Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi penned a letter to her colleagues today, asking for their vote to continue in leadership and insisting two-thirds of them already support her.

If that’s true, then why was the vote delayed?

“It is with both humility and confidence that I write to request your support for House Democratic Leader,” Pelosi wrote, according to the letter posted on her website.

“As of this writing, I am pleased to report the support of more than two-thirds of the Caucus.”

But less than 24 hours ago, House Democrats decided to delay the leadership vote for 15 days.

“This is a big development,” CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported from outside the meeting room, “the fact that Nancy Pelosi is not going to be elected the leader this week and she could have competition in the next 15 days.”

According to Zeleny, many Democrats believe it may be time “for somebody from a different part of the country, not from California, not from New York.”

He said so far, no one has come forward with the “strength of Pelosi, so right now she seems secure.”

Rep. G. K. Butterfield admitted to reporters that Democrats “got a shallacking” in Tuesday’s election and they’re going through a grief process.

“It’s just like death. There’s different stages of grief you go through and after a defeat such as this, there are different stages you have to go through. We have to interpret the results,” Butterfield said.

In her letter to colleagues today, Pelosi basked in the House Dems’ glory days from 10 years ago.

“To be a strong voice for hard-working families and to uphold the values we cherish as Americans, House Democrats must be unified, strategic and unwavering. These qualities took us to victory in 2006 and I believe they will do so again,” she wrote.