The outleak is bleak, right now, says Zogby:
"President Barack Obama's job approval rating has sunk to a record low of just 45%, the latest Zogby Interactive poll shows. Fifty-one percent of likely voters now say they disapprove of the President's job performance."
But Obama still scores well with Democrats, although he is losing the independent vote:
"While this latest poll shows Democrats continue to overwhelmingly approve of Obama's job performance (84%), just 6% of Republicans say the same. Most independents (59%) now disapprove of the job the President is doing."
None of this is surprising, given the major changes which this president is trying to make in a very short space of time.
And none of these results should cause Democrats undue concern. After all, what Obama is seeking to do is change the very contours of American politics, by tackling tasks of a scale which only three other presidents have dared to deal with (Lincoln, fighting to keep the Union alive; Roosevelt, pushing through the New Deal despite strenuous and misguided opposition; and LBJ, putting into law civil rights bills which even Jack Kennedy would not have been able to enact).
Revolutionary presidents like these four men will be opposed, and the size of the changes they force upon their societies will cause concern.
But when the dust settles, in a year or so, watch his ratings rise again, just in time for his bid for re-election.
