As recently as yesterday, an anchor on CNN, astonishingly, mentioned the president's poll numbers still "going down" (ironically, while he was interviewing White House communications director, Anita Dunn on the subject of the media reporting inaccurate information.)
The focus of the interview was Fox News - but there is also a clear reticence on the part of the MSM to depart their precious "poll numbers falling" meme and to admit that this is simply no longer the case.
Catch up, guys:
The four most recent presidential approval polls:
Gallup, 10/8 - 10/10:
56%
CBS News, 10/5 - 10/8:
56%
Ipsos/McClatchy, 10/1 - 10/5:
56%
Associated Press/GfK, 10/1 - 10/5:
56%
Got that? That's the four most recent polls having the president at 56%.
For some historical perspective, even Reagan had fallen to 48% by November of his first term.
On Friday's "Hardball", Chris Matthews mentioned the Associated Press poll - the response from Charlie Cook on his panel was that it was simply an "outlier". As of today, there are three more with the exact same numbers. The question is, when will the media start reporting the resurgence of Obama's poll numbers?
And will they also report that within the data of these four most recent polls is the fact that clear majorities now support both his handling of health care reform and the economy?
We'll see on Monday.