ALEX LIGHTMAN ON FACEBOOK: ” Just got off the phone with someone who has video footage of the ‘cleanup ops’. He says there is not much actual clean up happening, just enough for a show. Let me say it first: Potemkin cleanup.”

Judging by the polls, it’s not fooling anyone.

UPDATE: More bad-news polling here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more: “Gallup is out with a new poll finding that by a 51 percent to 46 percent margin, Americans don’t believe President Obama deserves to be re-elected.”