NRCC Chair Lowers Bar-Doesn't Expect Gains in November

[mndemocrat_29]

Here's the link-www.politics1.com

Congressman Tom Reynolds (R-NY) -- Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee -- on Thursday lowered GOP expectations for US House races this year. Late last year -- especially in the aftermath of the Tom DeLay-orchestrated redistricting in Texas -- GOP leaders were boasting that they expected to handily increase their 229-206 majority in Congress. After the loss of two special elections, the GOP today holds 227-208 majority. Recent polls out of Texas surprisingly show Dems leading in some of the gerrymandered House races they were supposed to handily lose. And, with those developments, all the talk of increasing the majority has vanished. "My goal is to bring back 228 ... House Republicans next year," Reynolds told the New York Times -- referencing the number of GOP seats he had before Stephanie Herseth's (D-SD) win on Tuesday. But what about possible gains in Texas and elsewhere, the reporter asked. "My goal is to bring back 228 -- I don't predict seats," added Reynolds. The NRCC leader also made it clear he was concerned about the possibility of more unexpected GOP House retirements this year in swing districts, but joked that he had no power to stop them from happening. Questions of the Day: As candidate filing has already closed in the vast majority of states, which other GOP legislator is quietly contemplating retirement this year ... or could it be someone in a state where filing has already closed, but where the local party could file a replacement nominee?

[dusty64]

1. Lowering expectations

again I see.

[displacedtexan]

2. When you retire, you get to keep your war chest.

The NRCC leader also made it clear he was concerned about the possibility of more unexpected GOP House retirements this year in swing districts, but joked that he had no power to stop them from happening.

How many repukes will take the money and run (home)?