King KTurner wrote:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html looks about the same as it has for awhile.
Let's ignore the Rasmussen numbers for the moment. Are you seriously looking at the second graphic on that page and saying that the numbers aren't trending downward for Obama? Cause you kinda have to be wearing special glasses not to see that the lines get closer as the graph moves to the right...
Rasmussen's numbers are lower than other polls, but it's a consistent offset. It's not like Rasmussen shows his numbers worsening while everyone else shows them staying the same. They're all showing a trend of lower approval and higher disapproval. The numbers aren't super important here. It's the trend that is.
While I didn't go check the methodology for every single polling source included in the RCP numbers, Rasmussen explains their outlying numbers as the result of polling only likely voters instead of all adults, and weighting the results based on political affiliation in relation to the existing ratio among all likely voters. It's not as useful as a thermometer of what "the people" think, but their methodology has been very accurate at predicting election results, which is what their primary focus seems to be.