Well, the polling had Kerry running much better against Bush than the actual Nov. 04 Presidential election outcome - so if your point is that Obama would fare better against a Republican than polling would dictate, you are completely ignoring the economy. It's the economy pure and simple.
The NLRB actions against businesses like Boeing are a textbook case of the Obama adminstration's jackboot tactics. The reason that the 'gang of six' wants to kill a big chunk of Obamacare in the Senate budget talks is a reflection of the profoundly debilitating regulations it saddles businesses with. Look at what the DoE's senseless drilling moratorium on shallow and mid-depth rigs did to regional Gulf of Mexico jobs - those jobs have not come back. The list is actually very large.