Slipping toward 50%.
Just one percentage point now separates President Barack Obama's "approval rating" from the 50% mark, Gallup just reported.
Gallup's daily "tracking" poll on Obama's approval/disapproval numbers has 51% of those surveyed saying they like the job the president is doing and 41% saying they disapprove.
Before today, Obama's approval number had twice touched 52%, but not gone below that level since he took office on Jan. 20.
In recent weeks, all the attention paid to efforts at health care reform has weighed on the president's popularity.
His approval ratings in the Gallup surveys have consistently been well above those given to members of Congress, though.
Interested in presidential approval ratings throughout recent history? Gallup has data on them here.
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