Gallup released a new poll on Friday morning showing President Obama down to a “generic Republican” by eight points. Obama only gets 38 percent in the survey, versus 46 for the GOP stand-in. It’s the second month in a row the President has been down in this rating, after the same poll in August showed him with a lead.
Of course, the dynamics of an actual choice between candidates in a general election are much different, but the poll underscores a trend: voters are just not enthusiastic about the President at the moment, and his tepid support in the Gallup poll seems to show it.