Gibbs: Obama doesn't expect 2008 level of enthusiasm in 2012

The Hill reports:

President Obama's senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on Sunday denied that voters are disappointed in Obama, but acknowledged that the enthusiasm of supporters in 2008 would be hard to copy this year.

"I don't think that there is voter disappointment," Gibbs said on CNN's "State of the Union." "The voters understand that we have been through a traumatic economic experience in the country, unlike anything that we have ever seen."

Gibbs said that no one in the campaign expects the level of enthusiasm Obama generated in the historic 2008 election.

Which means a NYT-CBS style poll should be taken with a pound of salt.