Premature Conflagration?

We’ll be talking about this more over the course of the week. But if you look at various polling data, it seems there’s a pretty decent chance that Congressional Republicans got well ahead of themselves in their collective August freak-out. A number of polls have shown that over the course of August — well in advance of the president’s relaunch of his health care push — opposition to reform peaked and support began to rebound. What’s more, the president’s approval rating — and particularly his approval on health care reform — has started to rise. And in what could be a critical development, the latest polls are showing a growing number of Americans beginning to credit the President’s stimulus package with helping to revive the economy.