Fifty percent of Americans say Barack Obama doesn’t deserve a second term, while just forty-six percent say he does. That according to a Gallup poll released today.

Among those who oppose a second term for Obama are 12% of Democrats(!) and 54% of Independents. Of course, the overwhelming majority of Republicans oppose another four years for The One.

The statistic most troubling for Democrats at this point should be the one involving Independents. Obama enjoys a much higher approval rating than his Democratic counterparts in Congress, yet Independents don’t even like Obama.

Gallup says the numbers are not always predicative of how the president’s second campaign will turn out, especially this early on. Quite true. But as the polling group notes:

Americans became somewhat less likely to say Clinton was deserving of re-election over the course of 1994. Gallup’s last measurement before the 1994 midterm elections, in October, showed 38% of Americans (and the same percentage of registered voters) saying Clinton deserved re-election, with the majority of 57% saying he did not.

1994, of course, was the year of the Republican Revolution. Democrats suffered huge losses in Congress and, while Clinton would be re-elected two years later as a much more moderate president, Congressional Democrats wouldn’t recoup their losses for 12 years.

So. Who wants to be the first moderate Democrat to have Obama campaign on your behalf? Anyone? Anyone?