Gallup: Obama job approval 48/44

Gallup has been much more pessimistic when it comes to Obama's job approval than other pollsters. Because of that, right-leaning pundits and analysts tend to rely on Gallup's figures a lot to make their cases. This might get harder, as Obama's job approvals with Gallup have been improving. Twice last week, Obama hit 49% approval - 49/44 two days straight. And the last results showed him narrowly "above water" at 47/46.

GALLUP DAILY

Mar 21-23, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change

Obama Approval

48%

Obama Disapproval

44%

 Also, let's take a look at Pollster.com's Romney vs. Obama charts, excluding Rasmussen:

Now, let's take a look at the same chart, only including Rasmussen:

See the difference that Rasmussen makes? By swamping the pool with his daily tracker, Scotty exercises undue influence over the narrative.
Rasmussen cuts Obama's support by one point, and increases Romney's support by 1.2 points.