When Obama loses Chris Matthews, he of the "tingle down my leg," things are really going bad in a hurry. In two months he has estranged his biggest supporters in the media, not to mention earned the enmity of a lot of people in the South.

I'm amazed at the outright anger from members of the media and his own party. The GOP should be studying the situation he finds himself in and focus on not blowing their chances for the fall.

I feel no schadenfreude here; just a sad sense of my premonitions being fulfilled.