They'll try to use it in that manner. It won't have much effect. It's a port management deal that went bad. It's not going to stick in the public's mind for more than a week.
The Democrats will start bleating about the horrors of wire taps on Al Qaeda and cold pasta at Guantanamo and totally erase any paltry gain this issue might have given them.
If you think that's naive, show me all the articles about the failed port deal that get printed in July.
I will be happy to. We know, now, after two weeks of hysteria this was a business deal gone upside down. The media will continue to print that the Senate and Congress "saved" us from having dirty Ay-rabs running our national security...led by Schumer and Clinton.
This will end up as a 2006 election issue.