New Gallup and Quinnipiac polls published today - links:

[highplainsdem]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125033/Obama-Approval-Terrorism-Up-49.aspx

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1411

[closeupready]

1. Not good.

They should take these numbers as an indicator that Americans think bipartisanship is for losers, and that they need to veer sharply left if they want to avoid a disastrous midterm.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. they should, but they won't .

instead, they will move further right, and try to take some GOP positions, in the faint hope that the GOP might cooperate sometime in the future.

[closeupready]

3. Correct, they will not. They will delude themselves with their discredited Friedman theories

and DLC-endorsed views of reality.

[WI_DEM]

4. Not so bad, but CNN has better numbers on terrorism for Obama

Polls are meaningless. Reagan was in much the same position as Obama is in now due to the 81-83 recession and by November '84 the economy was recovering and jobs were being created and he won in a landslide.