Is this a blip, or a trend?
…it will almost certainly flip back and forth from last week’s Dem +3 and this week’s Rep +2. Nonetheless… you do have to wonder just how badly we are getting hurt by actually sticking to principles for a change.
I think a good indicator will be the special election in New York. If the White House throws everything it has at it, including ACORNs, and the Republicans win anyway, it will be the same kind of portent that we saw when the Democrats were losing special elections in 1993.