[yongin]

I think we hit rock bottom in the House. If we recruit decent candidates for the House, we could have a net gain of 20. I don’t think we can capture control of the House. We dug a hole too deep to get out of in one election cycle.

[Impy]

It’s hard to imagine if you look at it race by race and try to find 40+ pickups.

But if we can actually get 48-50% of the total votes like in in 1994-2004, who knows.

While they were funded many of the last 2 classes of rats are hardly impressive figures, they road the waves into office. Maybe Barone is right.

[chimera]

Regardless, we need to try to recruit good candidates to take them on. I didn't think we could do it in ‘94 but we did. We could use that as a model, nationalize the local races like Gingrich and the ‘Pubs did back then. If Oboma’s policies are a failure by 2010, it could give us the opening we need. The “Bush's Fault” mantra will ring pretty hollow by then.