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Gallup Daily: Obama Job ApprovalEach result is based on a three-day rolling average

Approve/Disapprove = -2 Overall= +7

Overall, 53% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance so far. That’s his lowest level of overall approval to date. Forty-seven percent (47%) now disapprove.

Poll Date Sample Approve Disapprove Spread RCP Average 05/26 - 06/03 -- 60.0 34.2 +25.8

Google puts up a solitary yellow ribbon for Memorial Day. Very inconspicuous. Contrast this to the elaborate 47 million year old lemur tribute a few days ago.

Nothing as of yet to link to but Cavuto basically said that Congress has been touting mandates from an election 6 months ago while ignoring what happened a few days ago.

Date Presidential Approval Index Strongly Approve Strongly Disapprove Total Approve Total Disapprove 05/16/2009 +4 34% 30% 55% 44% 05/15/2009 +7 36% 29% 57% 43% 05/14/2009 +8 37% 29% 57% 42%

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - After a frenzied, bruising special election, a New York congressional race that became linked to President Barack Obama's economic recovery efforts won't be decided for at least two more weeks. Democrat Scott Murphy led Republican Jim Tedisco by a scant 65 votes out of more than 154,000 cast Tuesday. After the count of machine votes in 610 voting precincts spread over the mostly rural, 10-county district, the unofficial count was 77,344 for Murphy to 77,279 for Tedisco. That puts the focus on the more than 10,000 absentee ballots mailed to voters who are registered in the...

Who would have thought 55 days into this administration we would be asking the question, what did he know and when did he know it? Word that a provision in the stimulus bill gave the green light for AIG to hand out bonuses using taxpayer money sent the media bloodhounds hot on the trail of whoever is the culprit. For a time, it looked like Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd would take the fall, but after 24 hours of twisting in the wind, Dodd said the change that exempted past agreements to pay bonuses was made at the request of...

Obama Approval Index History Date Presidential Approval Index Strongly Approve Strongly Disapprove Total Approve Total Disapprove 03/07/2009 +8 39% 31% 56% 43% 03/06/2009 +15 42% 27% 58% 40% 03/05/2009 +14 41% 27% 59% 40% 03/04/2009 +16 42% 26% 60% 38%

1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president? Total Rep Dem Ind 58 Approve 33 86 51 26 Disapprove 49 6 29 16 Don’t know 18 8 20 100 100 100 100 2. In general, government grows bigger as it provides more services. If you had to choose, would you rather have a......

President Obama this week continued his effort to spend the country out of recession with his first speech to Congress outlining where he wants to go and his first budget showing how he plans to pay for it. Three major policy goals are at the top of the president’s list – health care reform, development of new sources of energy and ensuring that every child has “a complete and competitive education.” Despite the spending on this and the various bailout and stimulus packages he has announced to date, Obama also promises to cut the federal deficit in half in four...

The president's approval ratings drop 4% in matter of 5 days. His disapproval rate increased by the same percentage as well.

US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency. "Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change," he added. After nearly three decades of severed ties, Obama said shortly after taking office this month that he is willing to extend a diplomatic hand to Tehran...

President Barack Obama is coming to the Capitol this afternoon to curry favor with congressional Republicans. But it appears GOP leaders have already made up their minds to oppose his $825 billion stimulus plan. House Republican Leader John A. Boehner and his No. 2, Whip Eric Cantor, told their rank-and-file members Tuesday morning during a closed-door meeting to oppose the bill when it comes to the floor Wednesday, according to an aide familiar with the discussion. Boehner told members that he's voting against the stimulus, and Cantor told the assembled Republicans that there wasn't any reason for them to support...

I think we may see Jindal or Palin.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show. ADVERTISEMENT In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago's South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant for the group's youth services followed the next year. The group's executive director when the grants were awarded was Capers Funnye, a South Side rabbi and Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed.

Let's see where this goes...

Palin is on the attack.

If McCain can work a deal that House Republicans can live with, he may have wrapped the election up.