We noted over the weekend that:

Even when announcing how “the public” is reacting to a news story, the press doesn't actually really care what “the public” thinks. The press decided immediately that the AIG story was a “cataclysmic” event for Obama and that “the public” was blaming him.

Polling guru Nate Silver digs through the data and fleshes out that claim:

But so far, and in spite of numerous assertions to the contrary inside both the blogosphere and the mainstream media, there's little evidence that the bonus controversy is hurting Barack Obama.