Whoopsy-daisy, Republicans:
According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53% of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The president's approval rating was at 51% in CNN's last poll, which was conducted in early April.
"That two-point difference is well within the poll's sampling error…,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Nonetheless, an approval rating that has not dropped and remains over 50% will probably be taken as good news by Democrats after the events of the last week."
The CNN poll is in-line with Gallup, which also indicated a very slight rise in Obama's approval rating over the same time period. And Gallup's daily tracking poll also indicated a slight upward movement of Obama's approval rating over the past week. But as with the CNN poll, it was within that survey's sampling error.
Predictably, CNN can’t help reporting Obama's approval bump in two distinct polls as good news for John McCain, downplaying the increase as statistical error and taking pains to note that the public does not think Republicans are overreaching.
But these numbers confirmed that Americans still know what they first learned during the hunting of Bill and Hillary Clinton: dishonest, desperate, paranoid Republicans will do anything to distract the nation from the fact that they have no positive agenda for making America more prosperous, more fair, and more free.
The numbers also beg the question of why so many Democrats are helping Republicans do their dirty tricks by piling on the President when, clearly, the American people are still on the side of the party that actually tries to work for them.