Obama running to the right will shed even more of his support

[quinnox]

I was looking at the thread talking about Obama's recent declining poll numbers.

And Obama's numbers have been dismal for a long time now. The wrong track numbers have been consistently in the 60s for months. Thats right, over 60% of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and that hasn't budged for a long time.

Obama seems to have decided he will go even further to conservative Democrat land to try and save himself for re-election. But that appears to be backfiring, and I think it would be a fair bet that it will get worse next year, if he doesn't change course.

I was reading another article which basically said Obama's numbers and trend lines are so grim, especially with the independents, that it will take a minor miracle for him to turn these numbers around in time to not be easily defeated in 2012.

I wish I could be more optimistic, but its looking that unless Obama doesn't change his ways dramatically, which appears increasingly unlikely, or some kind of war or other disaster happens to have the country rally to him, we are going to have to deal with a new republican president in two years.

Maybe I should just pretend all is well in Obama land, and everything is rainbows and fluffy clouds and will turn out wonderfully. But I can't, I'm a realist and it doesn't work that way.