Good News, Good Journalism

Reacting to the same Washington Post/ABC News poll mentioned earlier this evening, Dan Balz and Scott Clement write:

In general the findings reinforce the perceptions of a president in trouble. On several key measures, Obama has lost significant ground to his Republican opponents in Congress.

On the question of who is seen as better able to handle the country’s main problems, Obama and Republicans are tied at 41 percent. A year ago, the president’s advantage was 15 points and at this stage in 2010 it was still five points.

Obama also has lost the lead he enjoyed on who could better deal with the economy. Today Republicans are at 45 percent to Obama’s 41 percent. Last year at this time, it was Obama at 54 percent and congressional Republicans at 36 percent.

Demonstrating, I suppose, that it is nearly impossible to fool most of the people most of the time.