Measured against his party's surging strength in every region and at every level, he is dramatically underperforming.
Noting that Obama's high-flown "change" rhetoric is silly, Will says:
Swift and sweeping changes are almost always calamitous consequences of calamities — often of wars, sometimes of people determined to "remake the world."
Which leads to Will's conclusion:
Wise voters...hanker for candidates whose principal promise is that they will do their best to muddle through without breaking too much crockery.
