Obama has a historically bad economy, rising prices and huge deficits to run on and get returned to office. He has NO other possibility NOW but to go negative now and destroy Republicans, this should be no surprise.
I warn you not to underestimate him or to discount the polls showing Republicans looking worse than him.
Back in 2010 when the posts were flying left and right that Obama would not run and would resign and didn't care if he got re-elected I was one of the few ringing the warning bells, that he would use a Republican 2010 victory to turn the tables on them. And last year 2011 he kicked the crap out of them even worse than I thought. They walked into every trap, and I mam not optimistic about how the Birth Control fight went down this year either.
I have serious doubts about Romney's ability to take him on.
Please list Republicans in the House & Senate who have stood up to Obama on anything.