◼ OBAMA'S APPROVAL RATING BELOW 40 PERCENT IN 10 STATES - Wynton Hall/Breitbart
◼ THE 2014 midterms have featured many variables and one constant. Whether they’re running as incumbents or challengers, campaigning in blue or red or purple states, Democratic candidates have all been dragging an anchor: a president from their party whose approval ratings haven’t been north of 45 percent since last October. - Ross Douthat/New York Times
◼ Remember When Obama Was the Messiah? - Eric Owens/Daily Caller
President Barack Obama had an approval rating of just 38 percent as of late September and he is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.◼ Glub, Glub: Writer recounts the days of Oprah Gush. Like swimming advice, indulge at least an hour after a meal. - Discussion at Lucianne
This week, the man who once filled arenas like a rock star suffered the indignity of Wisconsin Democrats walking out on him as he stumped for another struggling Democrat, Mary Burke. Obama’s visit to Wisconsin coincided with the disappearance of Burke’s modest lead in statewide polls. She now trails her opponent, Scott Walker, by seven points....
The atmosphere has got to be pretty glum in the White House and in various leftist hothouses.... KEEP READING
◼ Obama has turned off voters - CNN
◼ Obama always pointing the finger of blame at someone else - Michael Goodwin/New York Post
◼ The measure of a man. If you are to blame, take it. Everyone knows who called chicken doo doo. - Discussion at Lucianne
◼ Obama’s Extraordinary Damage to His Party - Peter Wehner/Commentary Magazine
How much damage is Barack Obama doing to the Democratic Party? According to the respected political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, the answer is quite a lot. According to Rothenberg, “President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years: Have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row.”◼ To hell with the damage that he has done to the party!!! We should ALL be concerned to the "extraordinary damage" he has done to the country!!! - Discussion at Lucianne
Lots of empty seats at the Obama-Wolf rally as Air Force One landed. #PAGOV cc: @WolfForPA @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/TxB8n92xge
— PA GOP (@PAGOP) November 2, 2014
Pool: Obama spoke at Wolf rally arena partitioned in half: several hundred empty seats in 2nd deck, as well as empty space on the floor.
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) November 3, 2014
◼ POLITICO: OBAMA CRASH
'Bully pulpit gone, maybe forever'