Donald Lambro     His numbers, as with other pollsters, show a
huge partisan divide in how Americans rate Obama at this point
in his young presidency. Ninety-one percent of Democrats score
Obama favorably, compared with only 14 percent Republicans.  On
job performance alone, 87 percent of Democrats rate him
excellent or good, compared with just 9 percent of Republicans.
But if Gallup scores Obama's job performance at 60 percent or
better, why are Zogby's numbers so much lower?  Zogby told me
that he uses a scale that ranges from excellent to good on the
positive side versus fair to poor on the negative. "If you look
at the fair rating for Obama, that was 12 percent. If you split
that, because some people think fair is approve, then you're up
in the mid-50s," he said.  In Zogby's differential rating scale,
"fair is a negative because it doesn't get you anywhere.
Presidents don't run on the basis of saying reelect me, I did a
fair job," he told me.  Other polls put their fair responses
into their favorable per