My guess is that the snap polls taken were not good for the dems. Rangel has promised to quit the congress if they don't take over the congress in November. He's worried.
As long as oil prices stay reasonable and the Repubs in Congress don't go along with any pro-illegal alien bills, I think we will make it.
If any terrorist attacks occur, or even threats of them do, it will make us look better.
If the Muslims really wanted to help themselves, they would have cooled it all over the world until 2008. That would have helped the Dems, and a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress is an Islamist's dream come true.
A Republican Congress, especially a conservative one, and a conservative Republican President is their worst nightmare.