A word about Obama's most recent seven day average.

Beginning with mid-October (2011),  Obama's seven day average (per Rasmussen Reports) began trending upwards from 42/45  to 45/48.  Understand,  that the 42/45 average was the name of the game for two years.  With Obama's increased campaign efforts,  that rather static reality seemed to be on the rise.  There was much excitement over this circumstance among the very liberal media,  but,  in the end,  this "upward trend" was short lived,  and the 45/48 seven day average has proven to be the new static approval rating for Obama. You should know that this survey is more a popularity rating than it is an approval rating, despite is title.   Polling that is specific to Obama's economic/foreign/domestic policies, is much more germane to predictive function than is this approval rating.  In the end,  the country may "like" Obama,  but that is no assurance they think he is competent.   

Date	Presidential Approval Index	Strongly Approve	Strongly Disapprove	Total Approve	Total Disapprove
4/17/2012	-14	25%	39%	48%	50%
4/16/2012	-16	24%	40%	47%	51%
4/15/2012	-18	22%	40%	46%	52%
4/14/2012	-18	23%	41%	45%	52%
4/13/2012	-17	24%	41%	46%	51%
4/12/2012	-13	27%	40%	48%	50%
4/11/2012	-13	27%	40%	48%	51%

Obama continues to run negative numbers as to his approval rating and his "strongly approve" is outrageously poor.