I've said i for a year - i have no idea how he's right around 50%, despite his leftist first year.
Rudy guiliani and I have both said he'll go center around election time in 2010 and 2012, much the way we've seen mccain's voting recod go from 56% vs repubs to 80% vs repubs as soon as he has a primary challenger.
He *should* be in the 30s... but this gallup shows that 9 in 20 Americans would still fist-bump him and smile, no matter what.
Plus, Mccain only got 45.7% of the popular vote in 2008. So statistically, 46% still ain't that bad. Once he catches a big bad guy or does something else really big (in case you didn't know, presidents do have a lot of influence on these things), he'll get a bump back up. We're at the absolute lowest of this healthcare shit sandwich - and still, 46%.