This can’t come entirely by surprise, can it?
The futures market on Republican candidates is looking up:
After an August recess marked by raucous town halls, troubling polling data and widespread anecdotal evidence of a volatile electorate, the small universe of political analysts who closely follow House races is predicting moderate to heavy Democratic losses in 2010.
Some of the most prominent and respected handicappers can now envision an election in which Democrats suffer double-digit losses in the House — not enough to provide the 40 seats necessary to return the GOP to power but enough to put them within striking distance.
What to say? Being closer to the majority is still being in the minority, so we have to hope Democrats don’t go reining themselves in to prevent greater losses in the future.
This may not be a factor of the Democrats being too liberal so much as a result of the Democrats being too incompetent. I’d like to think that the American public would rise up against any major socialistic change to health care, but we don’t really know. Do we? Health care in this country has been moving – slowly – in that direction for a long time, but lately, Democrats have been running around like Keystone Cops after three too many highballs and riding the Mega Insane-o-Coaster all afternoon.
Not exactly a fair test.
Via Memeorandum.
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