Just when you thought you couldn't take another poll...
Swamp: Just a few days after a historic presidential election that played out against a backdrop of deep satisfaction with the way things are going in America, President-elect Barack Obama has gained several points in the public's image of the Democrat who won the election.
On election eve, the Gallup Poll reports, Obama's favorable rating among voters surveyed stood at 61 percent. In the latest results of daily tracking polls that Gallup will continue throughout the transition to the Obama administration and then into the 44th president's first term, Obama's favorable rating stands at 70 percent - his unfavorable rating at 22 percent.
And the fever of dissatisfaction in the nation has cooled jut slightly - down from 86 to 81 percent. No time to call off the ice packs, however.
We're wondering about the causes here: Realization that the next administration knows Africa is a continent? Rahm Emanuel's hiring as chief of staff? Obama's search for a pound puppy, a "mutt" like him? Fact that the campaign is finished?
