WHERE OBAMA STANDS – AT 10:35 A.M. E.T. – It is stunning.  The president continues to sink in the polls.  There are many surveys, some good, some less so, but we depend mostly on Rasmussen because he polls likely voters, which is the most useful and accurate measurement.

Also, Scott Rasmussen publishes what he calls the Presidential Approval Index, measuring passion.  It reports the gap between those who strongly approve of a president's performance and those who strongly disapprove.  Since August 30th, Mr. Obama has had an approval index of worse than -20 every day, and that is no ornament to his presidency.  Today's report:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 20% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23.

It is incredible that 43% of respondents strongly disapprove of this president. 

Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) at least somewhat disapprove.

Rasmussen is now moving closer to the Gallup Poll's rating of the president, which has been in the low 40s, and has dipped several times into the high 30s.

Again we stress that a poll is a snapshot in time.  We also stress that weak numbers do not guarantee the president's defeat next year.  Political resurrections occur all the time, especially as the Republican Party has found the most creative ways to lose elections.  So let us work.

September 10, 2011