Democrats are counting on their base to save them on Nov. 2. But what if a significant slice of that base decides that President Obama’s future would be better served by a Congress led by Rep. John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell?

What if the president’s base is different from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s, and what if that base concludes that the American Left would be much, much better off with a president free of the compromisers and trimmers on the Hill, free to confront the entrenched interests that have made him dilute health care reform and which blocked cap-and-tax?