I think I might have mentioned this

It seems pollsters of both parties have been reading here. This article in the NY Times catalogues the problems Republican stategists see with the debacle of the Medicare Presciption Drug scam. Compounded on top of the Social Security Privatization - er, harumph, um, personal thingamajigs - rollout and retreat, it appears that seniors will be re-thinking their rightward trend come November. And their power in mid-terms, where they show up in much higher numbers than voters in Presidential years, is huge.

Just a month ago, I ruminated on this very concept (scroll down to #4).

It's early yet, but seniors don't dig people messing with their medicine (which they can barely afford already) or their Social Security.

It really is poetic that a piece of legislation designed around winning the 2004 election (with the value added bonus of lining the pockets of Big Pharma) could end up sinking the Republicans in 2006. I can hear Denny Hastert now - "We never should have kept that 15 minute vote open for 6 hours. Why, oh, why did we threaten those wavering Republicans?"

Justice served.