THAT'S ONE UGLY NUMBER FOR DEMOCRATS:

Colossal Miscalculation On Health Care (Charlie Cook, Jan. 16, 2010, National Journal)

As political analyst and data-cruncher extraordinaire Rhodes Cook noted in the December issue of The Rhodes Cook Letter, no other president in the past half-century has seen his Gallup job-approval rating drop as far as Obama's has in his first year (down 21 points), and no president in that same half-century has seen his approval rating go up, even as much as 1 point, between the end of his first year and the eve of his first midterm election.