Beg to differ, DougR. It will be a bit of a referendum on his first term. But Republicans have been very busy purging voter rolls, enacting new (and not-so-new) regulations to disenfranchise voters who would likely vote the "other party" and devising and implementing ways to hack voting machines.

The votes that actually happen and are not hacked will be the referendum. And poll after relatively reliable poll shows that the American public does not like what the Republicans are doing. But that is not the whole story. Bush was installed, not elected. And it will happen again.

Saul