From Washington Post:

I don’t get the sense many people are paying attention,” said Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), who has been hoping party activists would lead demands for a shake-up. “Corruption is still 90 percent an inside-the-Beltway” issue.
The lack of grass-roots enthusiasm for broad changes on Capitol Hill may work to the advantage of Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), several legislators said. By most estimates, he is leading the race to become the next House majority leader — despite his extensive connections to lobbyists, including some involved in the Abramoff scandal.
Blunt’s right-hand man, Rep. Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.), another member of Rep. Tom DeLay’s leadership team, is similarly favored to replace Blunt as majority whip, the third-ranking party leadership post.
The absence of a grass-roots rebellion has hindered the insurgent leadership campaigns of Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) and others who are calling for fundamental changes in the way House Republicans govern in Washington, lawmakers said. Shadegg is running a distant third behind Blunt and Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), a longtime GOP insider with close ties to lobbyists.
Even some political junkies are yawning at the race. “Ethanol subsidies are more interesting,” a reader of the Web log of the conservative National Review, which has endorsed Shadegg, wrote yesterday.