Barack Obama can seem to do little wrong in the eyes of the public. About 71% of Americans approve of his efforts in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll. The results, which show that just 14% disapprove of him, are largely unchanged from December. President Bush, by contrast, will leave office with a 34% approval rating, the lowest since Nixon, CBS reports. Bush's disapproval rating in the Gallup Poll is 61%.

It's just amazing to me how quickly people around here jump on the bandwagon of negative judgments against Obama, but simply disregard positive judgments, because "he's not in office yet".

The Post reported this morning that LaHood, a seven-term Republican Congressman from Illinois who retired last month, has close ties to a Republican power-broker indicted in the pay-to-play scandal that also led to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's recent arrest. The story also documented LaHood's sponsorship of $60 million in congressional earmarks last year, and how at least $9 million of them directly benefited his top campaign donors."

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Dr. Love, I'm thinking they are judging him on his handling of the transition, his stimulus package, his proposals for the future, the people he's picking for his cabinet and his bipartisan actions such as Dining with Conservative Columnists. Regardless what the 14% thinks, most people are approving of his handling of things so far.