31% Still Back Commucare

In 2012, some precincts reported greater-than 100% turnout, with 100% of votes cast for Obama

Just 37 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing as president, compared with 57 percent who disapprove in a CBS News poll out Wednesday. The sub-40 percent number is the lowest approval Obama has seen during his presidency in CBS’s polling and is a drop of 9 points in approval from October.

At the same time, the president’s signature health care law is also at a new low. Approval of Obamacare stands at 31 percent, with disapproval at 61 percent, the worst numbers for the law in CBS’s polling.

(full story "CBS poll: President Obama, ACA hit record lows" at politico.com)

Norman Thomas Born, Nuremberg Trials Begin, JFK Unblocks Cuba

On this day: November 20

Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg (1945),

In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation (1962)

The (Newhouse/Advanced) Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam (1969)

The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA) for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating (1993)

In Lisbon, Portugal, President B. Hussein Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Islamist President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan (2010)

b: Irakli Tsereteli (1881), Norman Thomas (1884), Hu Yaobang (1915), Robert Byrd (1917), Joe Biden (1942); d: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1910), Henry Hyndman (1921), Buenaventura Durruti (1936), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1938), Francisco Franco (1975), Richard Cordtz (2006)

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