Your "2 men of integrity" comment may be prophetic. The thing going on now may be more about defining the battlefield for the upcoming November elections than real or valid complaints.
Katrina is a non issue, in truth, but Democrats are trying to save their hides on it. Same with port security and other issues that are supposedly going against President Bush & Co.
Even the poll manipulations are suspect and timing questionable. In fact, we should be gearing up now for what's coming from the Democrats non-stop from now until the election is over.
You are absolutely correct. November---in political time---is years away. So much can happen. Bush and Company have kept quiet while the Dems have jumped on mini-issues, trying to score points. Wait until a REAL issue emerges. I would put my money on a WOT event. Only the EFFECTIVENESS of the WOT has lulled the USA into a VERY false sense of security. Hey people, there are some dangerous BAD GUYS out here. This will be a long war.
Simply challenge for the Pollsters. Reverse the respondents ratio Dem vrs Republicans, cut by 2/3rds the "independents" and evenly spit that 2/3s into "leans Dems" and "leans Repbs". Re-poll and republish the result. Like any statistical data, the assumptions and framework work you build into the collecting the data effects the outcome. The "News Media" polls jiggered the data to get the current results. I thought previous polling was bad but we have no entered the insane zone for pollsters. The rational "oh well more people tell they are Democrats now" is a self serving lie told to justify their slanting the data harder and harder left. The fact is political identify does NOT swing back and forth easily for most people. Like most self chosen ideficiations, people are slow to change once they "identify" their "Side". This claim that "people are flocking to the Democrats so we have to poll more Democrats" told by the Failed Media is pure Junk Science. No reputable Social Scientist would ever put their name to this kind of garbage methodology. The problem for us is all the Talking Heads define reality by poll numbers. They base everything on what they read in the polls. That is why you get such shock out of them Election Night. The data never matches the REAL results. This is an excellent example of how Garbage IN, Garbage OUT works.