Poll after poll after poll after poll, we see the same thing. This time, it's CBS/NY Times (MoE +/- 3): Obama's job approval is 66% and
By contrast, Republican fortunes have dropped in the first weeks of the Obama presidency; just 31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked in New York Times/CBS News polls.
Here's a look at an aggregate of all polls asking the right direction/wrong direction question:
That's not bad at all, especially when you consider that most of the news — economically, at least — is almost always bad.
Two key questions in the poll show that whatever Republicans think they are doing in Congress by voting against the stimulus and other things, the American people ain't happy with it:
Regardless of how you usually vote, who do you think is more likely to make the right decisions about the nation's economy — Barack Obama or the Republicans in Congress?
President Obama 63
Republicans in Congress 20Regardless of how you usually vote, who do you think is more likely to make the right decisions about keeping the nation safe — Barack Obama or the Republicans in Congress?
President Obama 61
Republicans in Congress 27
Perhaps the GOP should climb aboard the bandwagon.