by Douglas Schoen Info

Douglas Schoen is a political strategist and author of the upcoming book Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System to be published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins on September 14. Schoen has worked on numerous campaigns, including those of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Evan Bayh, Tony Blair, and Ed Koch.

With the jobless rate at 9.1 percent, Obama’s approval ratings below 50 percent, 60 percent believing the U.S. is on the wrong track, and only one-third of voters approving the president’s handling of the economy, Obama could face a disaster in 2012 unless he devises a recovery plan, says Douglas E....