[Windflier]

Some Democratic candidates running for local office around the country call the phenomenon the "Obama hangover."

Well, he's had his ugly mug on tv nearly every day since he was elected. People are just fatigued by all of the over-exposure.

I read on another thread that Obama spoke to a half-filled ballroom of some Democrat candidate's supporters. If he can't even fill a ballroom with faithful Democrats within his first year in office, you know his mojo's gone for good.

[jimbo123]

A half-filled ballroom in BOSTON.

[thecodont]

At least part of this is due (I think) to the fact that there were people who got out to vote for BO on Nov. 4, 2008 who ordinarily wouldn’t bother to get to the polls for any other election. These people don’t care about civic participation in general, much less voting for Democrats.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Not just any Democrat candidate. Deval Patrick, the Obama test-run. The first ‘yes we can’ candidacy. And in MA, no less.