"resentment"? Maybe it just smells bad when the media lines up in the tank for one candidate. It's not resentment. It's just the curse of elite liberal endorsements and favoritism by the media. But it wasn't just Big Media favoring Obama. It was the silliness of the way they made him out to be some kind of messiah or deliverer. It got silly. People smelled a fake. A charlatan, puffed up on grandiosity. When something becomes kooky or it seems like the guy might be a little nuts, a certain number of people will back away. That's not "resentment."
The fawning over and veneration of Obama became kooky. He started sliding down right after the Berlin speech. When people got a chance to compare the two candidates at the Saddleback Civil Forum, that was enough.
You’re correct. Most Americans don’t like grandiosity in their political leaders, it doesn’t look rational. Europeans, at least some of them, have a record of loving those types. The MSM mistook Barry’s European popularity as translating to Americans, who were suspicious of it. We don’t go for all that “mystique” stuff in our political leaders. Even Kennedy had to play up his “I’m a good American like you” aspect. Of course, practically since Kennedy, ‘Rats have mostly been quasi-communist, if not outright, ever since. They don’t know how to appear as patriotic Americans, because they’re not.