Now That Democrats Have Lost, Obama Is Popular Again

What a difference a few weeks can make. It was eight weeks ago that Americans went to the polls to hand control of the U.S. Senate and even more of the House to Republicans, after a campaign in which Democrats were more likely to campaign with Ebola than with Obama. It was a crushing, demoralizing defeat that was supposed to prove, once and for all, that Barack Obama was done, even if he couldn’t feel the fork yet.

Shortly thereafter, though, the President surprised the world by securing a major climate agreement with China, then delivering big on his promise to take executive action on immigration. Around the same time, President Obama flexed a little muscle by helping to defeat a Keystone Pipeline bill with a stealth veto threat. While substantively questionable, the President then scored a resounding political victory when he reached a compromise with Republicans to fund most of the government until the end of FY 2015, and beat back a Democratic revolt in the process. The economy continued to boom, even as gas prices continued to drop.

Finally, right before he went on vacation, Obama casually won the Cold War, shocking the world by ending half a century of hostilities with Cuba.

On Tuesday, the low approval ratings that have plagued the President throughout much of his second term, and which scared so many Democrats away from Obama’s coattails, rose to their highest level in over a year…READ MORE 

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