For the first time in almost two months Obama's approval in Rasmussen is in single negative digits at minus 9; that is the difference between the strongly approve and strongly disapprove numbers. His overall approval is at 49-50.
Now I know that Rasmussen's methodology is questionable at best but I do think that they are internally consistent. The number went from minus 15 yesterday to minus 9 today, which is a pretty strong pop. I don't know what is driving the numbers or if this is a one day anomaly-we shall see.
The last time Obama was at this level, it had been achieved gradually with a series of daily results of 13-12-10-10-11-8, whereas recently the numbers have been in the low to mid teens.
FWIW I think I may have discerned a slight change in the mainstream media's willingness to actually give Obama credit for his achievements. Perhaps the one-two combination of the firing of MacChrystal and the financial reform law have given then some dose of sanity. Does anybody else see this happening?