Obama has the perfect opportunity to go HARD POPULIST and make everyone fall in love with him again. Here’s what we have:

1. Optically ridiculous behavior by the banking industry (lavish bonuses, etc, all on the government dime).

2. Health insurance companies kicking people out to die in the street.

3. Supreme court decision that will effectively eliminate what tiny shred of an effect individual donations had on politics by drowning that in a sea of un-trackable corporate donation.

4. Massive corporate resistance to even pretty basic pollution controls.

Grab a few of those issues  and get on the people’s side. To his credit, Obama is starting to shift more populist, but he needs to really pack it up in a whole movement. America For The People or something. Wrap a slogan around it. Give it some bullet points (those four above, or some subset would work). Let Americans know what is at stake for them personally, then dance on Newt Gingrich’s political grave.