Democrats must be feeling like the Chilean miners except that, after being buried alive for months, there is no end in sight.

Now Obama supporters are selling raffles for a chance to meet the President backstage in Las Vegas while industry lobbyists grovel to get back into the good graces of the GOP for having cooperated on health care last year.

How bad can it get? Even worse, it seems, as the majority party goes into full triage mode to save Democratic seats once considered safe.

The coming electoral tsunami is being powered not only by Tea Party rage but a concurrent tide of despair from the other direction as, in a new poll, more than four out of ten former Obama backers say they “are either less supportive or say they no longer support him at all,” citing his failure to turn the economy around.

“The excitement they once felt is gone,” one of the disappointed explains, “and they are left wondering if they were sold a bag of goods.”

All this sounds like the griping of patrons who bought a ticket to a highly touted movie and lost interest when the popcorn ran out.

From the perspective of one who has seen 13 presidents in adult life through an actual Depression, four bitter wars and a Cuban Missile Crisis, such consumer dissatisfaction is surreal enough to raise second thoughts about the upbringing of the Baby Boomers, cushioned from the pain and disappointment of previous generations.

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