Will Democrats win back a chamber of congress this election?

[Tiggeroshii]

Will they gain the House, the Senate, both or neither?

[AIJ Alom]

1. Both Houses. Walk like you have some cajones bro. n/t

[Greyhound]

2. If we don't take both Houses we have only ourselves to blame.

The Re:puke:s have done just about everything they possibly could to hand it to us, we are just afraid to pick it up.

[damntexdem]

6. I voted the same -- why not vote for what we want?

As Democrats, we don't do that nearly enough.

[porphyrian]

3. But don't pray for it to happen, make it happen.

Or pray while you're making it happen, if you feel you have to pray.

[Kansas Wyatt]

4. Two thirds of the U.S. population will be.....

Wondering the next day, how in the fuck did the Republicans possibly win. Then we'll get to hear how the American people have put a mandate on the BushCo & Republican, Inc. rape and pillage of America. Everyone will be dumbfounded, yet the Republican masters will be bragging about how they knew there was no way they could possibly lose, because those polls had a 20% margin of error and didn't tell the "official" final result.

[saltpoint]

5. Both.

Good poll.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. They will be 2 short in the Senate, 1 short in the House

No take-over this time.

You heard it here first.

[Marie26]

11. What makes you say that?

They seem to have a majority of seats in the House, at least, right now.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. I don't see it happening

And I've heard over and over again that they will definitely take the House, but I haven't seen any real numbers showing that. I think they'll gain quite a few seats, but that a number of seats currently in the margin will break Republican in the next week or so. In the Senate, Tennessee and Virginia are pretty much done, despite the LA Times poll. As long as its within the margin, the GOP ground game will get the loonies out of their houses in large numbers. Webb will lose by 2%, Ford by 3.5%. Santorum will lose big, as will Dewine. Menendez will win by 6% in New Jersey. Tester will win by 5% in Montana, and Dems will pick up Rhode Island in a surprise squeaker.

The big surprise will be that Negron will win Foley's seat. Those fuckers down there are crazy.

Bank it. Bookmark this thread.

[Marie26]

14. Don't take this the wrong way,

but I really hope you're wrong about that. I'm not sure the old playbook of "turning out the fundies" will work so well this year - Republicans are disillusioned over Foley & Iraq, and Ohio Republicans are especially angry w/the party. And Dems are fighting mad & eager to vote. Hopefully, Dems will manage to turn out more than the Reps. this election. There's a couple of sites that have been tracking local polls, and they all predict a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. http://www.electoral-vote.com/, http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=DNW2006102001, http://www.cookpolitical.com/, etc. I tend to trust the judgment of these political experts, though there's no way anyone can know for sure. And if Florida re-elects a Republican w/"Foley" on the ballot, it's time to just disown that state. I do believe (and hope) that the Democrats will gain over 15 seats in the House. I'll bookmark this thread, but I WON'T change my sig line if I'm wrong!

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. You know how I roll

I've been right against the conventional wisdom before, yes?

Unfortunately, I'm right this time, too. There's a very easy bellweather for me. My wife works with an office full of Republicans. They are annoyed, but they're still voting, and they're still voting Republican, even the moderate ones. I don't buy the story of the disheartened fundamentalist base. These people are well and truly programmed to vote, and they will. The polls are wrong. Bank it.

[GreenTea]

8. Are the votes what people are hoping for or somehow by watching polls

they are convinced?

Since 2000 the polls have always showed the Dems ahead...but republicans keep stealing it. And getting away with it EVERY time!

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. They will win BOTH the House and the Senate. n/t

[GreenTea]

10. What are you going by?

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. My gut feeling and the favorable polls.

:hi: I'm being optimistic. :)

[Marie26]

12. They better. nt

[Imagevision]

17. Who's doing the counting? Kenneth Blackwell??