Obama’s poll numbers rise a bit

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It would seem unlikely that an event as historic -- by both sides’ accounts -- as the passage of a healthcare bill would pass unnoticed in the opinion polls that measure the temperature of a presidency.

The immediate effect of the past few days’ events in Washington has been a gradual increase in President Barack Obama’s job approval in the daily tracking surveys of the Gallup Poll. It stood at 51% today, a report of the last three days’ surveys.

Just last week, the March 14-17 measures had put Obama’s approval at 46% in the Gallup Poll, a term low.
We heard one of the pundits over the weekend suggest that people may not know all about the healthcare bill, but people like winners.

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-- Mark Silva