Ruy Teixeira compiles recent polling suggesting that be the issue Iraq, education, healthcare, or the economy, Bush goes into the State of the Union facing a public at odds with his administration's agenda and sceptical of its record. He also argues that what went up - Bush's approval in light of Saddam's capture - has already made its way back down to earth. Liberal Oasis argues that this continues a pattern. Meanwhile, new polling shows Bush's disapproval ratings higher than those of any President in January of the year he ran for re-election in the past few decades.