You are missing the point. We have lost both houses of Congress. It will not be easy to get them back. From 1933 to 1995, a 62 year period, the Dems controlled the House for 58 of those years and the Senate for 54. We are not going to get back the House in 2008. The power of incumbency is real. It took the Dems 12 years to get back the House.
"Already the wails of the immigration restrictionists are rising, insisting Republicans lost because they weren't tough on keeping illegal border-crossers out. Not true. The test was in Arizona, where two of the noisiest border hawks, Representatives J.D. Hayworth and Randy Graf, lost House seats. Graf lost in a seat along the Mexican border, where illegal immigrants flock."
Hayworth lost because of Iraq, like every other Republican. I'm so tired of these Weekly Standard bums.
Keep in mind that the Democrats had overwhelming majorities in Congress for most of that time -- mainly because the party was much more conservative at the time, and because the population of the U.S. was heavily concentrated in Democratic strongholds such as the Northeast and Midwest.
The GOP majority in 1994 wasn't a huge one, and it hasn't varied much in size over the last 12 years. The Democratic majority in the House isn't a huge one, and their Senate majority is as slim as it could possibly be. I suspect there will be a lot of changes in dominance in both houses of Congress over the next couple of decades -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing.