Obama's Approval Rating Jumps

The Hill reports:

President Obama's approval rating jumped into positive territory, according to polls done Monday after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Fifty-six percent of Americans said they approved of how Obama was handling his job, up nine points since last month, according to a Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll released Tuesday. Thirty-eight percent of U.S. adults said they still disapproved of Obama's job performance, while six percent said they didn't know.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll showed a more modest bump for Obama, but still had his approval rating in positive territory. Fifty-two percent of Americans said they approve of the way Obama is handling his job in that poll, up one point from over the weekend, but up four points from early April.

Obama enjoyed dramatic bumps in how Americans' see his handling of the situation in Afghanistan and the threat of terrorism in the Pew poll. Sixty percent favorably rated the president's handling of the situation in Afghanistan, up 17 points from Pew's early April poll. Obama's numbers on the threat of terrorism similarly jumped; 69 percent of Americans said they approve of the president's work to combat terrorism, up from 55 percent last month.

Like the Pew poll, Obama's numbers on the situation in Afghanistan and terrorism jumped in the CNN poll. The president got a seven-point bounce on both Afghanistan and terrorism.