Voters are evenly divided at 46 percent on whether they approve or disapprove of the way President Obama is doing his job as president, according to a Fox News poll taken Nov. 17-18.

Fox said 46 percent marked a low point in Obama's approval since taking office, which has averaged 56 percent. The high point for his approval in a Fox News poll came a week after his inauguration when it was 65 percent.

Low point or not, the president is better at his job than Congress, which has an approval rating of 26 percent and disapproval of 63 percent, according to the Fox poll.

Forty-nine percent of registered voters oppose the plans they have seen for overhauling the American health care system, while 34 percent support the plans, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted Aug. 11-12.

The same poll said President Obama's approval rating stands at 53 percent while his disapproval is 40 percent. Although his approval has declined while his disapproval has gone up, the president still is held in higher regard than Congress, which has a 30 percent approval rating with 59 percent disapproval.

The poll also found 35 percent of people worried that they and their families would be worse off if the plans were adopted; 20 percent thought they would be better off; and 37 percent said it would not make any difference.

The poll was based on telephone interviews with 900 registered voters and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Three Republicans are bunched within five points of each when potential GOP presidential candidates are matched up for 2012 with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney barely on top, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted July 21-22. The margin of error for the part of the survey dealing only with Republican voters is 6 points.

Romney leads with 22 percent, followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 21 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 17 percent. Former New York City mayor (we're dealing with a lot of "formers" here) Rudi Giuliani polls 13 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gets 9 percent and by the time we get to an elected official, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, he scrapes together 3 percent. Ten percent say it's too soon to decide.

Other recent polls have varied on the 2012 results. A Washington Post/ABC News survey conducted in mid-July had Huckabee on top while a July 10-12 Gallup poll favored Romney. Several recent polls made clear that voters overall don't want to see Palin as president.

A majority of Americans favor confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, according to a new Fox News/Opinion Dynamic Poll conducted July 21-22. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed said they would vote to confirm Sotomayor, up from 46 percent in an early June survey.

As in the Senate, Sotomayor fared better with Democrats -- 72 percent of whom favored confirmation -- compared to Republicans, only 29 percent said they would vote yes. An even higher proportion -- 62 percent -- agreed that Sotomayor and other recent nominees, "say what they have to for confirmation" rather than "answer the questions honestly."

Nevertheless, Sotomayor's overall favorability increased to 41 percent, compared to 36 percent in June, though 15 percent of those surveyed say they have never heard of her. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus three points.

President Obama's approval-to-disapproval numbers have dropped to 54 percent to 38 percent, down from 62 percent to 31 percent in early June, and voters disapprove of how he's handling health care by 45 percent to 43 percent, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted July 21-22. The margin of error is 3 points.

One factor in the erosion of Obama's marks is that independents now approve of his performance by a 54 percent to 36 percent ratio, a significant falloff from the 66 percent to 26 percent he enjoyed in June.

Voters are split, 49 percent to 48 percent, on whether they want Congress to pass a major health care overhaul this year. Fifty-one percent don't think the Obama administration has a clear plan for health care. Asked whether they favored or opposed the package being put together on Capitol Hill based on what they know, voters oppose it 47 percent to 36 percent.

About two-thirds of voters believe that President Obama has not been tough enough with the two nations - North Korea and Iran - that have raised serious concerns about their nuclear ambitions, and those numbers include a majority of Democrats, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted June 9-10.

Sixty-nine percent say Obama has not been tough enough on North Korea, including 65 percent of Democrats, and 66 percent say he has not been tough enough on Iran, including 57 percent of Democrats.

Voters say by 46 percent to 32 percent that if they were making the decision on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court they would confirm her, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted June 9-10. Twenty-two percent were undecided.

Republicans say they would not confirm her by a 55 percent to 19 percent margin, while Democrats back the choice 69 percent to 12 percent and independents by 46 percent to 33 percent.

Two new polls report strong voter disapproval of the government's decision to up its investment in General Motors to a total of $50 billion which makes it the biggest stakeholder in the bankrupt auto company.

A Gallup poll conducted June 9-10 found 55 percent of Americans opposed to the move while 41 percent approved. The net disapproval was 16 to 19 points in every region except the Midwest, the home of the domestic industry, where the margin of those against to those who supported it was 50 percent to 46 percent.

We often bring you political match-ups in polls, but this is a kind of first.

President Obama trumps the Pope and Tiger Woods when it comes to who voters would rather meet and have their picture taken with, and Hannah Montana runs a distant fourth, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted June 9-10. (Question 54 in the poll).

Obama managed to eke out a 2-to-1 victory over the closest contenders among three other choices provided by Fox, with 42 percent wanting to pose with him, compared to 22 percent who picked Woods, 21 percent who preferred the Pontiff and only 5 percent who felt drawn to Montana.

There was a sharp partisan divide on this question. Republicans favored Woods by 34 percent although the Pope was a close second at 31 percent, so His Holiness managed at least a statistical tie for second among this group since the margin of error was 3 points. Obama got 16 percent and Montana again brought up the rear at 7 percent. Independents chose Obama over Woods by 38 percent to 28 percent, with the Pope at 18 percent and Montana at 4 percent. Sixty-eight percent of Democrats picked Obama as a photo-mate, with the Pope at 16 percent and Montana and Woods in single digits.

There's something to read into that, but we don't know quite what.

One more Fox you-need-to-know result: Although President Obama says he has quit smoking cigarettes, 37 percent of voters believe he is still sneaking in some smokes while 30 percent believe he has completely quit. (Thirty-three percent wouldn't hazard a guess).

Eighty-two percent of voters are very or somewhat concerned about the current situation in Pakistan and 56 percent believe there is a chance the Taliban will get control of the nation's nuclear weapons, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted May 12-13.

The poll results were released on the heels of a report in the New York Times saying that Pakistan is "rapidly adding" to its nuclear arsenal even while struggling to contain the Taliban insurgency.