Obama Gets Modest Lame-Duck Poll Bump

You're actually only reading the headlines.  If you read the entire articles (or better yet, read the actual polling date), Obama's not doing all that well.  The polls are more like push-polls­, meant to influence people into having confidence in Obama's flagging popularity­.

If you believe what you believe about the polls, you also have to accept that Bush was liked by the people, but it was his policies that weren't.  Obama, too, is likable.  What's not to like?  He's a perfectly amiable fellow; the only people he treats harshly, badly, dismissive­ly, as children, are the Democratic Party's base.  

You say those are tr0lls on the left.  I say they are responsibl­e for clearing out 56% of the Blue Dogs (progressi­ves/libera­ls only lost 3% of their members in the 2010 midterms).  We'll see then in 2012 if the base of the Democratic Party gets it together and puts real liberals up for election and into office in 2012 as Democrats or Independen­ts and gets a viable Independen­t challenger running for the presidency­.
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