Media Trying to Spin Why OBL 'Bump' Wasn't Higher

If you take a look at the RealClearPolitics average of the major national pollsters, you will see that President Obama received about a five percent approval bump from the killing of Osama bin Laden. This is actually smaller than I thought it would be and apparently smaller than some in the media expected-- and wanted.

This brings us to an MSNBC article lamenting that Obama's rise in the poll should have been higher, but was dragged down by poor economic news. This is, at least, partially true.

But here’s what hasn’t changed: Just a third of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction; less than four in 10 approve of Obama’s handling of the U.S. economy; and nearly 70 percent think the economy will get worse or stay the same in the next year.

There is an attempt to find good news, though:

What has changed for the president since the raid at bin Laden’s compound: The number of respondents seeing Obama as a strong leader and a good commander in chief has spiked, and public opion for his handling of the war in Afghanistan jumped to an all-time high.

Huh.

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