Why is Obama sinking like a rock?

[Dan the Roman]

Everyone seems to be dropping. Notice that Rasmussen has his worst numbers for the GOP in his generic ballot poll in over a year, and the GOP seems to be cratering at the state level.

Things are out of control, the Republicans have proposed extremely unpopular solutions, and Obama has proposed no solutions. Obama is tanking because he has shown no leadership, and when the entire world(Libya, Gas) is going out of control thats bad for the incumbent.

[Dan the Roman]

Everyone seems to be dropping. Notice that Rasmussen has his worst numbers for the GOP in his generic ballot poll in over a year, and the GOP seems to be cratering at the state level.

Things are out of control, the Republicans have proposed extremely unpopular solutions, and Obama has proposed no solutions. Obama is tanking because he has shown no leadership, and when the entire world(Libya, Gas) is going out of control thats bad for the incumbent.

People are simultaneously reading too much and too little into it. Too much because they are inferring all kinds of things about the long-term trends of US partisan politics. Too little, because something is happening around the world, and it is affecting every incumbent government whether left or right. Heck, change even looks like its coming to Quebec where the Bloc may finally collapse.

Yeah, the public seems to be in a foul mood, and that's not exactly an exclusive American phenomenon. Just look how unpopular are Sarkozy, Merkel, Cameron, Berlusconi, Zapatero, etc.
The entire world seems to be in turmoil.