While it is always risky to assign too much of a trend to just a few days of Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, there does seem to be a bit of an "Oslo bounce" for the President.A bounce backwards that is.Today's Presidential Approval Index by Rasmussen is -8.  This index is a snapshot Rasmussen derives by balancing the strongly approve versus strongly disapprove numbers.  Today the strongly approve numbers at 32% and the strongly disapproves are the highest they have been in several weeks at 40%.  Rasmussen uses a three-day rolling total average formula.  The index is down 5 points from Saturday's number and down 2 from Sunday.  The significance? Perhaps it is that today's index is the first index where all responses happened after the Nobel Peace Prize Award.Moreover, the Saturday index was Obama's best in a long time at -3.  That means at first blush, Obama got a Friday bounce from the award.  As the reality of the award's...(Read Full Post)