2010 Election: Worst Case Scenario an Unlikely Scenario...?

[evildevil]

Likely Voters and Unlikely Scenarios

As I've been telling people all week here in Pittsburgh, there's ample reason for Democrats to be worried -- perhaps deeply so -- about 2010. Without major intervening events like 9/11, the party that wins the White House almost always loses seats at the midterm elections -- since World War II, an average of 17

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[ccf_8002]

if the dems lose in 2010, they deserve it. fucking spineless.

[jaded110]

This, as much as I hate republicans.

[goes_kaboom]

Agree.

[noir_aya]

THIS. Democrats really need to grow a fucking spine AND balls of steel to get shit done.

[shirozora]

If the Democrats lose in 2010, I'm done. This shit is just too much.

[goes_kaboom]

Before this week, I never knew how people could be "undecided" or "apolitical".

Now I know how. I'd never thought before that Obama's own administration would push me towards the center from the left, but it's happening.

So many people were so happy, too. :/

[hinoema]

Is it possible that the electorate which is voting in November 2010 will be so down on the Democrats that they trust Republicans more on issues like these? Sure, it is possible -- if the enthusiasm gap is wide enough, if Obama's approval is low enough, if the health care debate has been bungled enough, and if the economy is still hemorrhaging jobs. But I'd consider it something of a worst-case scenario. That's probably the best way to regard these Rasmussen polls for the time being.

So he's saying a Republican gain in 2010 possible but not probable. Considering the way that party is being run, that sounds about right.