I truly can not fathom how 56% of the voting public can approve of what Obama is doing.
Much of this, I am convinced, is people essentially saying that they want to give him the benefit of the doubt for as long as possible; and not to put him deep in the hole so early in his tenure.
But 56% signing on for what he is proposing? I can not conceive of this.
In any event, our nation is as polarized as ever. When 2/3 of the country is evenly divided between srongly approving and strongly disapproving, there is little chance of consensus.
President Bush, who I believe was at heart a conservative, tried to tack to the center, and ended up being despised by both ends of the spectrum.
There is no “middle” there in the middle ground.
There is not 56% of the public that is even vaguely aware of what Obama is doing. 56% probably could not even name the current VP or Speaker of the House. You could ask all of those polled to name one major action taken by the Obama administration and no more than maybe 25% would even come up with the stimulus/budget stuff, and even then most of those would only have a vague impression of what it involves.
A good half or more of them have no idea what Obama is doing. They just say they approve because they think it's the right answer. look at polls of public knowledge sometime. The average citizen can't tell you who his Congressman is, or his senators. They certainly will have no idea what, for example, transpired at G-20. All they know is that the media tells them it was good. So it must be good.