After every presidential honeymoon, the responsibility and burden shifts to the new Administration. Nixon inherited Vietnam in November 1969. Reagan inherited the Carter recession in July 1981. Clinton made all sorts of errors that were self-inflicted by mid-1993.
If the economy is in poor shape in 2010, the GOP will make significant gains.
ACORN permitting ...
You forget that FDR is still credited in people’s minds with ending the depression. The power of propaganda is immense.