Apparently it has never occurred to our political pollsters that Barack Hussein Obama is the Bradley Effect  personified.  While our floundering POTUS continues to garner approval numbers hovering in the 50% range, his policies are judged much more harshly by polled Americans.  The Real Clear Politics  average,  for instance, reports B.O.'s job approval average at 49.4%.  His hand-maidens in Congress however, receive only 24.5 % approval and of those asked about the direction in which our country is going, only 35.9 % believe we are headed down the right path.  Just exactly who do they think is holding the steering wheel?

Obama was surrounded by wily operatives supremely attuned to the public mood during the 2008 campaign, taking maximum advantage.  He won the Presidency despite a total lack of useful experience and principles precisely contrary to those needed to manage the executive branch of American government.  Those same advisors have suddenly become tin-eared and hard-of-thinking, having either completely misread the wishes of the American populace or completely disregarded them.  The misleading trope of "Obama's popularity" is getting old.  In the super-charged atmosphere of political correctness foisted upon us by the Kennedy/Cronkite media and their allies in academia, the polling dissonance cited above suggests that most folks just don't feel comfortable reporting their dislike for the president.

Barack Obama continues to infuriate those on both ends of the political spectrum, while merely providing major disappointment to those in the center.  The combination of his narcissism and his love affair with the sound of his own voice have led him to completely over-expose himself to the point where the law of diminishing returns has kicked in.  One or two Obama speeches might be inspiring.  But according to the Political Hotsheet at CBS News Barack Obama gave a combination of 411 speeches, addresses and remarks.  How can America not be tired of his visage? 

To cap it all, an informed observer would have to believe that a likable President in his first term would have some useful coat-tails to extend to those members of his party in need of a little boost when elections roll around.  Well, despite B.O.'s large expenditure of Presidential capital as a fund-raiser, the formerly silver-tongued orator has provided precisely zero tangible help to struggling Dems in need of a lifeline.  Obama attended 28 fundraisers to churn up electioneering cash for his party in his first year in office.  Compare that to the 6 fund-raisers attended by George W. Bush in the same period.  In addition, the Big O attended 7 campaign rallies for his party in year one.  And here's the rub:

The rallies were for Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, D-Va, and U.S. Senate Candidate Martha Coakley, D-Mass. All of them lost.

                                             Obama's Grades:
                                              A: 19%
                                              B: 30%
                                              C: 24%
                                              D: 10%
                                              F: 16%      (Ibid TFK)