Barack Obama has been tap-dancing like mad since Scott Brown's election victory in Massachusetts, and he had every reason to expect that his personal intervention would sway the public back to his side--after all, he is the Messiah.

After his best soft shoe, break-dancing head-spin and moonwalk, the audience sits in stony silence.

Nobody is buying it.

The American people overwhelmingly reject the basics of Keynesian economics: only 11% believe more deficit spending is needed to spur the economy while 70% say deficit cutting is the answer.

Obama's popularity among likely voters is down to 44% and trending downwards. The bounce he got from the State of the Union has disappears as quickly as it came. Even more ominous is the fact that only 26% of the electorate 'strongly approve' of his job performance, while 41% strong disapprove.