With President Obama now in full campaign mode, the question becomes: Can he win re-election despite some misgivings from the vast majority of the American people? A new Marist College-McClatchy poll delivers this bad news to the president: Sixty-four percent of Americans now think the country is moving in the wrong direction, while just 31 percent believe the USA is on the right track.

That is the highest “wrong direction” number since November of 2007, when the country was heading into a deep recession. In normal times, that kind of poll number would be catastrophic for a president about to enter the re-election season. But these are not normal times.