Americans are seeing President Obama less as a pragmatic moderate and more as a liberal ideologue, sending his approval rating down to 59% and his disapproval rating to 26%. That’s according to a new Pew Research poll released this morning.

A new poll by the independent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found that President Barack Obama’s popular support is eroding, with his approval rating dropping below 60 percent.

“President Barack Obama’s approval rating has slipped, as a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party’s liberals than to its moderates, and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals,” the Pew Center concluded.

Its new survey finds Obama’s approval rating falling to 59 percent from 64 percent in February. It also finds the ranks of Americans who disapprove of the president’s job performance rising, to 26 percent from 17 percent.

This actually backs up earlier results from Rasmussen Reports, which show his approval to disapproval spread at the lowest to date.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 36% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) now Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4, his lowest rating to date (see trends).

Many of Obama’s defenders claimed that Rasmussen is an unreliable, outlier poll used by conservatives to show results favorable to them. Is the same now true of Pew Research? I wouldn’t be surprised to see the discrediting of Pew begin shortly.

Via Hot Air.