Going Down? Why Yes, Yes Indeed

While Obama is taking a vacation from his vacation, his poll numbers continue their death spiral:

In today’s Gallup daily tracking poll (three-day rolling average) — Gallup! — President Barack H. Obama now sits on a job-approval of a bare 50%, having plummeted from 69% approval on January 22-24 (released on January 25th), a few days after he was inaugurated. He has dropped 19 points in 214 days of tracking-poll releases, or one point every eleven days or so. If this goes on, Obama should drop below 50% in the first week of September.

Worse, Obama’s disapproval has risen forty points in that same period, from 13% to 43%. (Again, this is Gallup, not Rasmussen; sampling adults, not likely voters, or even registered voters.) That’s a rise of one point of disapproval every 5.35 days.

And remember, this is Gallup, which is generally a bit more left-leaning. Also remember that this is a poll of adults, not likely voters. Pretty much every poll of likely voters leans more rightward than the equivalent poll of just adults.

Remember how the Left tried to foist the lame-duck label on George W. Bush when he was about 18 months before the end of his second term? If I recall correctly, one of the main justifications they used to assert that status was his low poll numbers. Boy, wouldn't it be ironic if Obama reached that same level of lame-duck status in the first half of his first term?

I can't wait.

There's my two cents.