Cheer Up, GOP: Democrats Aren't Happy, Either

Republicans are grumpy these days because they don't much like their candidates, writes Jonah Goldberg at the National Review. But they shouldn't get too depressed because Democrats aren't all that jazzed about President Obama, he adds. Generally speaking, it's not that they don't like him anymore, it's that they don't "love him" as much as they did in 2008. If that enthusiasm gap translates into low turnout, especially among young voters and black voters, he could be in serious trouble.

"Things are ugly for Republicans right now," he writes. "But that might just be because things are ugly all over. And when it comes to enthusiasm, my hunch is that more people will be excited to vote against Obama than to vote for him." (More President Obama stories.)