THE HALF ! Gallup,NBC,Pew,Rasmussen have Obama's approval at 51%

*NBC/Wall Street Journal Survey on Health Care:
In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job that Barack Obama is doing as president?
* Approve 51%
* Disapprove 40%

Do you generally approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing in handling the issue of health care reform?
* Approve 41%
* Disapprove 47%

*Gallup: :
Gallup's daily "tracking" poll on Obama's approval/disapproval numbers has 51% of those surveyed saying they like the job the president is doing and 41% saying they disapprove.

*Rasmussen:
...Overall, 51% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

*Pew Research:
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Aug. 11-17 in English and Spanish among 2,010 adults reached on landlines and cell phones, finds that 51% now approve of Obama’s job performance while 37% disapprove. While that is largely unchanged from July (54%), it is down 10 points from June (61%).

Independents, who approved of Obama’s job performance by nearly two-to-one in June (56% to 29%) are now about evenly divided: 45% approve while 43% disapprove.