Obama’s numbers are up because Republicans cut that stupid deal with him over Christmas-—no tax hikes and no amnesty in exchange for the DADT repeal, the FDA law, and the START treaty, giving him some semblance of a victory when they could have finished him once and for all if they had just waited until January.
Coupled with his media spun home run of a speech in Tucson, he at least temporarily is the comeback kid . The Ascended One is underestimated at our own peril.