Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.