President Barack Obama's approval rating has risen to 50 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released Monday, his strongest showing in the survey since the spring of 2013.
Forty-four percent disapprove of how he's handling his job as president.
The improving poll numbers come one day before Obama's State of the Union speech, amid positive economic news and complete Republican control of Congress for the first time in his presidency.
By a 40 to 36 percent margin, Americans said they trust Obama over Republicans to "do a better job coping with the main problems the nation faces over the next few years."
People are starting to come around a bit. Maybe they'll tune in tonight when they wouldn't have bothered to listen if you asked them last month.
The Real Clear Politics poll average has him at 44.7%, his best number since October 2013 and the launch of the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. There's a lesson there for the GOP. Obamacare didn't doom the President. Failing to support it did doom the Democrats in the Senate.
We'll see if any lessons are learned headed into 2016,
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