By all accounts, President Obama should not be having a good week at in the polls. The Supreme Court has legitimized claims that his signature domestic policy accomplishment was an unprecedented expansion of federal government power, he killed a infrastructure project that would have creates thousands of jobs at no cost to taxpayers, another government housing agency is teetering on bankruptcy, a Federal Reserve report says the odds of another recession are rising, Americans tell pollsters that satisfaction with way things are going in U.S. remains near historical low, and Obama’s Energy Department was caught pressuring a government loan recipient to conceal layoff announcements for political reasons.
And yet his numbers are up in Gallup’s daily tracking poll. Why? Maybe it is because after his very public push for his second stimulus failed, Obama has largely retreated from public view. Obama’s October schedule was chock full of campaign stops filled with tax-hiking class warfare rhetoric in key swing states. Near the end of the month his numbers were at all time lows (39% approve, 54% disapprove). But now that he has largely retreated from public view, first going to France for G-20 meetings and now to Australia, his numbers are rising and currently stand at 44% approve, 49% disapprove.
