JAMES TARANTO: If He’s Lost Margaret Carlson, He’s Lost Middle America: Obama’s problem goes far deeper than his insolent style. “Carlson, a fixture at Time magazine before jumping to the Bloomberg news service, personifies liberal Beltway conventionality, and she appears to have turned decisively against President Obama. To be precise, she now thinks he’s kind of a jerk–that’s our paraphrase; as you’ll see, she puts it considerably more gently–which means that her view of Obama has caught up to where conservatives were two years ago and Middle American moderate independents this time in 2009.”