Are the Democrats Disappointed in Obama for His Non-political Appearances?

Washingtonians are wondering whether President Obama is doing the Democratic party any good on their campaign trail before the midterm elections regarding his non-political public appearances, including appearing on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show."

The House is expected to lose up to 60 Democratic seats to Republicans, according to Fox News and the latest polls.

"I'm president and not king," Obama said Wednesday night in a meeting with bloggers. "And so I've got to get a majority in the House and I've got to get 60 votes in the Senate to move any legislative initiative forward."

During the President's appearance on "The Daily Show," Stewart described the president's agenda as "timid" regarding the healthcare bill.

To which Obama said he had "a profound disagreement with you and I don't want to lump you in with a lot of other pundits but, but this notion that health care was 'timid,' you've got 30 million people who are gonna get health insurance as a consequence of this."

However, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, says, "This overall notion of huge disappointment among Democratic voters, it is is not matched in any of the empirical data that you guys produced and that we see."