How can Obama win voters without lowering the deficit?

And can he lower the deficit? I mean our budget looks like Bush part III, he's blocked by the GOP on making any actual reductions that he proposed, so how can Obama lower the deficit even if he works with and lets the GOP plan go through because that plan seems way to far down range. Like retirement ages and vouchers that might make a difference way down the road. HOw do we make the deficit go down now. I know unemployment extensions will save some money, but we're talking less than 100 billion a year so that seems tiny.