If you don't deliver more than pretty rhetoric - or just plain mess things up, even WITH pretty rhetoric... you can't expect people to continue supporting you.
New Hampshire independents abandoning Obama in droves: Poll | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles TimesDarn shame there isn't a vehicle called the 'Drove'. Then the headline would be both accurate AND funny.The crucial independent voters of notoriously independent New Hampshire, the ones who were so vital to Barack Obama's 2008 victory there and nationally, are fast falling out of love with the Democrat.
A new WMUR Granite State Poll of 500 voters by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center finds the president's support has slipped below 50% now. In the early 2008 Democratic primary there, voters preferred Hillary Clinton to Obama, 39 to 36. But come November they gave the Illinoisan 54% to John McCain's 45%.
Now, only 48% approve of Obama's presidential job, and 47% disapprove. The Democrat's decline mirrors a national trend though slightly lower.
"Quick - pile into the Drove and let's get out of here!!"
(Okay, I've got an odd sense of humor.)
J.