re: A good answer though, isn't it?
"Ya, well neener neener, we won in '04." Is not an argument I would offer, if positions were reversed.
Polls are a pretty good predictor of election results, I think. And they are on the mind of every pol in DC, when thinking about the next time they have to face the voters.
Don't know what other Dems think, and I will not try to answer for them.