What's changed in 2 years? You underestimate the gullibility of the American electorate.
What has changed?
The introduction of the Tea Party Movement.
It is truly grass-roots (not like Pelosi says—”astroturf”).
I know young people now (20 to 50 age group) who never paid attention to the political climate before. Now they are AWAKE, ENRAGED, and READY TO ACT.