Originally Posted by buckminsterfullerene

considering the severity of the situation, the disapproval rating is very small for Obama, we have seen presidents achieve much lower ratings before on their job and they were not this close to crashing the economy or in power with a 9+% unemployment rate. Actually, never has a president been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 5% and I feel republicans are using that as their strategy, purposely slowing down job growth in order to have better odds during the following election cycle. I really hope this backfires on them for playing games with the lives of the poor, unemployed and sick.

But alas, its all politics and strategies, I just hope people start becoming aware in much greater numbers of the dangers of the Tea Party and become active. Wisconsin is a great example of this, they are recalling many people and districts that have been historically republican and representatives that have been in positions of leadership for decades are becoming a tight race with the democratic candidates closing the gap and surpassing many candidates in key districts.

DFA (Democracy for America) and PCCC (Progressive Change Campaign Committee) are mobilizing with very surprising figures. They are numbering knocking on doors in independent districts in the tens of thousands and number of calls made in the hundreds of thousands (not robocalls) and with very effective ad campaigns highlighting personal cases.

Really, I think, and this is my personal opinion, that the fight for wisconsin they feel could become the precursor that could prolong the very bad image of the tea party well until the election period where people will be deciding who to elect. Democrats have already won in various districts across the country that have historically been used to sort of predict the outcome of future elections and gauge the feelings of the people.