High hopes

One of the problems the current activists running the Democrats is their cocooning. They think they're winning because "everybody" says so. That's why so many of them still think Bush wasn't elected. They don't know anybody who voted for him.

There is another view of the trends.

I wouldn't know who will win two months from now, but with so many close elections recently, I think it would be pretty silly to tell your workers that you're as good as back in the majority.