With Willard looking more inevitable every day, this is especially bad news for the White House. The Everest-size electoral challenge facing President Obama is encapsulated in a single question in the latest Washington Post-Bloomberg News poll: Would the economy be better or worse if a Republican were elected president in 2012? [...] …the division, even [...]

Last week, we saw the return of “stop complaining” — and now it looks like “we suck less” is back, too.