On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> His national popularity hasn't fallen 14 points because of
> dissatisfaction
> on the left, it has fallen because liberals and independents who
> thought his
> administration would be more proactive, more calculating, more
> careflul,
> more dynamic and more aware of how the Repugs were going to play the
> game
> have seen - beyond a superficially good, but foundationally weak,
> speech -
> nothing like that.
I'm sorry to say that the independents are drifting towards the Republicans. They seem to buy the argument that O is too liberal.