Democrats facing steep losses

Tea Party types are not the only ones boiling mad. President Obama’s supporters are angry at a White House they think has grown insular, and at a president who’s lost his touch. The African-American woman who told Obama in a CNBC town-hall meeting this week that she was tired of defending him  expressed the searing disappointment that so many Democrats feel. It’s mind-boggling how poorly the White House has related to its friends, putting up a wall of cool and refusing to hit the panic button even as the Democrats’ congressional majorities slip away.
Obama’s backers were right during the campaign when they fretted that he wasn’t responding forcefully enough to the threat posed by Sarah Palin, who for a few nervous weeks had them worrying that John McCain had uncovered a secret weapon.
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