When will Dems take the House?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

[Nevernose]

1. 2008

Riding on the coattails of Kerry's first term...though I don't have much hope for that term if we can't at least get the Senate by '06 -- there'll be too much Repug stonewalling to actually get anything accomplished.

[zydeco]

2. 2004.

With the mess this House has made of things we probably won't get the whacko right but I see true conservatives, third party voters, and people who normally don't vote getting together to bring in some adults to fix things.

[freetobegay]

3. 2004

[Bombtrack]

4. We need some anti-gerrymandering orders

I don't know how the federal government or state governments of any branch could do so exactly, but I know it's possible through some oridinances or something.

If you look at a bunch of the big states that are down the middle as far as they vote for statewide and presidential candidates yet have a big majority of republicans representing them compared to democrats in congress, it's clear the problem is gerrymandering. There are a couple states where dems clearly do it like Massachusetts and California but it's still a way bigger problem for us overall.

[Eric J in MN]

6. Until Democratic states like Illinois gerrymander as much as

Until Democratic states like Illinois gerrymander as much as Texas, Republicans aren't going to be interested in moving to a better system.

[jpgray]

5. It's going to be tough

We're not used to this, but we had better learn quickly. We're at a huge disadvantage in the think-tank/policy creation department, and we have a big deficit in media capital as well.