Charlie Cook, the election handicapper, has announced that barring a major alteration in the landscape, Democrats will capture the House in November. Okay. But it’s worth recalling that around the same time in 2004, Cook wrote of Bush’s chances (sorry, can’t link): “This race has settled into a place that is not at all good for an incumbent, is remarkably stable, and one that is terrifying many Republican lawmakers, operatives and activists.”