Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can.The advice from Democratic consultants and strategists is almost unanimous: Run away from the president, and fast. A prominent Democratic pollster is circulating a survey that shows George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President Obama in “Frontline” districts — seats held by Democrats that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover. That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for outright fear.
Obama hasn’t even hit the halfway point of his first term, and he is already poisonous to his fellow Democrats. This is far beyond typical midterm election dynamics when the out-of-power party gains control. Obama has been welcoming comparisons to Bush since the beginning. It’s been, it his mind, his best message to distract the people from his failures is blame Bush. The problem he has now is when people compare him to Bush, they see that things were better when Bush was in office.
Don’t blame me… I knew things would get worse under Obama.
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