RASMUSSEN POLLS OBAMA APPROVAL - AT 9:37 P.M. ET:  We now enter the period of Barack Obama's first 100 days as president, or, as the left calls it, Holy Week.  And yet, the first messiah president's approval ratings aren't that Heavenly, at least according to Rasmussen.  Percent approving, 54%, percent disapproving, 45%, a spread of only nine points.  Ras's presidential approval index, measuring the gap between those strongly approving and disapproving...three points, 35-32. 

It's true that other polls have Mr. Obama stronger, but Rasmussen does the daily tracker and, I think, is more careful about the percent of Dems and Republicans he includes in the mix.  The "strongly approve" figure of 35% is barely higher than the general 30% you can count on to support any liberal president, as long as he's breathing.  Mr. Obama remains personally popular, but I suspect that some of his policies, and his foreign-policy gaffes, are starting to hurt.

April 26, 2009