Doesn't it seem like everyone is campaigning against Democrats? How comfortable is the GOP?

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GOP Eyes Potential Defectors

By Anna Palmer and Steven T. Dennis, CQ-Roll Call
House Republicans are already examining which Democrats might want to switch parties after Nov. 2 and are mapping out a strategy for how to persuade them to make the leap.

Republican aides and lobbyists said there are a handful of Democratic Members whom GOP leaders plan to target, with Member-to-Member conversations beginning immediately after the midterm elections. Incentives for switching sides could include a leadership-level position or seat on a powerful committee such as Appropriations or Ways and Means.

“You are looking for someone who has been there three, four or five terms who has a shot at going up the ladder,” said John Feehery, a GOP strategist who served as communications director to former Speaker Dennis Hastert. “One who is enticed by a committee chairmanship or one who their districts are so terribly bad that voting for Pelosi would be the end of them.”

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House Democrats, meanwhile, are working on a counterstrategy to try to thwart any GOP poaching, and they are even eyeing a few Republicans they think might be willing to join their ranks. “There are certainly contingency plans being put in place if in fact the ratio is two or three in different directions,” a former Democratic leadership aide said.

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Republicans appear to doubt that they're going to win the majorities projected earlier.

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1. No comment? n/t

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2. Yep......

Some are still choosing to be driven by any distraction available,
rather than focusing on what should be the most important goal;
saving this damn nation from harming itself and all of us once more.

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3. The GOP is very much afraid of losing, or not winning the landslide they predict,

which may cause them to lose control of the right completely to the 'Baggers and their NeoNazi/KKK allies...the racist face will emerge from the GOP mask. They ARE afraid...they are pouring tons of cash into this, they have subverted the Supreme Court to enable donations from huge corporations, and they STILL fear they will not gain enough power...the republicans KNOW who they are, they don't want everyone else to really know who they are.

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