Guys, nobody except us cares about Syria or the TPP. If the economy gets better and ACA implementation goes well, Obama's numbers will go up. If they don't, they'll go down or stay the same. Nothing else matters to the majority of the country.
Republicans, conservative talking heads, and Fox News are to blame here for trying to turn
everything into a scandal right fro the outset including Rev. Wright/Bill Ayers, birth certificate, "studied in a madrasa", "redistribute the wealth", "death panels", "government is coming for your guns", "you didn't build that", Benghazi, IRS targeting, congress healthcare "exemption", to "terrible website rollout = failed healthcare reform".
They've cried wolf so many times on so many overblown and misinformed "issues" that legitimate issues for scrutiny/criticism don't gain critical momentum e.g. NSA abuses, drone strikes, and members of Wall St getting off their hand in the crash scott free etc.
Indeed, they've actually done themselves a further disservice by heavily tying the performance of Obama to measures like stock market indices and the unemployment rate which have both recovered (at least as straight numerical indices). They are doing it again with making fun of how many people have signed up for ACA so far.
Obama is going to get to the end of his second term, things on net will be a lot better than when he started, the sky will not have fallen, and conservatives are going to look like idiots who claimed as such while missing every real opportunity to actually ding the President along the way.
