Just like you don't need a weatherman to tell you in Florida that it's going to be hot and humid with a chance of rain eight months out of the year, you hardly need me to tell you that Barack Obama is struggling right now in his popular approval ratings throughout the country.
On the verge of a double dip recession, the economy seems to be going downwards, something that wasn't expected nearly three years after he inherited a bad fiscal situation in January of 2009.
Some pundits have made an issue about a Republican winning Tuesday night in the 9th Congressional District of New York in a special Congressional race that has been in Democratic hands for 90 years as a portent of 2012 being more like 2010 than 2008.
Perhaps, but to CL, cause for alarm is a new Field poll taken in the country's bluest state, California.
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.