Senior Andrew Clark, a Hatchet columnist, notes that President Obama’s popularity is falling even among college students, and for various reasons.

A little under two weeks from Election Day, several things seem to be becoming fairly obvious. The majority of the American people have decided that President Barack Obama and the Democrats’ expensive big-government policies are egregious. The economy is not recovering.

But let’s zero in on something that might carry a bit more salience for us on campus – what exactly happened to Obama’s young student supporters?

A new Associated Press-mtvU poll shows that only 44 percent of college students across the country approve of Obama’s job performance. In May of 2009, his support was at 60 percent. These numbers now put college students in line with the national mood about the president. And let’s be honest: At the campus town hall last week at GW, the audience members looked less than excited, or at least nothing compared to the energy seen around campus in 2008.