It appears that US Republican Party strategists are worried that the elections will be a bloodbath for Republicans in Congress. The Senate Map at the electoral-vote has the Democrats likely to end up with 58 seats to the Republicans 42. Brutal.
I suspect it will be like the recent elections in Australia where it was a landslide against the Howard Government. A result so encompassing that the Prime Minister even lost his seat; a rude ejection from national politics.
I am pretty confident that the Presidential and Congressional elections will be a landslide to the Democrats. In my opinion, people know in their gut (emotionally) when things aren't right and vote accordingly. Bad governance has consequences. While it may not be immediately obvious and the voters are far more forgiving than they should be, they do end up acting correctly.
The 2006 Congressional elections were a repudiation of the Bush Administration's and Hastert's Republican caucus' bad governance. I think the upcoming elections will be the same.
Bush's legacy will be Democratic control of the executive and legislative; including both houses of Congress with comfortable majorities.
