Wishful thinking on his part.

PHILADELPHIA — Things may be going poorly for President Barack Obama in June, but he offered what he saw as an apparent upside here tonight: Most people aren’t watching.

“The good news is, I think the American people agree with us,” Obama told diners at a fundraiser at the Franklin Institute here. “They’re not following . . . the ups and downs, the ins and outs of this campaign. But they do have a sense of what’s true. They have pretty good instincts about what works and they’re not persuaded that an economy built on the notion that everybody here is on their own is somehow going to result in a stronger, more prosperous America. So our job is to just make sure that we get that message out.”