Ouch.
Via Weekly Standard:
With Barack Obama’s job approval well below water these days, perhaps it’s no surprise that Democratic candidates for Congress this year aren’t jumping at the chance to have the president come campaign for them. Dave Weigel at Slate points out how remarkable it was last week when Democratic senator Mark Udall of Colorado declined to appear with Obama, despite the fact that the president won Colorado twice. “Members of the White House political team will grit their teeth and ask low-level campaign staffers if, you know, it would be OK for the commander-in-chief to show up,” Weigel writes. “They will be told to call back in a few days. Often, they will be told, ‘No thanks, but send money.'”
Now comes the news that even in Northern Virginia, the liberal region outside of Washington that’s transformed the Old Dominion into a blue state, Democrats are shying away from Obama. The president appeared in McLean in Fairfax County (60 percent support for Obama in 2008 and 2012) on Tuesday to call for action on extending the federal Highway Trust Fund, but the Democrat running for an open House seat that includes McLean was nowhere to be seen. John Foust is a member of the Fairfax County board of supervisors and lives in McLean, but the Democrat and House hopeful was “noticeably absent” from the Obama transportation event.