"Americans Have Had It with Obama and Congress" --Atlantic Wire

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13. Racism plays a role, it's hard to say how much--but what that racism does is

add an extra layer of people who will never approve of him, on top of the people who simply hate him for being a Democrat or hate his policies, personality, job performance, whatever. So he is operating within narrower margins, with less benefit of the doubt, than Clinton or any other President. Any serious mistake and he plummets. He has not actually MADE any big mistakes until the ACA rollout--the whole Benghazi thing was just a terror attack, it didn't hurt him except to the people who already hated him. That IRS thing hasn't been tied to him, and isn't even all that politically unfair. Planned intervention in Syria and the Snowden stuff hurt him a little, but that couldn't really be helped. He is a good man, but not perfect, and unfortunately, he pretty much has to be perfect and will be judged more harshly.