In the wake of losses in gubernatorial elections in NJ and VA, pundits on the right AND left are citing "lack of progress" on the part of the Obama administration on the various problems it faces.  The right opportunistically says,"Where are the jobs, what about Afghanistan?", the left,"What about healthcare reform, GITMO?"

The common denominator for lack of progress for these problems is the administration's naivete regarding the public's inability to digest anything but the simplest of messages.  I'm afraid it will take many years of strenuous effort to reverse our collectively shrinking attention span.
Solutions to complicated problems are, duh, complicated.  Objections to solutions have the luxury of the ability to be A) sound bite length and B) untethered from the truth.
None of this should have been news to Obama or his advisors.
Show me a citizen with a good grasp of the issues and I will show you one profoundly frustrated soul.

If we on the left can't condense our policy proposals down to bumper sticker size OR get people to become politically engaged on a large scale(yeah, right) then we will continue to fall victim to those who scream "death panel!" or "socialism!".