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People here need to chill out. We won some recent house elections in VA and OH and lost others. It was just a couple years ago that the Democratic Party was ‘dead’. Now, it is the GOP. We have cycles out all of our recent leadership with the departure of Delay and Hastert. A new group will rise soon.

Neither party is going to die, there is not going to be one party. We may or may not lose seats in Nov - I would predict a slight loss in both houses this round. Thing is, most districts are strongly Dem or Rep and we lost a whole bunch of the swing districts in ‘06 that we had held for a decade or more. We have good candidates running in a number of districts, including some honorable Iraq veterans. We’ll win some of those back and probably lose some others.

The Presidential race will dominate this cycle and what happens in the House will reflect that. If Obama wins the primary, some sectors of Dem voters will not be out in force for the Dems this time.

It is too early to tell anything. 2006 was a reflection of the publics changing opinion of Bush. He is not on the ballot this time, so the race will about different issues than 2006.

"People here need to chill out. We won some recent house elections in VA and OH and lost others."

Problem. Those were already our seats. What's troublesome is that we haven't won back a single House or Senate seat from the rodents since before 2006, and they've already picked up 2 more of our House seats (neither of which had gone Democrat since 1974 and 1972, respectively, one of which was the seat of the former Speaker) and perhaps a 3rd may fall by next week.

It is too early to tell anything. 2006 was a reflection of the publics changing opinion of Bush. He is not on the ballot this time, so the race will about different issues than 2006.

If there is a major terrorist attack on US soil, that will get McCain elected.

Otherwise, the voters will vote based on the cost of gasoline and groceries*, and that will put the Dem nominee in the White House.

[And the cry that the Dems have the House won't fly. They have only had it 2 years, after 12 years under the GOP.]

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* And the voters won't accept that inflation is running at 2.5%. They see inflation based on the price increase this month over the same items last month. That, for the consumer, is the real amount of inflation. They vote based on their pocketbooks.