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| Health-Law Rollout Weighs on Obama's Ratings, Agenda |
"It doesn't matter if there's a crowd."
WASHINGTON----President Barack Obama, bogged down by problems with his signature health-care program, is seeing both his approval and personal-favorability ratings with Americans sag, creating new complications for his second-term agenda.
During past turbulence in Washington, Americans' approval of the job Mr. Obama is doing dipped. But in those stretches, Mr. Obama was buoyed by voters' general admiration for him as a person and by their trust in his credibility.
"No. Don't come up to me until you see me among a lot of people. And don't look at me. Just keep somewhere near me."
That has changed recently, particularly as thousands of Americans lose their insurance coverage under the health law's rollout, despite the president's pledge that anyone who liked their current plan could keep it.
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