It will be difficult to defeat a presidential incumbent who can’t seem to ever slip below 40 percent and, in essence, merely needs to muster another 10 percent at election time. Picking up that 10 percent shouldn’t be terribly difficult with a public that prefers to know about who’s prancing around half-naked on “Dancing with the Stars” or who’s stripping on “Desperate Housewives” over bothering with trifling concepts like wealth redistribution, nationalization, progressivism, or negative liberties. One hilarious video clip shows Obama’s own supporters literally not knowing the difference between a Kenyan and Keynesian (click here).

It frustrates me when I hear conservative talk show hosts (Sean Hannity especially) shouting, “Obama’s approval is dropping like a rock!” Each time I’ve heard that, I’ve paused patiently to listen for the information that followed, only to discover that the president’s numbers weren’t dropping, or were barely dropping, and never below the 40-percent range.

Dropping like a rock? No.

Barack Obama has an incredibly devout base, made up of a handful of super-loyal constituencies. This includes the roughly 20-23 percent of Americans who are genuine liberals. Alas, that’s another frustration: Conservatives occasionally claim that Obama’s angry left-wing base has turned on him. Nonsense. Sure, liberals fume at Obama now and then, but they’re usually angry. In the end, those liberals will never vote for a Republican as president and against Obama. The left is too disciplined.