They trusted that he had real plans to get us out of the economic doldrums, and that he was not a radical tax-and-spend liberal of the old sort.
They took him at his word that he was going to end out-of-control federal spending. Millions of moderate Republicans, independents, and conservative Democrats - apparently angry at Bush for Iraq and big deficits, unimpressed by the McCain campaign, intrigued by the revolutionary idea of electing an African-American president - voted for Obama on the assumption that he was sincere about ending red state/blue state animosity. There is a growing sense of a “we’ve been had”, bait-and-switch. The Republicans - written off just a few weeks ago as an obsolete party headed for oblivion - are now often polling higher in generic surveys than are Democrats. A number of well-publicized town meetings have erupted in shouting, as administration and congressional representatives try, often in condescending fashion, to explain the Obama agenda.
Obama’s own popularity has fallen dramatically and hovers near fifty percent. The approval ratings on nearly every one of the President’s key policy initiatives - cap-and-trade, healthcare overhaul, government takeover of industry and finance, deficit spending, stimulus - are already less than half of polled voters.
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