That’s right. The ubiquitous blue stickers with the round, red-white-and blue symbol are coming off the bumpers. Even in northern Virginia, which has large pockets of yellow dog Democrats, the stickers are disappearing.

Is this evidence of buyer’s remorse? If it is, someone should tell Pepsi, which changed its logo to look like the Obama symbol and plastered slogans on its ads that implied it was part of “hope” and “change.” They might want to do what Coca-Cola did after the bust of the “new Coke” and go back to their original logo.

As Obama sinks in the polls, the absence of triumphal stickers is becoming glaringly obvious. They used to be as ubiquitous as ants at a picnic. You still see Kerry 2004 and even Gore 2000 stickers on some cars, usually on a Volvo or on a Subaru, the unofficial car of women who wear comfortable shoes. But Obama? Who’s he? You mean the pitchman who’s constantly on television? Isn’t the election over?

America is taking Mr. Obama’s measure and reassessing rapidly. From initiating a gusher of spending, appointing a gaggle of radicals, glad-handing America’s enemies and targeting our own security personnel, the president has alienated one constituency after another. Pretty soon all he will have left will be the pansexual, Star Wars bar crowd and, of course, the unions, which spent $1 billion during the 2008 election cycle and want to jam “card check” down America’s throat to end the right to resist their goons.

Mr. Obama, who once flew high at 70 percent, still has an approval rating of 48 percent, which means a lot of people still expect a government handout. But people registering more negative views of the president are gaining. And, again, those stickers are becoming the oddity when just a while ago they were the rule.

Kimberly Strassel observes in “Obama’s Swing-State Blues” in the Wall Street Journal that the president’s plunge in popularity poses problems for his colleagues, such as Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds. Mr. Deeds, who has been trying to win the governor’s mansion by boasting of how many babies are going to be aborted on his watch, is not going to Washington anytime soon to pose for pictures at the White House. He’s lying low, hoping the Washington Post’s macaca-style crusade against Republican Bob McDonnell will work. The Post, which has ignored the stupendously incriminating baggage of some Obama appointees, is aghast that McDonnell wrote a thesis 20 years ago that argued for traditional values in public policy.

McDonnell has obeyed dumb Republican consultants and apologized a few times. But he’s still in the driver’s seat because he has a pro-family record, obviously respects women, and has correctly labeled his opponent as a tax-and-spend liberal.

In Strassel’s otherwise brilliant piece, she bemoans the loss of “independent women” who might have voted for McDonnell but for his grad student paper. She notes that he’s weathering it by emphasizing economic issues that put Deeds on the defensive. She’s right, up to a point. But she draws the wrong conclusion when she flatly states: “The moral for the GOP? Cultural controversy does not sell.” Continued...