That's true, but Fred Barnes has a good item in today's Weekly Standard that the President after the election decided not to politicize the war. The last few weeks have changed his mind and now we are seeing the results.
BTW, Greg Palkot (sp?) did a great video essay of Iraq that was aired over the weekend. It was enlightening to see that there are places that Iraqis go on a daily basis that looks so unlike the quagmire that the leftists want us to see.
The Pres did not politicize the war, the Dims did and he is simply defending himself and his policies.
I think that's part of it, but I also believe that people are finally noticing, in spite of all the caterwauling in the media to the opposite, that gasoline prices have come down significantly and that the economy is actually in pretty good shape.