From the UK Telegraph: Midterm elections 2010: Prepare for a new American revolution

[Ayiekie]

Yep, they pretty much were. Also, people have the attention span of goldfish. Most Americans don't even remember anymore that the bailout was a (strongly bipartisan supported) Bush initiative, not the baby of Obama and the Democrats. Not that it would matter if they did. Reagan harped about how he was dealing with the mess Carter left him, and things take time, blah blah blah, and that didn't stop him from getting smoked in 1982 and all the pundits predicting he was an out-of-touch sure-fire one-termer (it's also pretty much what happened to Clinton in 1994, right down to predictions about how his presidency was also finished).