RASMUSSEN - PAIN FOR OBAMA - AT 11:27 A.M. ET:  Rasmussen's daily tracker does not provide any relief for an increasingly beleaguered president.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 28% 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 –8.

COMMENT:  Some 43% of independents strongly disapprove.  And the president's overall approval rating, at least in the Rasmussen survey, hovers at 51%, with 48% disapproving.  This wasn't in the "yes we can" plan.

July 18, 2009