Guess the 2010 landslide was just a...blip.

Panicked Democrats are releasing a barrage of negative television advertising, turning to the national party for a cash infusion and pleading with President Obamas’s network of supporters for help as they confront what seemed impossible two months ago: defeat in the heavily Democratic House district last represented by Anthony Weiner.       

Supporters of Mr. Weprin, many of them teachers, were gathered at Strawberry's Sports Grill in Douglaston, Queens, to make calls to fellow union members on behalf of the campaign.

Party leaders say the president’s flagging popularity and defections among Jewish voters have left them facing the embarrassing possibility that their candidate, Assemblyman David Weprin, could lose New York’s Ninth Congressional District to a little-known Republican businessman who has never held elected office.