From the polling firm comes this headline today:

Obama's Approval Most Polarized for First-Year President

It turns out Democrats really like Obama, Republicans really don't, and there's a 65-point gap between the two, which is the largest Gallup has ever recorded during the first year.

What's more telling, though, is that from Gallup's polling data in recent years, we learn that Republican voters basically don't like new Democratic presidents. Period. By comparison, though, Democratic voters often give new Republican presidents the benefit of the doubt in their first year.

So, while it's technically accurate to say Obama is the most polarizing first-year president, it's also accurate to say that partisan Republicans voters have, once again, almost instantly rejected a new Democratic president.