Today's Rasmussen poll regarding President Obama's job approval numbers are so low that it is approaching the terrible lows recorded by George W Bush in his last years in office. The latest numbers are 58% disapprove and only 41% approve. Since these are likely voters and since Obama got about 53% of the vote in 2008, that means that he has lost the approval of over 20% of those who voted for him in the last election. Numbers that poor are stunning. Among Republicans and independents, Obama has virtually no support at all. Only among his core constituency of Democrats does Obama still retain approval. Even there, however, the numbers are slipping. I guess we can say that the oil spill made this a slippery slope.
If Obama keeps bleeding approval like this, he will poison the well for all Democrats in November.
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