Ah, well, there's a reason for that. It's because they are a bunch of nutjobs who were prepared to let the country default to score a political point back at the debt limit crisis.
Does congress also get elected at this election? I'd say that the make up of it would probably be pretty important depending on who wins the presidency.
The US house of representatives stands for elections every 2 years. The democrats have had some really great polls in the past two weeks but I'm going to restrain my optimism until the trend lasts a little longer.
The US Senate is divided into three different "classes" of 33 or 34 senators each. Every two years there is an election for one of the classes, meaning every senator stands for election every 6 years. The democrats had a good year back in 2006 so they are likely to lose seats just because they have so many vulnerable incumbents up for re-election this year. But it currently seems that democrats are favorites to retain the majority and probably won't lose more then a few seats. But it's both conceivable that they could lose the majority or gain seats given elections can be unpredictable.
I'd say that there is about a 80% chance that each party controls at least one of the three veto points, House, Senate and White House. I'd say there's about a 10% chance of either party having control of all three. But even then the minority party will be able to fillibuster legislation in the Senate because nobody is getting a filibuster proof majority (60% of the Senate) this year and you can take that to the bnak.