Obama's poll numbers heading south

To be fair, President Obama's approval numbers are no where near as low as they were from George W. Bush during the last couple of years of his presidency, but if this trend continues, Obama and the Democrats are in trouble.

It's been the popularity of Obama that has helped push the stimulus bill and cap-and--trade along in Congress. Without out that adoration, which Obama seems to crave, it could be a very difficult mid-term election for the Dems.

From the American Spectator:

Is President Obama's long honeymoon finally coming to an end? It's a question I've been hesitant to ask so far in his presidency, and I only do so now with caution. It's important to keep in mind that approval ratings fluctuate week to week and Obama still remains generally popular. That said, we now have a flurry of recent data suggesting that his support is starting to wane.

Yesterday, I noted a Quinnipiac poll in the political bellwether state of Ohio showing Obama's approval rating dropping to 49 percent, and today Rasmussen finds that he received his lowest rating ever in the firm's "Presidential Approval Index." While Rasmussen has been criticized by some for releasing polls that tend to skew Republican, Obama's approval rating has dropped to 56 percent in the latest Gallup daily tracking poll, also a new low. At the same time, his Gallup disapproval rating has climbed to 36 percent, its highest ever. While, taken individually, each of these polling results could be seen as a blip, taken together, they indicate public perception of Obama is slipping -- something that can be seen in the Gallup chart below.

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