@barackobama Earth to the President: Voters and Donors You Need Are Checking Out of the Process #p2 #tcot

Disillusioned voters are checking out on Obama

Wake the F up, people. Do you really want Romney as President?! Obama won North Carolina by a sliver in 2008 (with a kick-@ss ground game and record turnout). And now Mittens for the first time holds a lead here.

"The presidential race in NC continues to be very close," Public Policy Polling Director Tom Jensen says. "This month we find Mitt Romney leading Obama 48-46. It's a small lead but it's still significant because it's the first we've found Romney leading Barrack Obama in our monthly polling since October.

Romney's gained seven points on Obama over the past two months alone. Jensen says Romney's small lead is probably heavily influenced by independent voters. "Romney's up to 20 percent of the democratic vote after being at 15 percent a few months ago," he says. "For a republican to win in North Carolina really requires winning over a lot of conservative democrats and that 20 percent of the democratic vote suggests Romney's doing a little bit better on that front."

Americans have such a short attention span; yeah, this President didn't give us all of the hopey-changey goodness he promised on the campaign trail, and I've been highly critical of his foot-dragging leadership on several fronts (yes, people, read my back catalog), but really — do people want Romney and his adviser Robert Bork packing the U.S. Supreme Court?

Considering the economic mess/slow recovery, the President has finally decided to cry uncle and declare the obvious — he needs more time, and the Romney alternative would be worse.

rest at http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/06/13/earth-to-the-president-voters-and-donors-you-need-are-checking-out-of-the-process/