That has been the norm recently. But it wasn't for FDR. THe depression deepened under him but voters didn't care. They had an emotional attachment to him. FDR was trying. He ws doing something. For them. When that bond is made, it is almost unbreakable. We've all met people today who voted for FDR and think the same of him now as they did in 1938.
Bush isn't all the way to the relationship FDR had with voters. Times aren't as threatening. But he is close. And there is no one even on the horizon the majority trusts more.
Even FDR, socialist that he was, did not leave our borders wide open to a mass invasion from a foreign country. Or promote trade agreements that shipped millions of manufacturing jobs overseas. Or look the other way when American technology companies decided that many thousands of hi-tech jobs should go to imported H1b immigrants...with umpteen thousands of other jobs just plain "outsourced" to India and China.
Given the current trends of this madness, next year should be REAL INTERESTING. I don't think Bush can escape his complicity in this, especially when his fingerprints are all over it.