In 2010, former President Bill Clinton begged New York community college students to stick with Barack Obama for another two years before measuring the success of his policies.
"If it doesn't work, you have another election in just two years. You can vote us all out then," he said in the months leading up to the 2010 Republican sweep.
Republican President Mitt Romney has campaigned on just that issue, claiming that Obama has slowed the economic recovery and led to higher unemployment, which ticked up to 8.2 percent in May. Things are even worse for recent graduates: one in two new college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed.
Clinton has found himself in hot water as an Obama campaign surrogate over the years. He lauded Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s private sector experience as "sterling" and endorsed the extension of the Bush tax cuts, despite the president’s opposition. In 2008, he called GOP nominee John McCain a "great man" and was accused of harboring resentment against Obama, who defeated his wife Hillary in a contentious Democratic primary.
