Unless the president can come down hard on the border and deal with gas prices it will be a bad November I suspect. The public wants action not talk at this point in time.
An immediate and visible method of being seen "to do smoething" whould be to repeal the federal gas tax temporarily..
What's was Bush's poll ratings in the two weeks prior to each Presidential election in November 2000 and 2004?
Why do people think Americans are stupid enough to be influenced by polls and not facts?