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Pew attributes Obama's slippage in its poll to a change in public perception about his political leanings, with respondents saying by 44 percent to 30 percent that he is listening more to liberals versus moderates, compared to 44 percent who said in February that he was listening more to moderates while 34 percent said it were liberals that had his ear.

However, this is not working to the benefit of congressional Republicans. Fifty-one percent in the poll disapprove of the job performance of GOP leaders, the same level as in February, but the Republican's approval rating has fallen from 34 percent to 28 percent. The approval rate for party leaders among Republicans was 43 percent to 37 percent, down from 55 percent to 33 percent in February. The job approval figure for congressional Democrats is 47 percent.

Republicans are also groping for a leader, as a recent Rasmussen Reports poll also found. Asked who they thought the leader of the Republican Party was, 73 percent said either they didn't know, or nobody was. Eleven percent named Sen. John McCain, 5 percent named radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and everyone else was at 2 percent or less. While only 5 percent named Limbaugh, 39 percent said he had too much influence over the GOP.