Polls say Obama Stimulus Effort Backed By Huge Majority

Remember those days of endlessly checking polls? Guess we're going to have to do daily checks again. Jake Tapper of ABC points out that under-reported in the press is that Obama's stimulus plan has HIGH approval ratings (67%), while Republicans DISAPPROVAL ratings on the same issue are high (58%).

Sixty-seven percent of the American people approve of how President Obama's handling his efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, as opposed to 48% for Democrats in Congress and 31% for congressional Republicans.

In addition, the disapproval rating for Congressional Republicans remains a 'staggeringly high' 58%. And the public continues to view the package as a matter of paramount concern. 51% of those polled consider the plan's passage to be 'critically important,' with 'Only 16% say it is 'not that important.''

Read more details, plus an interesting analysis of Republican stimulus bill changes on HuffPo.