FoxNews:
Republicans are mounting an effort to take back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008. If history is an indicator, they will fall short.....
...It will take a miracle for the congressional out party (the Republicans) to elect a president in 2008. Thus, there will be no coattails for Republican candidates.
Also, there were a number of Republicans who barely hung on in 2006 and could fall to well-financed Democratic challengers in 2008 (Heather Wilson, Deborah Pryce and several other incumbents in New York and Pennsylvania come to mind). The mess in Iraq already is putting pressure on nervous Republican congressmen from swing districts.
Additionally, the DCCC is doing a good job of making sure that new Democratic members elected from swing districts in 2006 are raising enough money to hold on to their seats in 2008....
Hmm. Interesting. It appears that many constituents have had enough of the Republicans' support of Bush's Iraq war. Since Pryce won by only a little more than 1,000 votes, it is possible that she could lose this time around. With fixed voting machines and Republicans out of power in Ohio (except for Husted and his do-nothing-GOP-that-caters-to-right-wing-religious-groups), it is possible that we could have legitimate elections in Ohio next time.
ICasualties.org:
| U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: | 3456 |
| Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: | 8 |
| Total | 3464 |
***Also, ICasualties states that Ohio has had 1,056 wounded and 145 killed in Iraq. How many more Ohioans will die or be injured before Pryce, Tiberi, and Boehner stop supporting Bush's Iraq war?