The Meter -- Home To A Certain Team

We here at The Big O are very excited about the Super Bowl. But not this excited:



We try to have a certain sense of perspective, you know. Anyways.

John Warner: 10. Chuck Hagel against the surge? Check. John Warner against the surge? Checkmate. And the State of the Union is twenty-four hours away. Not even Jack Bauer can turn this thing around.

So, is the President going to double down, or issue a mea culpa and backtrack? We all know what the answer is--the chips are already moving in. Tune in tomorrow for a snarktastic State of the Union liveblog.

Speaking of which:

George W. Bush: .33. And the crosstabs are worse.

33% support him, but only half of those--17% of the total--"strongly" support him. So over four in five Americans are questioning this guy.

Right-track / wrong-track? Worst ever for this President, or since the federal government shutdown in late 1995, at 26-70. The last time the right-track number went below 20 was 1992, for the whole year. That's not good.

And neither is this. If the American people want to go in one direction or another, 25 would pick Bush's way, while 57 would go with the Dems in Congress.

And if the President says anything tomorrow night about Americans having to trust him, or anything along those lines? Well... his "honest and trustworthy" numbers are at another all time low: 40 to the good, 57 to the not-so-good.

Meanwhile, Congressional approval is up twelve points from its low point in October, and within striking distance (43-50) of outpacing disapproval. Pelosi's job approval is at 54%--beating Newt's numbers at any point in his four years at the top.

The point? The President says that he doesn't pay attention to polls. He had better start. No time like the present, man.