To all incumbent candidates: "Stand tall with the president"

The election this November is not about electing a president, but the anger that is fueling the races for Congress is directed mainly at the president. In my opinion, the Democrats have consistently made the mistake of distancing themselves from their own party's president (from Clinton in 1994 for example and the Republicans retook the Congress) instead of campaigning on a platform of supporting what their president has accomplished. It is, in my view, a rather cowardly posture: supporting the president when they're popular, but shunning them when they're not. Shunning is rarely kind or admirable, but especially not when the person being shunned has done well and much of the populace is too ignorant or misinformed (in the current climate because of unrestrained anger) to recognize it. President Obama and many of the Democratic senators have built a substantial resume of successful and beneficial legislation. It is up to the incumbent candidates now to tout those accomplishments, not to be afraid to mention them for fear of being aligned with an unpopular president.