[Minnesota fox]

I want someone smarter than me to explain: IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???”

[BJ1]

I want someone smarter than me to explain: IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???

What other option(s) do they have left? What is better post-Obama? I can't think of anything. Can you?

[Windflier]

IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???”

For the same reasons they've pursued their disastrous ideological goals in the real world. Belief is stronger than concrete results to these people. They're right - you're wrong - no matter what the actual results say.

[N. Theknow]

I want someone smarter than me to explain: IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???”

Absolutely! Why doesn't Idi Obama run on his accomplishments?

Oh, wait.....

[wayoverontheright]

IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???”

I agree. Liberals love for their leaders to go negative. They lap it up, and it has proven to shore up their vote.

So the question becomes what is it then, that is lowering his personal favorability?

If we look at things from the perspective of those who placed so much "hope" in him-liberals who suck on the government teat and the anti war faction (sometimes one in the same), then we can begin to see what's wrong. Remember, there were even some who believed he was going to pay their mortgage. Expectations of Obama on the left were far higher than he could possibly deliver.

His promises to the left have largely not been kept-Guantanamo, getting out of Afghanistan, he couldn't rescind the Bush tax "cuts", Obama failed in nearly everything the left expected of him.

I think his troubles derive from the high expectations the left had, and he's now being seen as a loser.

Losers blame everyone else for their shortcomings. Losers make excuses. Losers gamble. And gamblers lose. He backed OWS, he backed green energy, he backed the Harvard professor, he backed Trayvon. Losers all.

Drone killings are not appreciated by the left.

Obamacare was not on the average leftists voter's wish list when they elected him, and now they're asking "What's in it for me" and the answer is "not much".

Though those of us on the right see the Republicans in Congress as having failed us, the left sees that they have effectively blocked Obama's plans, and it's become one of his many excuses for failure.

Barack Obama has always been a loser, and now this fact is being recognized by those who expected so much more of him.