In the longer term, I see this plan as having 13 Dem seats, 16 GOP seats, and 3 swing seats, the current Bonilla, Paul and Sandlin seats. The current Dem seats held by Hall (16% more GOP than the state as a whole based on the comptroller's race in 1998 which was won by the GOP by 1%), Edwards (5% more GOP), and Stenholm (3% more GOP), will fall to the GOP when they aren't running. The swing seats are Paul (3% more Dem), Bonilla (7% more Dem), and Sandlin (5% more Dem).
Overall, this is a good plan for the GOP. There is no need to get greedy. As another posted noted, a lot of fairly marginal GOP seats have been firmed up and are no longer marginal, as well as the Paul and Bonilla seats by a percentage point or so.
There is no need to get greedy...Huh? So I guess the Jeffords switch didn't make much of a difference? I guess the Tennessee Titans are pretty smart, they didn't get greedy in the Superbowl or on Monday night.
Sometimes inches make all the difference in the world.
I agree. Well said.