We’ve spent a long time with the President’s approval rating hovering just slightly underwater, in the single digits, trending toward double digits.  Some polls you can count as reliably red-shifted.  For example, polls from The Economist/YouGov are always 10 full points removed from what the rest of America was thinking about Presidential Job Approval.  Less egregious, but always with a pink tinge is Rasmussen or, as I like to refer to them, Rrrrasmussen, due to them always being in the ballpark, but always slanted Republican.

But something strange has happened in the last several weeks.  All of Barack’s approval rating numbers have been trending UP, and if it weren’t for the Economist/YouGov outliers, the RealClearPolitics average of polls would show him with a net POSITIVE rating for the first time in almost 3 years.

I noticed the shift in trend and have been watching it.  It seems that any polls taken after February 13 show the new bump in popularity.  But his approval on the economy, his approval on foreign policy and approval for ACA have all remained at their normal, very negative, numbers.

What ever could have happened in that time frame?

Oh yeah…

Nino Scalia kicked the bucket, and America finally had a chance to have a reality-based SCOTUS.  But then, within 24 hours, THIS guy opened up his turtly beak and quoth, “NONE SHALL PASS!”  And all his Merrye Bundists said the same.

Suddenly, Obama’s approval rating started heading north, from exactly that date.  Real Americans don’t like it when you actually mess with the Constitution.  This is the first indicator I’ve seen that this Republican intransigence could PLAY throughout the election.  Thanks, Mitch!

~Primo