"In any event, the final score was unambiguous. The stimulus package arrived with the price tag and on roughly the schedule Obama had set for it.
"The president's job approval percentage now ranges from the mid 60s (Gallup, Pew) to mid 70s (CNN) not bad for a guy who won the presidency with 52.9 percent of the vote. While 48 percent of Americans told CBS, Gallup and Pew that they approve of Congressional Democrats, only 31 (Gallup), 32 (CBS) and 34 (Pew) percent could say the same of their G.O.P. counterparts." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15rich.html?_r=1
