Presidential Approval Rating Bump

Following the presidential announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the slumping Obama approval ratings recieved a bump, around 11 percent on average. Will it last? Why/Not?


http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132502/President-Obamas-approval-ratings-up-11-percent.html

Or will approval fall, after the White House decided, "We don't need to spike the football?" President Obama says he decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse because they could put national security at risk and serve “as a propaganda tool” for extremists.


http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0511/denouement_7743118c-9268-4719-9213-4bf19f61b19a.html


An MSNBC internet poll showed 66% saying, YES, releasing the photos would silence conspiracy thorists.

Finally, the debate over the legitimacy of targeted killing ordered by a liberal democracy is laid out in the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/targeted_killing&fsrc=nwl