The president should recognize that compromise is out-of-date. His governing approach has failed, so it’s time for change. Obama may be swapped out unless he concentrates his skills on winning control of congress instead of getting re-elected. Extolling others will be easier than trying to justify his record, and contenders he applauds may get voters [...]

Blame Occupy Wall Street on Barack Obama. Youth rallied to his guarantee of change, elected him and Democratic candidates by large majorities, and watched them quibble. Instead of repealing policies liberals hate, the President tried to schmooze the opposition. He passed some laws, but only after sanding off any roughness that rankled the Republicans. He [...]

Three years ago the nation surged toward the Democratic party – hard. Last year it fell way back – harder. This year a few states rejected new Republican efforts to reduce voting, union, and reproductive rights. Some pundits call this a pendulum effect, I say poor civics education created a generation of yo-yo voters.

Conventional wisdom says Obama will lose. His disappointed base may not volunteer, contribute or even vote. Democratic politicians he’s neglected aren’t likely to be surrogates. Reelection is rare with unemployment this high. Obama’s only real opportunity to win seems to lie in raising lots of money to spend on Perry’s primary campaign.