Still a bit better than his mid-October rating of 39/54, but hardly the kind of number that the White House would have expected after last Friday’s jobless report, which they tried to spin as progress

◼ Obama disapproval back over 50% in Gallup tracking poll - HotAir

So far, the class-warfare strategy doesn’t appear to be paying dividends. Obama gave the joint-session speech that launched his soak-the-rich theme on September 8, and his Gallup rating in the tracking poll at that time was 43/48. He managed to narrow that to 45/47 in mid-November, but for most of that time his disapproval has gone up, not down. When the gap has narrowed, it’s been more from lower disapproval than gains in approval, which has only gotten as high as 45% once in the past three months in this series.

Republicans might have worried that their lively primary fight might raise Obama’s stature ahead of the general election. So far, that doesn’t appear to be a problem.