"... the race has become something far more unsettling to Democrats: a referendum on the president and his party that is highlighting the surprisingly raw emotions of the electorate. National Democrats, alarmed by a poll that showed the contest far closer than anticipated, are privately fretting that even a close outcome in a working-class swath of Brooklyn and Queens may foreshadow broader troubles for the party in 2012. " "The Siena College poll, conducted early this month, showed Mr. Weprin with an advantage of 6 percentage points, within the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 points. Few predict a Republican upset: registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by three to one in the district. But it is not uniformly liberal â many Orthodox Jews live there, for example â and even those closest to Mr. Weprin grudgingly describe the contest as uncomfortably competitive." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/nyregion/for-weiner-seat-gop-hopes-for-upset.html?_r=2&src=tp
BO is a product of the Keynesian-Great Society, which is rapidly approaching relic, non-functioning status. The time might be nigh to change horses in the middle of the stream. Wrong man at the wrong time.