Thanks for the reassurance. You are right, politics is local....at least for the House and Senate.
Let's look at this logically, with the cold eye of reason....
No matter what some might think, FR does NOT a represent the views/thoughts of the American populace at large.
Americans, by and large, have a VERY short attention span.
The port thing WILL calm down way before summer hits and besides, the DNC talking points are back to Katrina and I've no doubt, they'll be back to PLAMEGATE and all of the rest of that stuff in very short order.
And, as I said and you repeated, CONGRESSCRITTER ELECTIONS is a LOCAL thing!