Word is his internal polls are dismal: One source described them as “heinous.” Florida is fully in play, as are Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, even little states like New Hampshire and Nevada. And Pennsylvania: The president even went to his veep’s hometown, Scranton, to shore up support among white working-class voters.

◼ Obama’s tin ear extends to sensibility - Joseph Curl/Washington Times

But the Obamas, they like their vacations: Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, Spain, Vail - wherever, whenever. Whipped by work? How about 11 days chilling on the Vine, kicking back on a 30-acre estate worth $24 million? Still exhausted? Just jump over to Oahu to a multimillion-dollar pad for some R&R.

The expansive vacay comes just as Mr. O is getting desperate.... How desperate is the incumbent getting? His New York fundraiser trip last week (at rush hour, just when the Rockefeller Center tree was being lit - tin ear?) showed a completely different candidate. “I’ve got to win in 2012,” he said, and, “In order to finish the job, I’m going to have to have a second term.”