Powerful Prediction CNN

[BenDavid]

Stu Rothenberg, predicts the Dems will take over the Senate and the House. Breaking now on CNN..... Paula Zahn, Wolf Blitzer, Jeff Greenfield...
Dems to have 51 seats in the Senate....

[C_U_L8R]

1. We Are A Huge Movement

and our vote will be undeniable !!!!!!!!

[flpoljunkie]

2. Wow! Thanks for the heads up, BenDavid. But we voters must vote to make it happen!

[applegrove]

3. I saw it too. Says 51 Seats for Democrats. There are 6 seats up for

grabs and the trend is Democrats.

[bigwillq]

4. Let's hope so!

:bounce:

[MoonRiver]

5. I AM DEMOCRAT, HEAR ME ROAR!

:dem::nuke::dem:

[INdemo]

11. I heard ya

My question is could Red States be looking like this on November 8th.........

.

[cobaindrain]

6. Don't forget one other thing

Hopefully the majority of Governors mansions as well.

which is a big deal, especially when it comes to campaigning. We'll have a D governor in NY and hopefully a D governor in battleground Minnesota to help campaign with our 2008 candidate.

[Doctor_J]

14. I am more worried baout cleaing up the voting

campaigning will be a nice bonus, but hopefully Stricland can fix the filthy GOP voting corrptuion in OH.

[AIJ Alom]

7. The Year of the Angry Democrat has begun !!! n/t

[INdemo]

8. I saw that and its great news

Which means many congressional races that hasn't shown up on the national radar is in play.I have said since our primary there are two districts in Indiana that we will win and hasn't made the national spotlight.
If so, just in Indiana we would pick up 5 seats....
Now that's optimistic folks

[BeFree]

9. He also says as many as 60 House seats

And ABC said tonight that 53 Republican held seats are in play.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
How High the Wave? Don’t Just Think 1994; Think 1974, 1958, 1982
By Stuart Rothenberg

<snip>

The national political environment currently is worse than it was in 1994, when the Democrats lost 52 House seats, eight Senate seats and 10 governorships, and when Republicans won GOP control of the House for the first time in decades.

<snip>

President Bush’s approval ratings are worse than Clinton’s were - Bush’s are in the upper 30s, while Clinton’s were in the mid-to-upper 40s - and the 16 percent approval rating for Congress in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll ranks far below where Congress stood prior to the 1994 midterms (24 percent).

<snip>

With the national environment being as it is - and given the last round of redistricting, which limits possible Democratic gains - Republicans probably are at risk to lose as few as 45 seats and as many as 60 seats, based on historical results. Given how the national mood compares to previous wave years and to the GOP’s 15-seat House majority, Democratic gains almost certainly would fall to the upper end of that range.

[durtee librul]

10. Don't get too excited...

I heard bush had a huge heat gun delivered to the WH where they are going to thaw out OBL over the weekend and tell us all to be afraid...very afraid. I say be prepared, not scared.

[BeFree]

12. 60 seats and I'll be happy

So will most of America. America deserves to be happy for a change, don't you think?

Really, to accept a threshold lower than 60 seats is to be a defeatist, and that's something people here are tired of. Heck, even one of the best, most respected pollsters has said it might happen. He's the pro, right?

[Doctor_J]

13. Gonna need alot of crying towels for the hosts

i hope they're not settng us up for major trauma on Wednesday