As Quinn said this morning, the MSM will soon be resurrecting the favorable - unfavorable poll ratings for Speaker of the House, like they did when Newt was Speaker.
That is, unless the Speaker Boehner numbers show positive...
To me, the real ju jitsu is in having Boehner NOT take the speakership after the GOP regains the majority.
I think one of the smoothest moves would be for him to announce that he was not going to assume the speakership and allow Eric Cantor or Paul Ryan or someone who can emerge with positive media image and present a positive message effectively and coherently to take the gavel. I don’t think Bohener can do that. It it would be a rather large act on his part to waive the Speakership - but you can’t say he deserves it in the way Newt did after he engineered the 1994 results. Boehner is essentially an innocent bystander beneficiary of the popular revulsion to Obama.