Monday, January 24, 2011

Hinderaker on the Obama Bump

President Obama is more popular today than at any time in the last year, see today's Rasmussen Reports poll for details. For an excellent, brief analysis of this popularity, see John Hinderaker's posting on Power Line blog.

Hinderaker believes that Obama's powerlessness since the November, 2010, election is the essential cause of this popularity. That lack of power means the president is unable to do the ideological things he did before, things the electorate didn't like.

Hinderaker's view is that the people like the President but don't like his programs. Even that reported liking of the president may be largely the Bradley effect in action. Time will tell.