HARD TO BE A POPULIST...:

If Only Obama's Performance Mattered More. (Rick Perlstein, 11/03/09, Daily Beast)

With too few exceptions, Obama very much not among them, the Democrats have shown neither the willingness nor the ability to foment populist politics from the left.

...when your ideas are so unpopular.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 3, 2009 1:08 PM