Jonathan Chait, assessing the President’s challenge in the light of weak economic numbers, in “Springtime for Romney “:

Obama’s fallback is to go back to emphasizing the fact that he has a plan that Republicans refuse to enact. In his speech today, Obama is reemphasizing the proposals that he introduced last fall.

This opens Obama up to the charge by Mitt Romney that he simply hasn’t gotten his plan passed, so it’s time to vote in somebody else. This counterattack will probably work well: Voters, and especially swing voters, have very little understanding of how divided power works, and they tend to simply attribute all results to the president.

Leo Strauss explaining the classical political-philosophical problem with “democracy”:

…[D]emocracy, or rule of the majority, is government by the uneducated. And no one in his right senses would wish to live under such a government.