ANOTHER LOW - AT 5:54 P.M. ET:  Maybe the president's vacation among the liberal elites isn't going down too well with the public.  Gallup registered another new low for Mr. Obama today.  According to Gallup, only 50% of Americans now approve of Obama's performance, while 43% disapproves. 

The president is in trouble.  He still has a strong base of support, especially in minority communities and faculty lounges, but that base is dwindling.  At the same time, aside from pushing an unpopular health-care program, he's pushing a dismantling of the war on terror and an investigation into those who kept us safe after 9-11.  How popular is that?  Rasmussen reports:

Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters disagree with the Justice Department’s decision to investigate the treatment and possible torture of terrorists during the Bush administration, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty-six percent (36%) agree with Attorney General Eric Holder’s naming of a veteran prosecutor to probe the CIA’s handling of terrorists under the previous administration. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided. 

And...

Fifty-five percent (55%) of Democrats now support the investigation of the CIA, while 70% of Republicans and 54% of voters not affiliated with either party are opposed.

Poll after poll shows that the president is losing the independents, the key to political dominance.  It's too early to call Obama a one-term president, but we can dream.

August 27, 2009