Obama's strong approve/disapprove number at minus 13 (27% strongly approve, 40% strongly disapprove) and Democrats are behind GOP on 10 of 10 issues:
There are some other polls out there, but they may suffer from sampling bias. I believe the free-fall is related to the 6 million jobs lost since Democrat Nancy Pelosi became speaker and this ... they are screwing the young people with anti-jobs policies and spending us into bankruptcy:
Newsbusters: "Although the then junior senator from Illinois received 53 percent of the votes last November, NYT/CBS surveyed almost twice as many Obama voters as McCain voters."
This biased survey unsurprisingly finds Obama voters overwhelmingly support government-run health insurance socialized-Obamacare-style, but then asserts that 'most Americans' support it. Um, no, that's Pollaganda: Skewing a poll sample to skew a story.
In a more trustworthing poll btw, Obama approval turns negatives.
An NRO article on the current political landscape shares some poll results on the question of what voters are hoping, fearing, and expecting out of the Obama administration. A sampling of Democrat hopes in graph form:
And Republican fears:
The big picture:
President Bush loses base over immigration falling from base support in the 80% plus range until recently and now plummeting to around 40%:
When asked about various areas of the illegal immigration issue, 97% of respondents said that it was “very important” to focus on “border security and reducing the number of people who enter the country illegally.” That number drops to 43% on the topic of “resolving the legal status of the illegal aliens already in the U.S.” Only 18% felt it was “very important” to set up a temporary worker program. ... When asked if they supported the “illegal immigration legislation that was being debated in the U.S. Senate,” 93% of respondents said “no.”
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