Right wingnuts - Drudge, Gingrich and others - are saying the Democrats want Republican House leader Hastert to resign so as to enhance Democratic House candidates in the November election. You know, this liberal (I'm not a Democrat) thinks the best way Hastert can help Democratic candidates is to not resign - but to tough it out all through October and continue to keep this issue hot. He has shown such poor judgment and has contradicted himself nicely with just five days of this scandal that I think 30 days could guarantee a huge Democratic win in November. What I think will happen is Hastert will continue to apply band-aids to this scandal and be forced by Republicans to resign in a week or two as the issue gets worse. We shall see.