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The public's view of the Supreme Court jumped 8 points this past week. And today's Rasmussen poll attributes the rise to the Court's decision striking down Washington D.C.'s handgun ban. Thirty-four percent of respondents said the Supreme Court was doing an "excellent" or "good" job, 26 percent said that earlier in the week.

The improvement came among Republicans and unaffiliated voters, Democrats' views did not change.

The pollsters found that almost two-thirds of respondents learned about the decision quickly: "On the night the ruling was issued, 64% knew what the Court had decided. Among those who knew how the Court ruled, 63% agreed with the decision and 25% disagreed. Those results are consistent with polling conducted before the Court ruled."

Meanwhile, in Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll, Barack Obama and John McCain held fairly steady at 49-43 percent respectively.

The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points.