In every off-year and midterm election of his presidency, Obama tried very hard to rally his faithful for other candidates, including in the special election for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Obama failed, often spectacularly. After losing the Senate in 2014, Obama petulantly said he heard the voters but added: “To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.”

Whatever he meant by that, it was also an implicit concession that the Obama coalition isn’t a proletarian reserve army that can be mobilized at will, even by Obama.

The Clinton campaign has hired many of Obama’s consultants and gurus in the hopes that they can do for her what they allegedly did for him. They’ve even tried to replicate Obama’s signature “O” logo into an exciting “H,” which mostly looks like a road sign pointing to the next exit for a hospital.