Morris says Republicans could pick up 100 House Seats in 2010

FOX News | August 24, 2009

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

On the Hannity show, Dick Morris just said he thinks the Democrats will lose as many as 100 seats in 2010. Hannity was so shocked that he audibly gasped.

[SoCalPol]

Your third party loons only bring a democrat victory.

[AnnGora]

Morris will have a totally different prediction in his next appearance on Fox. I hope he’s right, but he is always touted as THE go-to expert and he ends up wrong everytime. Remember, he predicted Hillary and Condi Rice would be the 2008 candidates. He’s a toad and I don’t trust him one minute.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It's impossible with the way the districts have been gerrymandered the last 60 years, especially the last 25-30 years.

Gerrymandering involves creating as many districts as possible with a comfortable margin for your party, putting as many of the opposition into a smaller number of districts with an overwhelmingly large margin. In most years this guarantees a majority for the party doing the gerrymandering.

In a blowout election many of the districts with a comfortable Dem margin will be won by Republicans. That is how the GOP won the California legislature in 1994.

The really big point is that the legislatures elected in 2010 will be the ones creating the gerrymanders. A blowout election in 2010 will result in heavily Republican Congresses and legislatures for the next decade.

[Colvin]

There is a limit to what even Acorn can do. Coleman would have won if he had a solid 5% lead over a$$ clown, but when it gets to the down and dirty they generally will sew it up in court.
There was no way we were going to win last time, it was all going against us. McLaim gave me little reason to my trust in him. This time may well be different, we may have the wind to our backs, and all our sails full.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I played it back to be sure I didn’t hear incorrectly. By God, he did say 100 seats could be lost.

[taildragger]

No the gipper won't be back in from the other side, but the next closest thing will be wearing a skirt...

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Lt. Col Allen West is not in my district, but I’ll help any way I can.

[Alas Babylon!]

And Nancy Pelosi goes back to her closet office up in the attic of the Rayburn building.

Nice.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That would be the most amount of seats we’ve held since 1920.

[AmericanInTokyo]

If you are a Freeper, have no skeletons in the closet, are a fairly good speaker or can become good at it (practice/repetition makes perfect), have an inner core of finance types to help you $$$-wise, are in a purple, marginal congressional district which can go either way, and HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF DOING THIS, now is the time to consider setting up a committee and going for it.

I can envision at least 10 to 20 Free Republic members standing in Congressional races next year.

[fwdude]

It's possible NO Democrat will win in the next election, and after that kind of majority, certainly not in the foreseeable future!

Um... I like your attitude and cheerful outlook, but the ENTIRE house is re-elected every two years. There will always be absolutely brain-dead districts that would vote for Nero while Rome burns. mASSachusetts comes to mind.

But we can dream, can't we?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Another FReeper reminded me that the R got over 50 seats in 94.

Those were primarily Reagan republicans and coservatives in '94. Since then, the party politicos have forgotten their roots and headed left and have spent like driunken sailors and have increased the size of government! No disrespect to drunken sailors!

[OldDeckHand]

"The really big point is that the legislatures elected in 2010 will be the ones creating the gerrymanders. A blowout election in 2010 will result in heavily Republican Congresses and legislatures for the next decade. "

Keep in mind that it's not the US House or Representatives that defines congressional districts, it's the individual state legislative bodies.

Just because the Republicans have a good year next year, won't necessarily mean that the districts will change in any measurable or favorable way for the Republicans.

[Waco]

0’B care plus control plus licking illegals axx, mite do them in.

[muawiyah]

The “pubies” never had all the power. They never had a “super majority” and without that you have to thrash things out with the other side. That’s the problem the Democrats are facing right now ~ their Leftwingtards think they have the power and are pushing all kinds of nonsense ~ but they don’t have a supermajority, and they’re not going to get one.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He’s a toad and I don’t trust him one minute

You used the terms 'Dick Morris' and 'trust' in the same sentence?

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

[WHBates]

What makes you think he is on any side but his own? Actually, the fact that he isn't necessarily on any side makes some of what he says credible. I don't like him either BTW.

[SUSSA]

I think he’s wrong by 50. My guess is a pick up of 50 seats in the House.

[1066AD]

And now they’re going after the CIA etc, bring on the leaks !

[jennyjenny]

With all due respect, I fully understand how the process works.