Polls: Its Getting Worse for Republicans

Its unclear how the North Korean nuclear crisis will impact the Fall elections. For now, polls show there is a good chance Republicans could lose the House, maybe the Senate:

President George W. Bush and Republicans are sinking under the weight of the Iraq war and the Capitol Hill sex scandal, according to a flurry of polls, endangering their control of Congress in the November 7 elections.

Bush's numbers are going back into the 30s again:

The latest polls give Democratic candidates a growing edge of between 13 and 23 percentage points over Republicans on the November ballot, with Bush's approval ratings dropping back into the 30s after a slight bump into the low 40s in September.

The greatest threat to Republicans in November is that the Foley scandal will keep angry conservatives at home:

Many religious conservatives disgusted over the unfolding Capitol Hill sex scandal could stay home from the polls on November 7 and hurt the Republican Party's chances of retaining control of Congress, analysts say.

And we can thank the Blogs, to a large part, forl the Foley matter becoming such a major news story:

ABCNews.com was the first major news outlet to report the story that Foley, a Republican, sent inappropriate e-mails to a Congressional page. But the news ballooned into a larger scandal when other pages who knew of more sexually explicit messages sent tips to the station's Web site; Foley promptly resigned when confronted with the material.

Meanwhile Americans continue to die in Iraq:

Three U.S. Marines were killed in action in Anbar province in western Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.

And lets not forget North Norea:

Capitals from Asia to America were making frantic checks on Wednesday after Japanese broadcaster NHK said North Korea may have conducted another nuclear test, but there was no immediate confirmation that it had.