I was reading this article in Politico POLITICO-GWU Poll. FYI - As far as I know Politico is not a right-wing hack, it was started by men from the Washington Post and nothing on Wikipedia talks about bias.

Anyway, the numbers: The voters are very unhappy. Here's what I find very troublesome for the Dems, BO creates a great deal of strong responses, he is highly-polarizing. Now this can be OK if your enemies hate you but more of your friend love you. With BO, that is not the case.

There are a category of responses that are called strongly agree or strongly disagree. These are your most hard-core voters and political grass-roots supporters. In two different sets of economic question Obama has four times (4X) the strongly disapproving to the strongly approving. In both cases the numbers are about 44% strongly disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy while 11% approved.

And since basically 3 out of 4 voters state the economy is their number one priority that's a big hurdle to overcome.