I think the record for house losses by a party in modern times was 70+ in the early 1900’s. Obama and the dems might have the dubious honor of setting a new record...
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For example, here where I live in WV-1 he has the incumbent, Mollohan, in a safe seat. That is not even close to the truth. He is an 28 year incumbent who is facing a Democrat primary challenge and we have six challangers on the Republican side. He has voted with Pelosi 98% of the time, against the wishes of his constituency. There is blood in the water here, and I'd like to make a personal side bet with Dr Sabato on the outcome of this one.
By the way, we have another Democrat in trouble in WV-3 (Rahall) whose race will be somewhat closer, but it's still very winnable. He hasn't been able to distance himself from Obama's "Cap & Trade" legislation which would devastate our local economy. Sabato doesn't even list this race on his chart.
If he's trying to gloss over these two races, how many Democrats are there who are in deep & serious trouble?????
Right now he shows 83 House Dems in competitive races and only 23 Republicans. He uses the standard categorization: Likely D, Leans D, Toss-Up, Leans R and Likely R. That yields this very nice House Summary Chart that right now shows a likely Republican pickup of 27 seats with the Dems holding 19 out of 20 of the Toss-Up seats. Get half of those and it's a pickup of 37 seats.
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