2014 will tell the tale. We do know the Baraqqis have a huge effort underway to re-take the House.
Converting the (successful) Obama campaign apparatus to a permanent progressive onslaught.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Newt may be behind the new and successful strategies, such as putting off the debt ceiling, not caving on sequestration and the continuing resolution till September.
That's a tall order. Obama's approval rating in the latest Gallup poll is down to 46 %.
The Politics of Sequestration: More Nuanced Than You Think
But the bottom line is that no president with a sub-50 approval rating has ever avoided losing at least 15 seats in the House in a midterm election; indeed you have to get to the high 50s before you start to see single (digit?) seat losses occur with regularity...