I think there are a lot more things involved.  Certainly there are those who vote party regardless.  There are those who simply will not vote for a black person or a Mormon etc.  There are those who will always vote for the incumbent or againt the incumbent.  You can't do anything about those people.  Then there are those who are pissed off at both parties.  We know the repubs have as their goal getting rid of Obama for whatever reason, imo, mostly because he is a lefty.  There are those who supported Obama who feel he has not been a good President.  There are those on the left who didn't support Obama because they felt he wouldn't be a good President and have been proven right.  That one includes me.  I feel he has been a wimp for the most part.  He compromises on things that shouldn't be compromised on.  He makes a strong statement and then gives in.  The fact is, the chances are the makeup of the Congress will stay basically the same.  If Obama can't do anything but blame them now, then to vote for him is to vote for 4 more years of the same bullshit.  People want real change, not just words.  There is no candidate that will make real change.  I am not one who will vote for a little better than the other.  If you have proven yourself unworthy, you don't get my vote.  That doesn't mean the repub gets it.  That leaves people like me to have to decide how best to handle it.  Others who have the same problem look at the other candidates and look for a difference.  The tea party showed how people ran to people they thought were different.  Perry appears to be different.  Could he win because of that, and because, to many, Texas looks good on paper......yep.  He never has and never will get my vote, but he could pull this off.  The dems have to try to appeal to people who are pissed at both parties.  They have to tell us why we should elect him again.  He has to do more than the rah rah bs he did about the US and S & P.  We know what he was left with from Bushie.  However, at what point does he have to take the credit or blame?  He is blaming everyone else and everything.  All that says to me is he can't handle it.  The dems are not saying what will happen if we reelect him, what will be different.  I think he could very well lose the election if they don't start campaigning better.  We could end up with someone like Perry as President.

If you want real change, vote for a Tea Party candidate.  I don't get all these complaints about Obama.  Considering the state of the economy throughout his Presidency and the virulent opposition he's faced from the right, he's accomplished more than any President in my memory.  There are those who complain he isn't "principled" or doesn't "stick to his guns".  In effect, what such people are arguing for is a left wing version of the Tea Party and even greater polarization of the American political process.  If he had done what his left sided detrators had wanted there probably would have been no bail outs, no Affordable Care program, no stimulus program and probably no start on getting spending under control.  He went in saying he was going to work with both sides and he has done that.  Given the economy and political realities in the U.S. right now, I don't think you could have had a better President.

  

Maybe not dumb but certainly totally ignorant, desinterested, incurious, easy to manipulate, trained by constant repetition of soundbites, irrational and confused.

Obama compared to the entire Repug field so far is a better choice and that's saying very little.
The Dems need to find a candidate worth voting for.

They had a candidate worth voting for.  What they also needed was a collective backbone to stand up to the republitards and call them out on their BS.

They had a candidate worth voting for.  What they also needed was a collective backbone to stand up to the republitards and call them out on their BS.

Fine. Elect Bachmann/Palin.