… This year many Democratic candidates find their future is in somebody else’s hands — namely Barack Obama’s.
Handicapper Nathan Gonzales of the Rothenberg Political Report says Obama’s sagging popularity is casting a long shadow over his fellow Democrats.
“If the president’s job approval rating was 5 or 10 points better, I think we’d be talking about a very different election,” Gonzales says. CONT.
Scott Horsley, NPR News