Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Two More Weeks Of Dirty Politics

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Tensions fly high in the US. How many Democrats will die on Obama’s battlefield? With great certainty we can expect the Republicans to take the House back. They need to win 39 seats. Polls are conservatively predicting a win of 50 seats. (Rasmussen: 55) Winning 5 or 6 seats in the Senate, where the Republicans occupy now 41 of the 100 seats, looks doable. But four seats more may be a bridge too far. Although: one never knows. Note that this year only 37 Senate seats are contested: 19 occupied now by Democrats and 18 by Republicans. Taking ten Senate seats from the Democrats means sending more than half of them home!

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