lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but here s the rub. they don t actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush and i think, by extension, republicans for the current state of the economy. so i don t think it s the while it looks like a great number and republicans ought to be jumping in and saying, oh, wow, the president is really vulnerable. when you look inside the numbers, he is less vulnerable than that would imply. let s look at the republicans who said no. jeb bush, donald trump, mike huckabee. but let s focus on