This e-mail from Arizona gave me a glimmer of hope:

The fact that Obama has delayed his trip to the Pacific is actually good news. Every time the president has changed his travel plans at the last minute, he has lost the issue for which he changed his plans. Whether it was the Olympics . . . or the Coakley campaign, the president changed his travel plans, liberals thought that it meant he was on the cusp of victory, and then the president’s agenda went over the precipice.