Doug, the real key to becoming enormously unpopular at this time is simply this:

Get elected!!! Then wait 6 months to a year. You WILL become very unpopular. People's opinion of you will sink like a rock.

I'm not going to bother explaining to you why that is, because you probably wouldn't want to hear it. ;-D

But try it. Get elected. Then wait and see.....the shit will hit the fan, and you will be in it up to your ears and maybe right over your head. And you'll wonder just what hit you.