Good news and bad news from our weekly tracking poll.
The bad news is, Dems' numbers have slipped a couple of points across the board. The good news is, so have Republicans' numbers...and given that they were already inhabiting the lowest depths of electoral unpopularity, that's a bad sign.
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/4-7,2009. All adults. MoE 2% (4/20-4/23/2009 results):
| FAVORABLE | UNFAVORABLE | NET CHANGE |
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PRESIDENT OBAMA | 69 (70) | 26 (25) | -2 |
| | | |
PELOSI: | 37 (38) | 46 (45) | -2 |
REID: | 34 (34) | 49 (49) | -1 |
McCONNELL: | 21 (21) | 61 (60) | -1 |
BOEHNER: | 16 (16) | 63 (62) | -1 |
| | | |
CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: | 43 (44) | 49 (49) | -1 |
CONGRESSIONAL GOPS: | 13 (14) | 72 (71) | -2 |
| | | |
DEMOCRATIC PARTY: | 53 (54) | 41 (40) | -2 |
REPUBLICAN PARTY: | 21 (22) | 69 (68) | -2 |
With abominable favorables of 16/63, it appears that John Boehner is the most unpopular politician in the United States of America.

The only thing worse off than Boehner is his flock: Congressional Republicans check in at 13% favorable, 72% unfavorable, indicating that they're more widely hated than Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Democratic Party still has a wide favorability edge over the Goposaurs:

And our fearless leader is still chugging along:

Not a great week for anyone, really, but Team Blue is still leaps and bounds ahead of the Goposaurs, who are really mining new levels of suckitude at this point.