There's a lot of excitement over today's YouGov poll.
Even with all the usual caveats, 44% is an encouraging result for us and 26% is an abysmal rating for Labour.
It's worth noting that all this is happening in the absence of a recession. The economic mood may be darkening and the credit crunch biting hard, but so far growth rates remain positive, the latest unemployment count was down a bit and we've yet to see a bona fide crash in either the stock market or the housing market.
That doesn't mean that things won't be getting worse, of course. But here's my point: If Gordon Brown is doing this badly without a recession, what on earth would happen if, God forbid, the economy goes off a cliff?
