Is the Honeymoon over?

Today Rassmussen reports the results of its presidential approval poll as showing an 8% gap between those who strongly disapprove of Obama over those who strongly approve. This is a major shift from where that poll has been since the start of the Obama administration. Overall, those polled approved of Obama's job performance but only by a 51 to 48 margin, again, a major shift from where those numbers have been for months. It will be interesting to see how the other polls come in over the next few weeks. It will also be interesting to see how many news stories get written reporting the declining numbers for Obama, should that prove to be the case. For a number of years, nearly every story written about George Bush mentioned his low approval ratings no matter the subject. (Things like Bush lays wreath at Arlington Cemetary on Veterans Day actually had paragraphs about the approval polls.) My guess is that the stories that get written will minimize the aspect of increasing disapproval and will talk for the time being about how Obama's numbers are higher than those that Bush had at the end of his term. Of course, that is just a guess -- time will tell.