“I wonder if they privately admit to themselves that I was right all along”
Probably; here in NJ a lot of people were duped into voting for him. Now only the least assimilated minorities and most deviant homosexuals still have the bumper stickers. The other stickers didn’t disappear through attrition, as the post-9/11 flags did; they were carefully removed, often within the first year of Obama’s reign.
Well, my family's pretty liberal, but they don't fall into either of those two categories. Even so, their support for him has waned.
I flew back to California in April of last year for my dad's 80th birthday party. After the big party, we all gathered back at his place. Later I stepped out front for a smoke, and noticed that there wasn't a single Obama sticker on any of my family's cars.
I was actually shocked by that, but it sort of gave me a clue to why none of them were talking about him. At the time, Zero had only been in office a little over a year.