Friday, March 20, 2009

Obama Approval Still Sinking

Scott Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, of which we wrote on Tuesday, March 10, then stood at +6. Today, eleven days later, it stands at +4. Go here to see Rasmussen's chart of the two subcomponents of the Approval Index: the percentage Strongly Approving of Obama's performance (35%) and the percentage Strongly Disapproving (31%).

Particularly interesting is the very clear rising trend line in the "Strongly Disapprove" ratings over the past two months. The trend is less uniformly falling for "Strongly Approve" but it is falling.

So far Obama seems less like Clinton Revisited and more like Carter Redux...that is to say, hapless.