From The New York Times:
Few predict a Republican upset: registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by three to one in the Ninth Congressional District. But it is not uniformly liberal — many Orthodox Jews live there, for example — and even those closest to Mr. Weprin grudgingly describe the contest as uncomfortably competitive.
On paper, Mr. Weprin seems like a sturdy candidate; he is the former chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee and the son of an Assembly speaker. His message seems tailor-made for the district: he promises to protect Medicare and raise taxes only on the super-rich.
But the election, waged with little news media attention, offers scant time to remind voters of his biography. And after a long summer of stock market gyrations and battles over the federal debt, voters seem determined to register their frustrations with Washington.
“The issue defining this race,” said Robert Zimmerman, a member of the Democratic National Committee from New York, “is the confidence that the electorate has in this district about the national Democratic agenda.”
Mr. Turner, a retired cable television executive running as a business-minded opponent of deficit spending, acknowledges that uneasiness over Mr. Obama could prove decisive. Asked about his strength in the poll, he smiled mischievously.
“Suddenly,” Mr. Turner said of voters, “they are faced with the most brilliant, dynamic, charismatic, Scott Brownesque candidate,” referring to the Massachusetts senator. Or, he added, people are so angry with the president “that they can put up some tired old guy with no political experience and he could actually win.”
“You can pick your poison,” he said. “I suspect that behind it is a great deal of discontent in the district.”
That suspicion was confirmed by interviews with voters like Theodore Feimer, 66, a retired teacher who lives in the Breezy Point section of Queens. He said he was upset with the president and Democrats over the rising national debt. “I have never spent more money than I made,” he said. “The president is way off base in his spending.”
Mr. Feimer, an independent, views Mr. Weprin as an extension of Mr. Obama, and wants to restore balance to Congress. “We live in a tremendously blue city in a blue state,” he said. “Weprin to me is part of the party regime.”
Mr. Weprin, 55, said the unhappiness was understandable. “People are frustrated, they are worried,” he said. “The top guy is the easy guy to take it out on.”
Read the whole thing here. If Democrats are having to worry about a district where they outnumber the GOP 3-1, then maybe Bummer Summer is really taking a toll. The Democrats probably have too many institutional advantages in the district to actually lose, but, still…

Comment count on this article reflects comments made on Breitbart.com and Facebook. Visit Breitbart's Facebook Page.