Chuck Todd on new polling: Obama on the precipice of doing 'Carter-like' damage to Democrat brand

We all know Obama's policies have been an inarguable disaster. Recent polling shows that his approval rating has tanked on virtually every issue, and the number of people who support his decisions currently sits at an all-time low. So far, though, you could make a pretty strong argument that his shortcomings have - in the political sense - only caused self-inflicted wounds.

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His party has managed to escape the blame associated with his failures. According to NBC new Meet the Press host, Chuck Todd, that's changing. On today’s edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Todd argued that the President's train wreck is about to harm the Democrats' brand as well. Obama he says, is about to inflict "Carter-like damage" upon his own party - at least where foreign policy is concerned.

“It’s not just him. It’s actually impacting the entire party. We did some issue testing between, you know, who handles which issues. Democrats, Republicans. We took out Obama. Republicans lead by 38 points on the issue of ensuring a strong defense. He’s on the precipice of doing Jimmy Carter-like damage to the Democratic brand on foreign policy.”

The trouble for Dems is that, at the moment, foreign policy is front-and-center. Painfully flawed (or nonexistent) policies for dealing with immigration and ISIS have placed international issues at the top of U.S. citizens' concerns. ...And Obama polls on the wrong side of it all. Furthermore, Obama has painted himself into a corner where reversal on either issue is all but impossible. Just look at the uproar over a delay - just a delay - in his plans to illegally grant amnesty via executive order. His base won't tolerate a course correction, and the rest of the country despises his current, flawed, "strategy." If Todd is right, and Obama stands on a precipice, he has little choice but to go over it. The Dems have enabled this chaos, so they deserve what they get ...but God help the country they're dragging down with them.