OBAMA DOWN IN RASMUSSEN POLL - AT 3:11 P.M. ET:  The Rasmussen daily tracker on presidential approval has 56% of Americans approving of Mr. Obama's performance, 44% disapproving.  That's fairly consistent with Rasmussen's numbers recently, except for a brief uptick earlier this week.

However, Rasmussen has a "Presidential Approval Index," which reports the gap between those who strongly approve and those who strongly disapprove.  That number has shrunk to three points, the smallest gap yet for Mr. Obama.  Some 35% strongly approve, whereas 32% strongly disapprove.

April 3, 2009