From your source, Mustang.
Interviews with 1,015 adult Americans conducted by telephone
by ORC International on December 16-18, 2011. The margin of
sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or
minus 3 percentage points. The sample also includes 928
interviews among registered voters (plus or minus 3 percentage
points).
The sample includes 814 interviews among landline respondents
and 201 interviews among cell phone respondents.
I think what does need to be noted, is the breakdown of party affiliation.....which this poll lacks. The poll can be skewed so easily
Here's what >I< get out of the poll. Despite the fact that conservatives have been engaging in a constant drumbeat of anti-Obama rhetoric on TV and on talk radio, they seem unable to further drive down Obama's numbers even though the economy is anemic. However, the approval ratings for the Republican congress are sinking while the GOP presidential nomination process is in disarray with GOP candidates mired in numerous attacks on one another.
Here's what I get, many who voted for President Obama in 2008 did not approve of his performance. Not because they disagreed with his ideas but because he continued to seek compromises with a newly radicalized Republican Party whose sole intent was to block his efforts to lead and to capture the White House in 2012.
Maybe I 'speak' only for myself but now that he has come out firing, naming names and fighting back I'm once again a supporter. Given the cast of characters running for the Republican nomination it is obvious he needs to bring others like me back into the fold, least the unique style of American democracy devolve further into an Oligarchy of the rich and powerful.
How any sane and patriotic American could even consider voting for a Republican candidate for The Congress or POTUS in 2012 is astounding; the candidates for president are the weakest in memory and the Congress under a weak and obscenely partisan speaker has done nothing for the vast majority of Americans.