Via Gallup:

“We‚Äôre seeing some slight hints of positive news for the Bush administration. For one thing, Bush‚Äôs job approval rating has stopped its downward trajectory. Bush hit bottom with his administration low point of 29% in early July (based on our USA Today/Gallup poll readings). Now ‚Äì in the data just about to be released from our weekend poll ‚Äì Bush’s approval rating has recovered slightly to 34%. That‚Äôs not a big jump, but it is the second consecutive poll in which the president‚Äôs numbers have been higher rather than lower.

Also, we are seeing a slight uptick in the percentage of Americans who say the “surge” in Iraq is working. That may not be a total surprise given the general tone of news out of Iraq recently, including the positive light on the situation put forth by Michael E. O’Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack in their widely-discussed New York Times op-ed piece “A War We Just Might Win” on July 30. But it represents a change.

Indeed, the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll itself found a slight increase in the percent of Americans saying that the U.S. did the right thing in taking military action in Iraq, and were so uncertain about it that they redid the survey. And found the same results.”

As I said in the previous post this isn’t good news for Democrats so it’s a signal for the MSM to go into the leak chest or run another old hit piece on the adminstration.