Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is all over the airwaves these days but two recent polls indicate she's far from being America's sweetheart -- or presidential timber.

A telephone poll of 873 adults conducted Nov. 13-15 by CBS News showed 23 percent have a favorable view of the former Alaska governor. That matches her favorable rating in July, when Palin announced she was resigning from her job as governor.

Thirty-eight percent, meanwhile, have an unfavorable view of her -- also roughly matching her July rating. Another 37 percent say they are undecided or haven't heard enough. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

On the political side, a CNN poll indicated fewer than three in 10 Americans think Palin is qualified to be president.

If you're confused about what health care reforms would do and how they would work, you have plenty of company, according to a CBS News poll conducted Aug. 27-31.

The poll found that 67 percent of adults admitted they found the proposals confusing. Majorities of Republicans (69 percent) and Democrats (58 percent) say they're stumped about the mechanics of the proposed overhaul.

Sixty percent of those surveyed said that President Obama has not explained his plan clearly, a sentiment drawing majorities of Republicans and independents. A slight majority of Democrats say the president has made his case clearly.

Americans say by 65 percent to 22 percent that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does not have the ability to be an effective president, according to a CBS News poll conducted July 9-12.

Eighty-six percent of Democrats predictably hold that view, while independents agree by 55 percent to 30 percent. Even Republicans don't think she's equipped for the job by a 51 percent to 33 percent margin. Pluralities among all those groups - Democrats, Republicans and independents, don't think she will run for President in 2012.

The (minority) of Americans who believe the economy is getting better has dropped since last month and that's taken a toll on President Obama's approval rating which also fell since June, according to a CBS News poll conducted July 9-12.

Obama's approval to disapproval ratio is now 57 percent to 32 percent, still respectable, but a falloff from the 63 percent to 26 percent numbers he enjoyed in early June. That coincided with the percentage of Americans who believed the economy was getting better dropping from 27 percent to 21 percent, and those believing it was getting worse rising from 25 percent to 33 percent. Forty-five percent believed it was staying about the same.

Americans favor Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by 53 to 33 percent, according to a Gallup poll conducted July 10-12. Thirteen percent had no opinion.

A CBS News poll conducted July 9-12 said 30 percent believed Sotomayor should be confirmed compared to 14 percent who disagreed, but 52 percent responded that they couldn't say yet.

When it comes to whether the public views her favorably or not, a different question than whether she should be confirmed, the CBS survey says 62 percent of the public are undecided or haven't heard enough. For the rest, 23 percent see her favorable and 15 percent do not.

Americans are almost evenly divided on President Obama's handling of the AIG bonuses with 42 percent disapproving and 41 percent approving of his performance, according to a CBS News poll conducted March 20-22. Seventeen percent were undecided. Fifty-seven percent of Democrats give Obama good marks but 65 percent of Republicans and a plurality of independents (44 percent) do not.

That result differences from a Gallup poll released earlier today which said Americans were satisfied with Obama's handling of the matter by 54 percent to 39 percent.

The number of Americans opposed to government providing money to banking and financial institutions has steadily grown since December to the point where now a majority oppose such aid, according to a CBS News poll conducted March 12-15.

Fifty-three percent oppose these programs compared to 37 percent who approve of them. In December, Americans were nearly evenly divided with 46 percent approving to 42 percent disapproving. And these numbers could grow with anger growing on Capitol Hill and among the public over the $165 billion being paid in bonuses to employees of the bailed-out American International group. Forty-eight percent in the poll said they were resentful irresponsible bankers could benefit from the federal aid.

Three-quarters of those polled said the banks' current problems were directly the result of management decisions not economic conditions beyond their control.

President Obama over the past week has staged a campaign-style effort to build support for the big-dollar economic stimulus bill working its way through Congress - and a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday morning suggests that the blitz has boosted backing for the legislation and for Obama himself.

The poll showed 44 percent of respondents favored the stimulus plan while 40 percent were opposed. While still representing a near-even split in public opinion, the approval number was 7 percentage points higher than in a poll taken just a week earlier, when 36 percent of respondents approved of the stimulus proposal and 43 percent disapproved.

Obama also ticked back up in Rasmussen's daily tracking poll, which produces an "approval index" that measures the difference between those who say they strongly approve of the president's performance and those who say they strongly disapprove. The poll published Thursday showed 43 percent strongly approved and 24 percent strongly disapproved, for a Rasmussen index of plus-19.

While a narrow majority of Americans supports Barack Obama's $819 billion stimulus plan, that number has slipped from 57 percent to 51 percent since early January, with opposition to it rising from 22 percent to 34 percent, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 4-8. Republicans oppose it 64 percent to 24 percent while Democrats favor it 70 percent to 15 percent and independents by 49 percent to 36 percent.

Most of those opposed to the package (61 percent) think it will be ineffective, while 27 percent believe the price tag is too high and 9 percent say it represents "too much government."

A CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Feb. 7-8 had support for the bill at 54 percent to 45 percent.

President Obama's overall approval rating remained high and relatively steady over the past week, as he ratcheted up his efforts to push the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus legislation through Congress.

The rolling 3-day average in the Gallup organization's daily tracking poll reported Sunday showed 64 percent of respondents approved by Obama's performance since he took office nearly three weeks ago, while 22 percent disapproved. This amounted to a slight downtick in approval, from 66 percent last Monday, and a slight bump in disapproval, from 19 percent. Yet the plus-42 gap between approval and disapproval would be the envy of most politicians.

That might include Republicans in Congress -- the vast majority of whom have so far steadfastly opposed the stimulus legislation, based on their contention that it contains too much spending, and that much of that spending would be wasteful and would not stimulate the economy in the near-term.