Signs of failure emerging in Obama's poll numbers

By Hugh Hewitt 
Examiner Columnist
 07/31/11

Gallup is the gold standard when it comes to approval ratings for presidents, so last week's assessment by the polling company of the president's standing in the public surely shocked the Obama loyalists who thought that the battle over the debt ceiling had allowed their guy to shine.

Certainly he had every chance to make his case to the public, with press conference after press conference and a prime-time speech to boot.

The president wasn't pushed hard by his pals in the press room in the Q&A, and the coverage of the crisis was almost absurdly pro-Obama. But still his numbers plummeted to the lowest level of his rapidly collapsing presidency. the rest