I don't understand these numbers at all. The popularity rating makes sense, everyone is still in the honeymoon period but the wrong direction makes no sense. Maybe it's a poling or data anomaly? Regardless, I think the clouds will clear and it will become apparent to a bigger portion of the population that the whole budget thing and the massive debt are really bad. That business will pull back from investment/risk, and the 70's era of inflation could return in harsh ways. We can't hope our way out of that. I predict that as more people wake up to this reality they will be less supportive of congress and the whole big government plan.