1. Obamacare. The federal takeover of health care will raise premiums, limit quality, and impose more government control onto what is already one of the most regulated industries in the country.

2. Benghazi. Americans at our consulate in the aforementioned city were left to die, though they could have been saved. This has been followed by an administration and media cover-up.

3. A weakening of our defense. Our lackadaisical approach to the war in Afghanistan, as well as the expansion of terrorist elements, have undermined the War on Terror. Furthermore, we are witnessing the rise of a nuclear Iran, an ascendant China, and a resurgent Russia. The president’s policies have not helped transition to this new, tumultuous global state.

4. Unemployment. Though unemployment rates have decreased, this can only be attributed to more having dropped out of the workforce. In total, 91.6 million are no longer working.

5. Spending and debt. Though Obama, as a candidate in 2008, argued that the act of incurring debt was, under his now-predecessor, unpatriotic, he has added nearly $7 trillion to the debt.

6. Ignorance of the Constitution. Though the Founding Fathers intended that we be governed by a Congress adhering to enumerated powers, and a president constricted in his authority by Article II, Mr. Obama has overstepped his boundaries and funded ever-more-disturbing abuses of freedom.

7. Fast and Furious, in which the government sold weapons to drug cartels, ostensibly to track them, resulting in at least one murder of an American, and some of the firearms have been found at the scenes of various crimes on Mexican and American territory. Thus far, more than half of the approximately 2,000 weapons sold are still at large.

8. IRS targeting, in which the nation’s tax-collecting service stalled tax-exemption applications on the basis of the political affiliations of those groups that were singled out for additional investigation.

9. Energy policy. The administration has failed to fully realize our offshore and inland fuel potential, nor has it permitted the Keystone XL pipeline to be constructed.

10. AP scandal. In yet another example of the administration’s overreach, it was revealed last year that the Justice Department was examining the phone records of Associated Press reporters for nebulous reasons, thus endangering the notion of confidential press sources.