Should Rove Resign? 49% Yes, 31% No (Gallup)

USA Today often gets overlooked in these parts, but it has the widest circulation of any paper without the initials WSJ, and it has this interesting article on page 4 of today's print edition:

Court nominee does well in poll; Rove does not
. . . by 34% to 25%, Americans have an unfavorable view of Rove; 25% have never heard of him. Seen by many as Bush's most powerful White House adviser, Rove has been in the news lately because of an investigation into whether administration officials illegally leaked the name of a CIA operative to reporters.

. . . 25% think Rove broke the law in the case. An additional 37% suspect that he did something unethical but not illegal. Just 15% say they think he didn't do anything seriously wrong.

Those surveyed are split almost evenly, 40%-39%, over whether Bush should fire him. By 49% to 31%, a plurality says he should resign.

Full poll results available here.

One noteworthy development is the difference between this poll and last week's Pew poll on Rove.

In the Pew poll, the "Should Rove Resign" numbers were:

Yes  39
No  23
DK  38

In the Gallup poll, they are:

Yes  49
No  31
DK  20

It's encouraging that, as the public has become more aware of the story, the Should Resign number appears to be growing faster than the Should Not Resign number (I say "appears" because these are two different polling organizations and there are obviously margins of error involved).