Despite all the talk from Republicans (most of it hopeful) about Obama being a bad president and showing numbers and polls and other such things that were obviously designed and/or stretched to fit the point they wanted to make, it seems the American people are standing by their president. Most current impartial polls show Barak Obama to be well ahead of any of the Republican presidential candidates at the moment. In fact, one of the more recent polls showed him to have a 43% approval rating and a nearly double digit lead over Republican front-runner Mitt Romney if the election were to be held today. With numbers like those, he stands a very good chance of being re-elected if things continue as they are right now for him for the rest of the year.

The boost in employment in January 2012 is only going to help Obama when it comes time to vote for president. Though the Republicans keep saying how the American middle class has suffered under the Obama administration, the actual numbers continue to prove this to be false. The economy was already bad when Obama took over the presidency from the former Republican regime. He simply inherited a difficult situation that was not of his making and has done very well with working to turn it around. He may have been slow to make any progress, but progress is difficult to make when you have to get approval from both houses of Congress to pass any legislation, and one of those houses is controlled by Republicans who have openly stated it is their mission to thwart anything the president tries to do. It seems as if some of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not really care about doing good for the American public and only wants to defeat Obama at anything he tries to get past them and made into law (even if his legislation is good for the country overall) in order to gain back the presidency for their party. For all of the talk of non-partisan politics on Capitol Hill, it seems as if partisanism is still the order of the day there.

In addition to the lowering of the unemployment rate in the nation, Obama has some other serious wins under his belt in spite of the Republican-controlled House, including a huge and beneficial overhaul in health care in this country that has helped millions of uninsured people (and Republicans are still trying to get the courts to overturn that health care overhaul, seemingly out of spite, since there is no other logical reason for wanting to overturn something that is helping people), and eliminating Osama bin Laden. Plus, Obama has a reputation as someone who can relate to the American public and who genuinely cares about them. He seems to be more "one of us" than most politicians, and certainly more so than any candidate the Republicans have to offer for the office.

So despite the rumors of Obama's impending defeat at the polls, it seems the American public is standing by their president. It is easy for most people to see the good he has done, the good he has tried to do (and been thwarted in those attempts by the Republican House), and the benefits of the things he has stated he wants to do for the country. The poll numbers show he is the favored candidate. If he can hold onto that trust and admiration by the American public until the elections in November, he has a better than excellent chance of being a two-term president, just like the two presidents before him.