The Hill reports that Democrats’ face several key stumbling blocks during the upcoming midterm electons:

Democrats feel they have grabbed political momentum, but the party still faces several dangers that could wipe them out in November.  Democratic strategists and independent political experts identify roughly five stumbling blocks that the party must overcome to avert big losses: history, jobs and the economy, an apathetic base, ethics and anti-Washington sentiment.   Almost every Democratic strategist acknowledges the party will lose seats in Congress this fall. The question is whether the loss will be moderate or severe, or even enough to give Republicans control of the House. “

While the Wall Street Journal reports that President Obama’s supporters suffer from an intensity deficit:

“This year’s election will be about health care, of course, and certainly about the economy. But the biggest question hovering over it is a more generic one: Can President Barack Obama rekindle the excitement among his voters that so propelled Democrats in 2008? Right now, Democrats suffer from an intensity deficit that stands as perhaps their single biggest barrier to continued control of Congress after November. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll measured that intensity gap at an eye-popping 21 points: 67% of Republicans said they were very interested in this fall’s elections, compared with 46% of Democrats.