BULLETIN:  RASMUSSEN POLL - OBAMA AT LOWEST POINT - AT 10:15 A.M. ET:  We always caution that polls are snapshots in time, but Scott Rasmussen has been tracking a steady decline for Barack Obama.  Today he reports:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 33% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –3. Those figures reflect the highest level of strong disapproval measured to date and the lowest level recorded for the overall Approval Index.

Overall approval reported by Rasmussen today stands at 52% approving, 47% not. 

Again, caution.  We'll be following this.  If Obama starts to hover around 50%, that is trouble.  His approval right after inauguration, in the Rasmussen poll, was 65%. 

Presidents normally decline in popularity as the honeymoon ends.  The extent of that decline is the thing to watch.

July 7, 2009