Tout comme pour le Titanic, on disait d’Obama qu’il était insubmersible. Tout comme le Titanic, Obama a frappé un iceberg…

Même les pauvres abandonnent Obama. Au début de l’année sa cote de popularité chez les gens gagnant moins de 2000$ par mois surpassait 60%. Aujourd’hui sa cote n’est que de 49%.

Sur le terrain, voici ce que ça donne:

Now, the 40-year-old is rethinking her lifelong support for the party. She has been without steady work for two years, lost her home and car and began receiving cash assistance from the state for the first time. This year, she says, “I’m willing to take a chance on something different.” Another possibility, she says, is that she won’t vote at all.

Ms. Jones is part of an unmeasured, agitated mass: unemployed Americans who don’t believe the Obama Administration and Congress have done enough to produce jobs. With elections coming up, their unease is especially troublesome for the Democrats, who control both chambers.

A poor economy never bodes well for incumbents. Cook Report, the nonpartisan political newsletter that tracks congressional races, estimates that 73 House seats are vulnerable—including Mr. Schauer’s. This group has two things in common. Almost all (66 of 73) are held by Democrats, and most include counties that have unemployment rates exceeding the national average, according to data assembled by The Wall Street Journal.