It's about his policies | obama, congress, percent - Opinion - The Orange County Register

It's about his policies | obama, congress, percent - Opinion - The Orange County Register:

WASHINGTON – A president's first midterm election is inevitably a referendum on his two years in office. The bad news for Democrats is that President Obama's 're-elect' number is 38 percent – precisely Bill Clinton's in October 1994, the eve of the wave election that gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

Yet this same poll found that 65 percent view Obama favorably 'as a person.' The current Democratic crisis is not about the man – his alleged lack of empathy, ability to emote, etc., requiring remediation with backyard, shirt-sleeved shoulder rubbing with the folks – but about the policies."