◼ The straw poll from this week’s Take Back the American Dream Conference show that the left’s hope that President Obama would be a great transformational leader has waned since 2008. - Red Alert Politics
Less than half of the 209 conference attendees said they felt hopeful about the president at 46 percent, while 35 percent expressed dissatisfaction with him and a further 31 percent were concerned about his performance. Only 11 percent said they were enthusiastic about Obama.