From Harris Interactive:
…Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion. This continues the president’s downward trend and he is now at the lowest job approval rating of his presidency.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll of 3,084 adults surveyed online between October 11 and 18, 2010 by Harris Interactive…
…While the president is at a low point, there is a political body with ratings much lower than his. Just one in ten Americans (11%) give Congress positive ratings on the job they are doing while nine in ten (89%) give them negative marks. While Congress may be under Democratic control, even four in five Democrats (81%) give them negative ratings…
Not at all where Obama and his Democrats want to be a week before the vote. Generally, these sorts of polling results bode very, very ill for the party in power. They are the sort of results where, once the votes are counted, phrases like “historic” and “unprecedented” are applied to the shellacking the ruling part takes…