Fewer than one-third of Americans say the Obama administration is doing a good job dealing with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, conducted with the Pew Research Center.

The poll found 31 percent saying the administration has been doing an excellent or good job dealing with the spill, while 57 percent said President Obama's team is doing an "only fair" or poor job.

Even among Democrats, the administration fell short of majority support, with 48 percent citing a good job and 42 percent claiming it was not so good. Only 27 percent of Independents and 13 percent of Republicans said the administration was doing a good or excellent job on the spill.

Perhaps the only encouraging news for the White House in the poll was that respondents were more negative about BP. Only 18 percent said the oil company is doing an excellent or good job with the spill. But about twice as many Republicans said the company is doing a good or excellent job -- 25 percent -- than said that about the Obama administration.

But while BP "is taking the heat for this now ... that could change if this keeps going on," said Carroll Doherty, associate director for editorial at the Pew Research Center.

Read more and get full results at our Congressional Connection Poll blog.

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