OH DEAR, OH DEAR, WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE? – AT 8:10 A.M. ET:   President Obama takes another major hit in the Gallup Poll, just as he leaves Washington to be "helpful" to Democratic candidates.  With help like this...

From Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times's Top of the Ticket blog:

...a new Gallup Poll out this morning puts the top Democrat himself at his lowest approval rating ever and finds most Americans do not want the Real Good Talker to have a second term.

Other than that, Obama should be a real help to Washington's embattled Patty Murray today and Nevada's embattled Harry Reid and California's embattled Barbara Boxer later, trying to salvage the large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

The new survey reveals that the more Americans get to know this guy, the less they like him...

...For the third quarter of 2010, the seventh of his presidency, Obama's approval fell 2 more points, from 47.3% to 44.7%. These results are based on daily tracking polls involving some 90,000 Americans.

And...

According to Gallup's results, 39% of Americans now believe Obama deserves a second term.

Unfortunately for him, 54% believe he does not deserve a second chance at change.

That 54% against a second term is almost 2 points higher than the popular vote total Obama amassed in the 2008 election.

At this point in the second year of George W. Bush's presidency, 62% thought he deserved a second term after only 48% voted for him in 2000.

COMMENT:  What are they saying at the White House this morning, after reading this?  They're saying that the American people are too stupid to appreciate Barack Obama, that he's too good for them, and that he really should have run for king of the world rather than this lowly office, which is beneath his abilities.

And he'll be agreeing with them.

But don't get your hopes up yet.  Come 2012, Obama will be running, and the mainstream media will be right there in the bunker with him, resisting to the very end, as Republicans surround the city. 

October 21, 2010