Yeah, but...FDR spent the first term stopping the bleeding and it was only after a landslide re-election that much of what we call the New Deal to form. It took 10 years for Obamacare to become bedrock such that even conservative voters now say keep your hands off my healthcare (and social security). The left has demonstrated an imbecillic inability to strategize, to get half a loaf and come back for more when conoditions are more favorable. And to celebrate the victory. The left, of which I think I am a part, only knows how to stand around and whine because they can't have everything on their Christmas list. The right understands this typical response and plays it.