOP. Obama also has gained 19 points among adults younger than 30.

Gee not bad for a guy that just can't seem to do anything right. 

Some good news for the President. And, in my opinon, for America.

President Obama in Arlington, Virginia.

Reuters is reporting the following:

A surge in hiring in the world's largest economy last month drove the Nasdaq to an 11-year high on Friday as optimism grew that the labor market is on a steady path to recovery. 

The broad-based gains on solid trading volume also sent the Dow Jones industrial average near a four-year high. The S&P 500 extended its 2012 advance to about 7 percent and was at its highest level in more than six months. 

The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to nearly a three-year low of 8.3 percent, the government said. 

"It is really hard to find something not to like in the jobs report," said Andrew Goldberg, market strategist at JP Morgan Funds in New York. "There is genuine strength in this report with broad-based jobs creation."

This growth in the job market is really going to undermine the Republicans planned strategy for attacking the President this election cycle. They really hoped that by picking Romney, who they keep mislabeling as a "job creator," it would help them to demonstrate a stark difference between the President's poor performance in job creation, as compared to the completely false narrative that Romney would do a far better job.

But that only works if the President's performance really has been poor. And the facts do not support that contention as you can see below.

They had also hoped that the President's approval rating would stay in a slump, but that is also not working out to their advantage. And guess who the President can credit with the upswing?

The Republicans themselves, that's who!

This from Talking Points Memo:  

The short-lived bump from the killing of Osama bin Laden was countered by a strong trend downward toward the politically poisonous summertime fight with Congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling. No one got out of that one unscathed — but, there was ample evidence that the GOP hobbled itself even more going into an election cycle when they were supposed to have the upper hand, with more voters blaming them for the sorry affair than Democrats. 

After a debt agreement was done, Obama immediately made a successful pivot to jobs, and the public responded. Nothing in the jobs package Obama proposed came to fruition, but that was likely part of the political calculus — Republicans again said no, reinforcing the “do-nothing Congress” narrative after having just hurt themselves on the debt ceiling issue. They followed that up with a fairly clear legislative loss on the payroll tax extension, which similarly pitted Obama pushing a message to middle class voters concerned about the economy while House Speaker John Boehner squabbled with his own caucus. 

Those factors led to an uptick over the last three months, just as the Republican presidential primary process began in earnest.

So in other words the timing could not be more perfect for the President's numbers to start climbing.

Unless you are a Republican of course.

Despite doom and gloom reporting from the mainstream media concerning Obama's approval ratings, they are actually pretty good.

From Pensito Review:

According to Gallup, Pres. Obama’s approval rating is now positive 48 percent to 46 percent. That’s a reversal from Sept. 8-9, when his approval/disapproval was 44/48, and a slight uptick from Sept. 16-17, when it was 47/46.

And you wouldn’t know it from listening to the vitriol coming from the corporate media and the GOP’s tea bagger base, but Pres. Obama is polling six percentage points ahead of presidents Reagan or Clinton three weeks out from their first mid-term elections.

This should be instructive to those Democrats who are attempting to make distant between themselves and the President, or his policies.  Clearly the American people are not as put off by health care reform, financial reform, and the "cash for clunkers" program as the propagandists at Fox News would like everybody to believe.

Sarah Palin: "How's that hopey changy thing working for ya?"

Pretty damn good you imbecile.  Pretty damn good.