I heard a interesting guy on the radio who was speculating that Bush has been keeping his thumb on the scales of some of the economic reports for the past couple months in order to make them look better to help Republicans with the election.
It reads like this guy is a whack job but he laid out a decent case for his claim and it was reasonably convincing.
So, if true, and the Democrats cleaned house obviously last night, he was speculating that the next two months of data would be much worse than expected due to removal of the thumb.