[your local physicist]

To take out some of the effect of very high unemployment and do an objective comparison among Presidents, you have to adjust Obama's numbers up for the impact of unemployment and serious fear about the economy. A bad economy drags down the approval ratings of all politicians compared to their approval ratings during a good economy. We'll get a better read on where his approval ratings really stand next year when the economy recovers to some extent and people are less worried about losing their jobs.

Looking out a few years, I think very sluggish employment growth, higher taxes, higher general inflation, and serious inflation of energy prices are going to defeat Obama in 2012 and enable the GOP to take control of the House in 2010. If I recall correctly, income taxes go up next year (next month) when the Bush tax cuts expire and people are going to see a drop in their take-home pay at the same time that Pelosi and the House will probably start debating even more new taxes to reduce the huge deficit created by the pork stimulus bill and other bailouts for democrat supporters such as public employee unions, teachers' unions, the UAW, and the SEIU. Before long the American people will realize that they've been robbed by the democrats, who ran up massive debt to prevent layoffs and pay cuts among those democrat supporters. When the House starts voting for even more new taxes next year, then the rebellion will really get rolling and the democrats will be in bigger political trouble. If they don't vote for spending cuts or tax increases, then the bond market will object strenuously to massive budget deficits and interest rates on federal debt and mortgages will rise and start to suppress the economic recovery.

So the Dems have screwed themselves by overspending on pork and political paybacks to their core supporters. That spending has to be paid for now with higher taxes, spending cuts, or higher interest rates. We know they're addicted to government spending and so the House democrats will never cut spending significantly. That means taxes and interest rates are going up next year and therefore democrat congressmen are going down to defeat in 2010. Speaker Boehner has a good ring to it...I like that title.

[SmokingJoe]

“To take out some of the effect of very high unemployment and do an objective comparison among Presidents, you have to adjust Obama’s numbers up for the impact of unemployment and serious fear about the economy”

No.
Just no.
It's that same bad economy that got 0bozo elected in the first place. It's all part of the equation And 0bozo has been hollering “I’ Bush's fault” like forever. You can't take out the effect of unemployment from his poll number because his earlier higher poll numbers were high precisely because of economic crises under Bush from last year.
You the good with the bad, same as Bush's poll numbers sank in part from the war. No excuses