To: airborne
but the rest I didn't automatically consider the open seats or special election as Republican like you did.
Well they are seats currently occupied by a GOP member of the House. That means the GOP has to defend them or capture other seats to gain seats. In addition the "special election seat" was last occupied by a member of the GOP. So again the GOP must win that one or the GOP caucus shrinks by one seat.
21 posted on
08/14/2009 10:26:50 PM PDT by
JLS
To: JLS
Just explaining how I came to my (inaccurate) numbers.
22 posted on
08/14/2009 10:30:58 PM PDT by
airborne
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