Posted on 10/10/2014 12:56:26 PM PDT by george76
The battle for the House has turned into trench warfare, with Republicans trying to scrape out enough wins to give them a historic majority and Democrats doing everything they can to minimize GOP gains.
If the election were held today, strategists from both sides say, Republicans would expand their current majority by between six and eight seats
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Republicans head into the final weeks of the campaign almost exclusively on offense. Of the 31 or so races seriously in contention, 22 — over 70 percent — are in districts held by Democrats. Twenty of the 31 districts were won by President Barack Obama in 2012.
GOP prospects are on the upswing in a handful of contests. Strategists from both parties say that four Democratic incumbents — New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea Porter, Illinois Rep. Bill Enyart, West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall and Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick — are under increasingly grave threat.
Additionally, Democrats have all but conceded they will lose the upstate New York seat from which Rep. Bill Owens is retiring. This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it will be canceling planned TV advertising in the district.
Fading stars
Many of this year’s most hyped candidates may not be coming to Congress after all.
Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff, the former state House speaker-turned-2010 U.S. Senate candidate, was once regarded as his party’s biggest recruiting coup. Now he’s widely seen as the underdog in his quest for a suburban Denver-based seat.
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http://www.politico.com/2014-election/predictions/house/
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I have been watching too much HGTV. I thought this was about another reason to go to Home Depot.
Not in McSally’s district (AZ) but backing her nonetheless.
I’m in her district and I’d love to be able to tell Ron Barber Hasta la Vista.
Thanks george76.
Of course, the best part of retaking both houses will be the following two years of online stooges and DIABNs bleating their buzzwords on behalf of their Demagogic Party overlords.
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