From Taegan Goddard:
"A year after he won the presidential election, 54% of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey.
Said pollster Keating Holland: "Obama's approval rating of 54 percent is nearly identical to the 53 percent of the vote he won a year ago. And in nearly every demographic category, the percent that approve of Obama today is within two to three points of the percent who voted for him in 2008."
TW: 53% of folks liked Obama when he was elected and 53% like him today.
From Walter Shapiro at Politics Daily"
"The way we cover and consume political news is about as rational as stock-market investors looking to find the next Bernie Madoff.
Four years ago -- a year after one of the closest presidential elections in history -- there was so little national interest in the vacant governorships in New Jersey and Virginia that there were no exit polls. This time around -- a year after Barack Obama's presidential landslide -- those same two off-year gubernatorial races are now viewed as deadly accurate barometers of the public mood..."
TW: In other words we are keeping cable news relatively busy but not much public opinion is changing. Folks get frustrated with the rate of "change" but our system is built for incremental change for good reason (i.e. the Senate cloture rules amongst others). Obama has 53% support no more, no less.
Change is happening though, fret not.
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