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Economist Tom Lembong highlighted the second-term curse of President Jokowi's administration in a podcast with Novel Baswedan.

Yet. >> not at all. some of this we can just point to structural issues. the second-term curse. he's six years in. americans are kind of bored of him. he hates washington. but then he's also caused a lot of this mess himself with the healthcare.gov and the v.a. scandal. that's what americans are paying attention to. the number one story they are focusing on more than the world cup or anything. so he can't catch a break here at all. the white house is happy about the numbers but it's not enough to turn things around for them, i don't think. >> alex, do you think the level of frustration sent hi...

Success stories like kentucky. i have no doubt the administration will get the system working and that the program will ultimately prove popular. but the longer it takes, the more the president squanders the already meager public confidence that he can do anything right. >> you know, we were talking about this before. i was talking about the hot house of 24/7 news culture. you can go back to second terms. of course, a lot of people, a lot of obama supporters rolled their eyes going, oh, give me a break. there's no second term curse. go back. let's look at lbj. then you go to nixon. of course, ...

You see the left literally up in arms and all of the kind of ire directed at president bush, now back in play and aimed at president obama, i think you're going to start to see some slippage in terms of his overall approval ratings and talk about a second term curse, second term agenda in congress and danger, all of it in play right now. >> kimberly, you spent some time in democratic political circles. you know how this gets to them. do you think he risks really losing his base in a midterm election or something like that? they seem just as enraged now as they were before with george w. bush. ...

Independents. we know republicans don't like him. this one where you see the left literally up in arms and all of the kind of ire that was directed alt the patriot act and bush, it's now aimed at president obama. you talk about a second term curse. second term agenda in congress in danger, all of it in play right now. >> kimberly, you spent some time in the past in democratic political circles. you know how this gets at them. do you think that he risks, i mean, really losing his base in a mid term election or something like that? i mean, they seem just as enraged now as they were before with g...