The Long Slide Down

Despite all media reports to the contrary, the country is starting to lose patience with the Obamessiah's increasingly empty-looking promises of fixes:

Barack Obama’s “passion index” rating dropped to the lowest level of his presidency, according to the latest Rasmussen polling. Thirty-six percent of respondents now strongly disapprove of his performance, compared to 33% who strongly approve, giving him a -3 rating. The poll does not completely cover the period of time since the last unemployment report, meaning that he may still drop further:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 33% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –3. Those figures reflect the highest level of strong disapproval measured to date and the lowest level recorded for the overall Approval Index …

Overall, 52% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance so far. That, too, is a new low for the President. Forty-seen percent (47%) now disapprove.

Well, 52% isn’t bad for a President mired in an economic crisis that seems unending, but it’s a far cry from where Obama started. It’s also going in the wrong direction. As job losses mount, the passion index will expand in the negative, and his falling numbers may give moderate Democrats in red-leaning states second thoughts about supporting Obama’s big-spending plans on health care and energy. Getting behind a popular president is easy, but when the voters turn on the executive, don’t expect people to remain loyal — especially when they have to face the voters in 2010.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that those polled call themselves conservative by a margin of 2 to 1, and the feelings in the country are already shifting back toward the Right.

Great news, if we can just survive for another 18 months...

There's my two cents.