MESSAGING: Ten ways you know Obama scandal-management is a bust.

Check out the trend graph on the RCP Job Approval page.

UPDATE: Reader Rick Richman emails:

Here is a better chart, in my opinion, to show the state of President Obama’s approval ratings. It shows not simply the approve-disapprove numbers, but the intensity of the feelings within those two categories.

When the “strongly disapprove” percentage approaches the total “approve percentage” (and within the total “approve” percentage, the “strongly approve” is barely half), you know the President’s approval percentage is particularly weak.

Indeed.