2012 Will Not Be Like 2008

Let's hope not.  Jim Geraghty offers some reasons and I think his last one may be the biggest of them all:

He’s lost his touch: For an allegedly great communicator, most of Obama’s efforts to move public opinion since taking office have fallen flat. He never moved the numbers on health care. He’s no good as a surrogate for Democrats, as Jon Corzine, Creigh Deeds, Martha Coakley, and scores of Democrats learned in the midterms. He and his team can’t resist overpromising; his team put out a laughable chart about how the stimulus would keep unemployment low, and by September 2010, “Recovery Summer” was a punchline.

Read it all here.

The One certainly doesn't carry the same presence into his live speeches that he did during the campaign. The rainbows and unicorns have long since fled and the reality of Obama the president is now hurting his image.  It was one thing to promise the moon, another thing to moon America.