Salena Zito has a very telling column in the Pittsburgh Tribine-Review. It's worth reading.
Americans voted for change in 2008 in record numbers. Voters of every age, color, shape and size, in red states and blue ones, registered as Republicans, Democrats or independents, then voted for something different. They bought into the dream that Obama was not elite; he was for the middle class and would champion reform.
What they got was no different from the guy they voted against in 2004: John Kerry.