As long as his media buddies can keep up the illusion, you bet he'll still feel that way.
What'll be interesting is what happens as the bubble bursts. It happened with Carter. There was really no one epiphany, though. The MSM just sort of silently withdrew their support. They didn't have the energy to cheer for him. Of course, things were pretty bad for the ordinary Joe, too. If they had kept up the cheerleading, they would have looked stupid. I mean, more stupid.
Well, that's kind of my point. I see hints that the "withdrawal" process has already started. Certainly the media is not nearly as uniformly ga-ga as originally.