‘What are you basing your Senate/House numbers on? Seems to me, getting the house back is not very difficult and getting the senate back would take a miracle. What are you seeing that I’m not?’
The narrow margin in the Senate to begin with, and the fact there are more vulnerable Dems in 08 than there were last fall for starters. When the biggest name on the Dem side running for the Senate is Al Franken...well draw your own conclusions (Franken has gained quite a bit of Hollywood cash, but he’s losing by double digits to Coleman in the polls).
In my view, Dingy Harry Reid’s stating ‘we’ve lost’ is also going to come into play. He’s reminding me more and more of tiny tommy daschle with each passing week - except dashle wasn’t quite this politically STUPID. He just thought his constituents back home were in fact dumber than dirt.
Have you looked at the number of Republican seats that are up in 2008?
I’m not a gloomer on 08. In fact, I think many things are headed decidedly in our favor. I still see a huge uphill battle for the Senate. With the house, after the sheer number of seats that were won by trickery in very red districts and the number of seats where the Dem ran to the right of the Rep and will now have to face the music for the leftist agenda of congress, I think we’ll see a lot of success.
The senate, on the other hand, is where we’ve got a big RINO infestation. Little progress is being made on getting rid of guys like Graham in the primary. Make no mistake, guys like that will lose to the Dem if we don’t get rid of them in the primaries.
We’ve got a lot of guys up for re-election and some of them are being really stupid about waffling on core principles. That’s not a recipe for a good outcome.
That isn’t to say that things can’t change and I haven’t written anything off, but I do have to say that I’m not quite as optimistic about the senate as you are.