With a little more than 10 weeks left to go, the rhetoric has accelerated and both sides are trying to find an issue that changes the dynamics of Election Day 2010.

The Democrats are desperate to turn the debate away from a sagging economy and chronic unemployment. The Republicans are trying desperately to find one more wedge issue that can knock out a couple more Democrats and assure the GOP of a House majority, or add another Senate seat or two to the five or six it thinks it will win.

And whatever the president tries to do, his sinking poll numbers are hurting his party, and Democrats are avoiding him in droves. "We have been able to deliver the most progressive legislative agenda -- one that helps working families -- not just in one generation, maybe two, maybe three," President Obama said Monday night at a Hollywood fundraiser.

Unfortunately for Obama and his Democratic allies, the country doesn't quite agree with him or his Hollywood supporters. On the issue of the economy, according to a Gallup Poll, the president gets a 38 percent approval rating and a 59 percent disapproval.

Of the 13 issues tested by Gallup, the president gets an approval rating of more than 50 percent on just one: his performance on race relations. Important, but not the issue foremost in voters' minds as Election Day nears.

The worst numbers for him are on his handling of the economy, the war in Afghanistan, the federal budget deficit and immigration. The problem for Democrats is that none of those important issues is fixable in the remaining weeks before the election.

In desperation, Obama tried to throw the old "Republicans are going to take away your Social Security" hand grenade that has been used unsuccessfully by Democrats since the days of former Rep. Tony Coelho and the late Speaker Tip O'Neill in the 1980s.

In his radio address Saturday, the president said that some Republican leaders in Congress are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall," and he went on to say this was "an ill-conceived idea that would add trillions of dollars to our budget deficit while tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock market."

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