Thursday, October 28, 2010

Will the House Losses Be Bad or Horrendous?

Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
With a week to go until Election Day, House Democrats face the potential of a political bloodbath the size of which we haven’t seen since the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The largest midterm House loss for the president’s party during the last 50 years was 52 seats in 1994. The previous largest losses were 55 seats in 1942 and 71 seats in 1938. While some Democrats say their party will keep Republican gains to fewer than 39 seats, Democratic losses are likely to be much higher. Democratic district-level polling suggesting manageable losses is contradicted by...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/10/28/will_the_house_losses_be_bad_or_horrendous_244736.html

George H. W. Bush George LeMieux George Voinovich George W. Bush Harry Reid

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