Across  the US of A a large number of Democrats have been voicing their  discontent and disappointment in the presidency of Barack Obama. Having  turned out in droves in 2008 in previously unseen numbers, many of those  voters are now rethinking their position.

Question is: Is the President and Team Obama listening?

This  past weekend Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker, followed by other  influential Democratic leaders and politicians, voiced angst with the  way Team Obama has conducted the re-election campaign in a negative  manner. The voices were heard and faces seen on the airwaves and in  newsprint.

Team Obama shrugged it off.

Booker has been sent to the woodshed re-appearing with that sheepish look.

Yet in the heartland, voters have shown the same type of discontent in state after state at the ballot box.

Again: Is the President and Team Obama listening?

So  far it appears that Team Obama and the President are brushing off those  protest votes as if they were annoying flies at a picnic.

Yet the facts are these:

43% protest vote in Oklahoma

42% protest vote in West Virginia

12% protest vote in Louisiana

41% protest vote in Arkansas

40% protest vote in Kentucky

40% protest vote in Tennessee

The  reaction from Team Obama is that the President is not going to win  these states in any way, so those protest votes do not matter.

Yet  in many other primaries that have been held there was no option for a  protest vote. Polls are showing that the enthusiasm of 2008 among  Democrats and independents is not there.

The  President, in what all analysts, consultants and political junkies  agree and backs up poll after poll, is in for the fight of his life to  hold the keys to the White House after November.

Will  these discontented Democrats and independents who have been showing  their displeasure during the primary season turn out on November 6 or  will they sit at home?

Can  presumptive Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney sway moderate  Democrats and independents to get up out of their recliners and off  their sofas to pull the lever for him instead?

From the Cornfield, Mr. President, this is your Democratic voters.

We have a problem.

Will  the President and Team Obama pay attention or will they continue to  ignore a hefty number of protest voters who are becoming even more  unhappy?

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