They don't want Romney and he's still competitive, that isn't a narrative, that's a fact, and acting like just because he's polling better means he is better is lame-O.

Why is Obama doing so well when he should be doing badly?

"If you look at the fundamentals," writes David Brooks, "the president should be getting crushed right now."
The rest of the column is an attempt to explain why President Obama isn't getting crushed right now. Brooks settles on Obama's "version of manliness that is postboomer in policy but preboomer in manners and reticence." But the premise of the column is wrong: If you look at the fundamentals right now, the president should not be getting crushed. In fact, he should be slightly ahead, which is pretty much where he is in most polls."

Klein

But, ultimately, maybe there wasn't.

What I know is that Gore was a dreadful candidate.
He picked Lieberman as his v.p. for god's sake.
Lieberman even looked bad going against that snake Cheney in their "debate".
Gore was doing his "sighing" routine against Bush and losing people by the millions in the process.

Gore didn't even carry Tennessee.
Gore also lost because of crooks like Katherine Harris and the corrupted Supreme Court. Blaming his loss on people who voted for Nader is just playing into right-wing hands. Now the left vilifies Nader as well as the conservative right.

Bush won because Gore lost.
And he lost because he ultimately stood for absolutely nothing.
No wonder people were not enthused by this wooden figure.

So - if people today are not inspired by the flaccid lackluster performance of the incumbent, it is not their fault. It's up to Obama to inspire people - to make them feel that he is trying hard and is on their side.

So far, he has been one big flop as far as that is concerned.

So a couple bullet points:
Gore Bush the same, pleaze.
ABG is not actually in politics
My issues with Obama are not related to the economy
The GOP has nothing to do with my opinion of Obama

I am so tired of this argument, Obama is the best candidate so STFU.  You mention not getting everything I want, that is pure garbage, everything ? I think you mean nothing.  Liberals have received nothing from Obama of substance, he has badly compromised away anything he has touched including health care.  Which I might add his party was in control of the House and the Senate and he still same out with a weak watered down 'Hallmark of his Administration'.  The goal was to get all Americans access to good affordable health care.  Failure.

Gitmo, please, to me the only reason you ask Congress for funds to move military prisoners when you are the Commander in Chief is to ensure they stay put.  He is to the right of Bush on Medical M, he's ready to 'compromise' SS cuts, he refused to hold war criminals accountable, not one of the souls responsible for the economy collapse has ever feared any real accountability.  Friday proves Wall Street learned nothing.  You fools keep acting like the economy collapse was so severe it will take decade to fix, yet not severe enough to go after any of the villains responsible.  Don't even get me going on Geithner or the wars, and the future wars in Syria and Yemen which we already have sent troops to.  He's down with assassinating Americans and using drones to bomb 'suspected' terrorists.  He was down with Bush tax cuts before the election cycle, ditto for denying gay people and equal rights.  The shame trials in Gitmo are an abomination of the Constitution.

Fine, he's better than Romney, awesome.  But really Donald, is this your definition of 'not getting everything', to me it's more like getting nothing with a nice bonus of extending many Bush era policies.

"And at some point, I'd have to say that the GOP undoubtedly succeeded at some level, because here we are, talking down our own candidates in an election year because boo hoo hoo, we didn't get everything we wanted. We didn't get Gitmo closed (blocked in the Senate), we didn't get the public option in the health care reform (again, blocked in the Senate) and we didn't get to see banksters perp-walked in orange jumpsuits on TV (because not everything that's unethical is necessarily illegal). So it's all Obama's fault."

Ding.

Over on TalkRight in the alternative universe they are spending their time blasting Obama and talking about destroying everything that people here say they hold dear.

We are blasting our guy because he only did half of what we want.  And the sad part is that we think we are helping the cause. If you hate your squad mate, you can go after him in the barracks, but when the real enemy is about to attack, you leave those squabbles until after the battle and rally with your fellow soldiers. That's the way war works.

We are arguing about the righteousness of the battle we are fighting and strategic decisions we disagree with and the guy with enemy wins lobbing grenades at us and laughing.