President Obama should be having a good month. Last Friday’s jobs report showed another gain of at least 200,000 jobs. The unemployment rate isn’t falling, but at least it is not rising past its current 8.3 percent. A slew of economic data was revised upward from last quarter. The economy is now firmly in an at-least stable, but admittedly weak, recovery. Obama’s job approval ratings should be rising. He should be crushing his Republican competition. But he’s not.

According to a new Washington Post poll released this morning, not only do more Americans disapprove of Obama’s handling of his job as president than approve (46 percent approve/50 percent disapprove), but in a head-to-head match-up with Mitt Romney, Obama is trailing by two points, 49 percent to 47 percent.