• one You got financial reform through both Houses, ready to sign, but nobody knows what it is.
• two You’re polling at some of the lowest levels of your presidency right now, so don’t get too comfy.
• three The oil spill is at a very critical juncture, so you better be ready to get back down there. source

• cause Justin Bieber’s people put up a poll on his Web site asking people where they think he should tour next.
• reaction 4chan decided to vote it up, pushing the teen pop singer to communist foothold North Korea (ahahaha). source

• 40% of people have a positive or fair opinion of Kagan
• 36% have a fair or negative opinion of the Supreme Court nominee
• 24% are wondering who the heck you’re talking about source

• » How does this compare? Not very well, actually. People’s positive opinions of Kagan are lower than any of the other four nominees since 2005, including a full seven points below Sonia Sotomayor. The reason for this, mostly, is the high number of “no opinions” – most of Bush’s choices scored around 15 percent there.

• Lots of potential, but many Americans aren’t convinced. The new ABC News/Washington Post poll on bizarro hippies (not to be confused with the similar New York Times/CBS News poll a few weeks ago) suggests that the party has a lot of opportunity to grow their base, but could find themselves ticking off moderates in the process.

• 2% of Americans are directly a part of the bizarro hippie movement

Would you vote for these guys?

• 15% of registered voters are more apt to
  support a bizarro hippie candidate
  running for Congress (9 percent
  “much more likely”)
• 24% are more apt to oppose
  that candidate because they’re
  a bizarro hippie (17 percent “much more likely”)

Do you like what you hear?

• 34% like bizarro hippies the more
  they hear about them
• 43% hate bizarro hippies the more
  they hear about them

• » The neutral problem: There’s a large sub-section of the population that’s fairly neutral to the bizarro hippies – around 44 percent – and 45 percent of them really REALLY grow to dislike them the more they hear about them.

Understanding their constituients

• Bizarro hippies may be a movement built out of republican weakness. While progressives largely stand behind the Democratic party, Republicans on the other hand have trouble getting their political equals under the same tent, according to the study:

• 86% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning indie kids say the party represents their values
• 56% of Republicans and Republican-leaning indie kids say the same thing about their party
• 29% of Republicans would much rather wear a funny hat and tape tea bags to the rim of it

Who doesn’t like Obama? Bizarro hippies

• 84% of bizarro hippies think Obama is lamesauce

• 87% of bizarro hippies say race is not a reason that the support the movement
• 57% of evil socialists think race is a huge reason why bizarro hippies hang out and party together

• » Other notes: Bizarro hippies think that race is less of a problem in this country than the country at large, but they also tend to be more likely to be white. 81 percent of bizarro hippies are white, versus 74 percent of all adults and 65 percent of people who think bizarro hippies are lamesauce. Just as many bizarro hippies think Obama is doing too much for black people as he is not doing quite enough, which matches the population at large. source

• 22% of Americans actually trust the government source

• 46% of those polled say David Paterson should finish his term
• 42% want to throw the scandal-ridden bum out of office early
• 12% want to know why you’re bothering them source

• 67% of Americans don’t think that the GOP is doing enough to work with Obama
• 52% say the same thing about Obama working together with the Republican Party
• 54% say Democrats, not Republicans have to take the first step to mend the rift source

• 26% amount of people who mostly trust the federal government’s intent
• 51% amount most people trust their local government on a similar scale source

• 44% of respondents say they’d vote for Obama again in 2012
• 42% of respondents would rather vote for an anonymous “Republican candidate”
• 14% support a fringe candidate or don’t care one way or the other source

• 39% of Republicans think that Obama should be impeached for some reason
• 36% think that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. (thanks for that misinformation, Orly Taitz)
• 53% think that Sarah Palin is somehow more qualified to be president than Obama source