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Dorgan's vacant seat will almost certainly get filled by a Republican. This has the potential to cripple the Obama administration's policymaking momentum....Video: North Dakota Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan to Retire | Politics | AlterNet
As much as some do about "teabagging" pervette
You sure do love talking about fisting don't ya, perv?
Just as they weren't happy with the Reps in the last voting cycles.
The political climate appears hostile for Democrats, but it isn't clear Republicans are ready to take advantage.
The Republican Party has its own string of retirements. And while voter unease with the Democratic agenda has grown, especially over the health-care overhaul legislation moving through Capitol Hill, most polls don't show a significant turn in support toward the GOP.
"What you see is discontent with the status quo, but there's been no sea change in attitudes toward the parties," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center in Washington.
Right.
Now here is the article right beside in the WSJ
GOP Struggles to Capitalize - WSJ.com
The political climate appears hostile for Democrats, but it isn't clear Republicans are ready to take advantage.
The Republican Party has its own string of retirements. And while voter unease with the Democratic agenda has grown, especially over the health-care overhaul legislation moving through Capitol Hill, most polls don't show a significant turn in support toward the GOP.
"What you see is discontent with the status quo, but there's been no sea change in attitudes toward the parties," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center in Washington.
You have just been TEABAGGED!
At the rate the left is going
the struggle gets less and less
At the rate the left is going
the struggle gets less and less
Probably not.
The Dems are going to lose seats but the economy is going to start creating jobs soon and that will take out some of the anti-incumbency sentiment.
Poll show, people are not happy with the fisters on the left
Just as they weren't happy with the Reps in the last voting cycles.
Yes
and we see how that worked out
can retirements mount in House
The decision by South Carolina Rep. Henry Brown to retire brings Republican retirements to 14, a number that, if it continues to rise in the coming months, could curtail the expected GOP gains in the House in November.
While much of the focus for the last month (or so) has been on Democrats' retirement problems -- set off by a quartet of announcements in swing and Republican-leaning districts over the last month -- a broad look at the open seat playing field suggests more parity in terms of the two parties' opportunities and vulnerabilities than conventional wisdom suggests.
Republicans currently carry 14 open seats while Democrats have 10. Each side has three seats won by the other party's presidential candidate in 2008; for Democrats, that's Louisiana's 3rd district and Tennessee's 6th and 8th districts while for Republicans it's Delaware's at-large seat, Illinois' 10th district and Pennsylvania's 6th district.
Of the remaining 11 seats for Republicans, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) won between 50 and 55 percent in three (Florida's 12th, Michigan's 2nd and California's 19th) and between 55 and 60 percent in three more (Kansas' 4th, Oklahoma's 5th and South Carolina's 1st).
Those numbers are roughly equivalent to Democrats' current retirement lineup with two districts where President Obama took between 50 and 55 percent of the vote (Kansas' 3rd and Washington's 3rd) and two more (New Hampshire's 2nd and Pennsylvania's 7th) where he won between 55 and 60 percent.