Rasmussen Reports measures President Bush's approval rating at 56 percent:

This is highest approval rating for the President since January. On Election Day, the President's Job Approval was at 52%.

Forty-four percent (44%) of voters continue to disapprove of the President's performance.

Without the non-stop, 'round-the-clock, ad hominem attacks that accompany bitter partisan campaigning, President Bush's approval ratings settle into the high 50s. (In January, before the heat of the Democratic primary season, it was at 57 percent.)

Way down deep, it doesn't look like we're a 49-49, or even a 51-48 nation after all.