Free Republic

The thrill tingling up the leg of Chris Matthews has become something else trickling down his leg. Democrats are worried that they will lose the White House in 2012 — and both chambers of Congress by bigger margins than the Republicans have enjoyed since Hoover. In a piece at Salon magazine, Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, openly asks about getting some challengers to President Obama in next year’s primaries. Noting that Obama’s approval dropped below 40% in the Gallup, Stoller wrote, “George W. Bush’s approval rating didn’t drop this low until Katrina hit.” That was in 2005,...