Reality begs to differ.
Via Penn Ave:
The White House on Monday downplayed a slew of polls showing the public losing confidence in President Obama amid the botched rollout of his health care reform law.
“We don’t follow the ups and downs of individual polls,” White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One, traveling with President Obama to San Francisco. “What we are looking at are the broader trends.”
A number of polls in recent weeks have shown Obama hitting new lows in his approval rating and with record numbers questioning his trustworthiness and managerial competence.
A CNN/ORC poll released Monday morning was the latest to show the toll the trouble-plagued healthcare.gov website and the millions of insurance plan cancellations are having on the president.