After six months in the Oval Office, Pres. Barack Obama has a lower job-approval rating than did ten of the last twelve presidents at the same point in their presidencies. Rasmussen reports that the daily tracking poll of the president��s popular standing shows eleven points negative: Twenty-eight percent ��strongly approve�� and 39 percent ��strongly disapprove.��

The support for his signature issue, health-care ��reform,�� is falling by the day. The more that Americans learn about it, the more revulsion they feel against it. His big stimulus bill has not delivered what he said it would. A giveaway stimulus is the Democrats�� usual alternative to tax cuts, on the theory of ��increase demand�� as opposed to ��increase supply.�� Unemployment in a few important states has now soared to 17 percent, and nationally it has risen close to 10 percent.