The magnitude of the catastrophe facing the Democratic Party in the fall elections is only gradually becoming clear to the leaders of both parties. The Democrats will lose both the Senate and the House. They will lose more seats in 2010 than the 54 they lost in 1994 and they will lose the Senate, possibly with some seats to spare.
In state-after-state, the races that were once marginal are now solidly Republican, those that were possible takeovers, are now likely GOP wins and the impossible seats are now fully in play.
Colorado offers a good example. Betsy Markey, was supposed to be a marginal new Democratic member bot Cory Gardner, her Republican opponent is now more than 20 points ahead.
John Salazar, the brother of the Interior Secretary and well established Democrat incumbent in a largely Republican district, is now almost 10 points behind his Republican challenger Scott Tipton.
Ed Perlmutter, a solidly entrenched Democrat in a supposedly, nearly safe district, is running 1 point behind his GOP opponent, the unusually articulate Ryan Frazier (an African-American Republican with Obama-esque charisma) the Republicans will probably win all three seats.
In the Senate, Republicans are solidly ahead in Delaware, North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas. They have good leads in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington. The Democratic incumbents are perpetually below 50% and basically tied with their Republican challengers in Nevada, California and Wisconsin. Illinois is tied. Connecticut and New York (after the Primary) are in play. That’s a gain of up to 13 seats.
Full article here by Dick Morris Via The Hill
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Dick Morris, a long time friend of former President Clinton, who became a political adviser to the White House after Bill Clinton became President in 1992—Dick Morris is now a political commentator, author, FOX News Contributor and writes at Dick Morris.com
