HARDENING OF THE ATTITUDES

President Obama’s approval index has improved significantly in the last week, from -13 on September 7 to -4 today. It was at -8 on September 10, the day of his healthcare address to a Joint Session of Congress.

The approval chart (updated today), though, shows a distinct hardening of the attitudes. Strong approvals (green) are clearly leveling, at about 30%. Strong disapprovals (red) are still rising, however, and show little tendency to flatten. The worrisome trend for Obama is that the undecideds (black) are continuing to jump ship and move strongly toward disapproval.


The trend lines are almost unchanged from a post earlier this month.