Others laid blame on GOP lawmakers in Congress, arguing they must do more to stop the president’s agenda. “Republicans in Washington need to act and put pressure on Obama to veto conservative legislation or come to the table,” said Tim Miller of the Jeb Bush campaign. “There has been a lot of talking, but Republicans need to start getting results.”

Still others argued that Obama’s wins don’t say much about the merits of his agenda. “He won the [Obamacare] case, but just having the Court say it was legal doesn’t make it good policy, popular with the American people, or good healthcare,” noted Curt Anderson, a top adviser to the Bobby Jindal campaign.

Some saw Obama’s wins as tangential to the issues that matter most with voters, explaining that Obama is still a loser when it comes to the big stuff. “When the voters start giving the president credit for a booming economy and a globe-spanning string of foreign policy successes, then the Republicans will have to worry,” said Vin Weber, a longtime GOP strategist who is an outside adviser to the Bush campaign.