An upbeat beginning to the school year in today’s Washington Post: The new ABC/Post poll has Obama’s overall approval at 43 percent, with 53 percent disapproving. If these numbers hold, it’s very unlikely Obama will be reelected.

But there’s more: “Young voters broke overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008, but just 47 percent of those under age 30 now approve of the way he is doing his job; just as many disapprove.” I for one always had faith that our young people could learn as they grew up, and so they are. Obama won the 18-29 vote by 2 to 1; the move away from Obama among the young is more dramatic than among the population as a whole.