Latest smears prove Obama foes getting desperate

[Puzzler]

WASHINGTON — With the economic rescue package creeping toward $1-trillion - Lordy! - the last thing Barack Obama needs is an ethics controversy. But some Republicans are determined to create one, even though others think the GOP should leave Blagojevichgate alone.

Right-wing critics are having a tough time constructing a line of attack against the wildly popular president-elect.

Rasmussen reports in its daily tracking poll that Mr. Obama enjoys a 27-per-cent gap between voters who strongly approve of how he is preparing for the presidency, and those who strongly disapprove. There has been a sharp drop in recent weeks in the strongly disapprove number, which suggests that even voters who didn't support Mr. Obama initially want him to succeed in a time of national economic emergency.


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