New polls indicate President Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time.
According to Public Policy Polling, 49 percent of voters approve of Obama's work compared to 46 percent who disapprove.
That mirrors the findings of a Quinnipiac University poll that found 74 percent of American voters "like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like most of his policies."
"This is the first time President Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 (percent) in our polling," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. "It does seem that the health care issue is hurting him some with independents who voted for him last year."
Meanwhile, Public Policy Polling also found that 26 percent of Americans think ACORN stole the election for Obama in 2008. Not surprisingly, 52 percent of Republicans feel that way.
"Most Americans like President Barack Obama and might like to have a beer with him," Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a news release. "But millions of voters who sided with him last November because they thought he would bring change to Washington aren't crazy about the kind of change he is trying to bring.
"That is especially true of independent voters, many of whom used to be Republicans turned off by the Bush years," Brown added. "They may not yet have returned to their former political home, but many have concluded Obama isn't offering their kind of solutions."
On health care, for example, voters disapprove of Obama by a 53-41 percent margin, the Quinnipiac poll found.
"The President's lower policy approval may be a warning sign for the White House that they need to better align their programs with the views of the American people, or better explain to the American people what they're trying to do," Brown said.
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