Be sure to take this with plenty of salt, but a new Pew Research Center survey shows Pres. Obama's approval rating down from 64 in February to 59 now. A fuller discussion from the esteemed Any Kohut of Pew is here. Kohut's top analysis point is that moderates liked it better when they thought Obama was listening to moderate Dems, but now they think he is listening to the liberals.

I can't help one snarky thought. A week or two ago, when the Dow was continuing to fall, many Republican commentators (I have Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity specifically in mind, but it was a widespread talking point before this week, even as Obama's approval ratings were sky high. Obama said day-to-day Dow movement was no more reliable an indicator than tracking polls during a campaign. Now the market (as of this writing) is in the middle of its fifth-straight up day, and Obama's approval rating, at least in this poll by the reputable Pew, is down. I wonder how many Republican commentators will say: disregard the drop in Obama's approval, the Dow is telling us that the country has confidence in him.

In the poll, the approval of Republican congressional leaders fell a bit more than Obama's did, from 34 percent in Feb. to 28% now.