The new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows President Obama's approval rating ticking down ever so slightly over the last three weeks, with 54% approving and 45% disapproving, compared to ratings of 55/43 from CNN's last survey on October 16-18. And it's an even further decline from the results from CNN's poll from September 11-13, when Obama was at 58% approval rating and a 40% disapproval rating.

Why mention the September results? Because that was the last time CNN probed approval of Obama's handling of specific issues.  And its here that you can see how much ground he's lost with the public over the last six weeks.

Obama has lost a net of 19 points in support of his handling of health care (see the numbers below); 17 points on his handling of the economy; 17 points on Afghanistan; 16 points foreign affairs; 16 points on the federal budget deficit; and 10 points on taxes.

In fact, of all the issues listed above (which were the only ones asked on both the September 11-13 and current Oct 30-Nov 1 surveys), Obama maintains majority support on only one: 51% still approve of his handling of foreign affairs. On every other issue Obama has lost the majority:

Afghanistan: 42% (-7 vs. last survey Sept 11-13)/ 56% (+10)
Budget Deficit: 39% (-7)/ 60% (+9)
Economy: 46% approve (-8) / 54% disapprove (+9)
Foreign Affairs: 51% (-7)/ 47% (+9)
Health Care: 42% (-9) / 57% (+10)
Taxes: 49% (-3) / 50% (+7)

Again, for a true apples-to-apples comparison, you have to look at Obama's overall approval rating on September 11-13 (58/40) versus where it is in the current survey (54/45). That's a net negative swing of 9 points.

Overall, Obama's job approval rating in the RCP Average stands at 51.6%.