The Working File

According to this Washington Post story, “President Obama’s apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threatening to derail both public and congressional support for his ambitious political agenda.”
I’ve previously thought that the drop in Obama’s poll numbers in the past 2-3 [...]

Today’s WSJ has an article, by a pair of bipartisan professional, pollsters, about Obama’s slipping poll numbers.
A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most [...]