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DiANNA HEITZ
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday he knew that Barack Obama's sky-high approval ratings wouldn't hold up when he entered office.
"When we got the economic forecast in December, before he was president, I told the president, enjoy your poll numbers because they're not going to be this way a year from now,'" Axelrod said on TV One's "Washington Watch."
On Sunday, the president's approval rating was at 47 percent, according to the Gallup Tracking Poll. In January 2009, the president's approval rating was at more than 70 percent.
Axelrod said the drop isn't a sign that the American people have lost faith in the president, but rather shows that they're frustrated that the change that he promised on the campaign trail hasn't come yet.
"I don't know why anybody would feel like [the country] was going in the right direction when we're in a terrible economic time," Axelrod said.
