Of course the intangible in all of this is... "it's the economy, stupid!".
Being a smooth talking professional BS'er can only go so far....if the "reality" means many people are still suffering with higher fuel/food costs, job losses, etc.....then my cat will be able to beat him.
...as the trillions borrowed/spent with little or nothing to show for it in the econcomy will sink "The School of Saul Alinsky" method's actor/Soros puppet-boy faster than Pelosi's face without botox.
It'll come down to the youth vote, if they forget about college loans and no prospects of decent jobs to pay for them...and instead listen to the Kenyan drum beat of MTV/MSNBC glorification of "The One"...and show up again in Nov. '12...he's in.
...if instead they use their head and grasp reality, he's toast.
He reminds me of the John Travolta character in the kid's film “Bolt.” Travolta plays a canine TV star who really believes he has super powers because the director of his show goes to great lengths to convince him that the show is real. Bolt gets separated from the set and discovers, to his great chagrin, that he doesn't really have heat-ray vision or any other super powers.
Obama has wandered away from his set, and he's discovering that all those things people have told him about himself since childhood just aren't so. It's pathetic, or it would be if it weren't so infuriating.