Up to highest approval rating of the year
President Obama seems to be reaping the rewards of Question time and his state of the union address at last along with unemployment dropping along with weekly jobless claims to their lowest level in months.
Check out http://www.gallup.com
Look at today's numbers-53%
I think that losing the MA senate race may have been the best thing to happen to President Obama and the democrats. It woke them up, brought David Plouffe back and now the public is liking what it sees. I think President Obama's higher visiblity in the media this past month has also contributed to his poll surge.
The network polls aren't yet showing this surge but they were behind the curve in the drop last year while Gallup showed the drop immediately. We may be seeing that again.
He is up 4-5 points over this time last week.
I think it is no coincidence that he has surged after Sarah Palin's performance last week. The public was repulsed, took one look at her writing stuff on the back of her hands and saying that we needed to play the war card and rushed back to President Obama. That's just a small part of it of course. Focusing on jobs and the economy has probably helped as well.
Why do you think President Obama is surging?