The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

10/26/05

If you're a Republican and already worried about your party's prospects in 2006, pollster Frank Luntz, a Republican himself, has a message for you: It's worse than you think. Luntz, who worked with Republicans in 1994 to draft the Contract With America and win a realigning election, said political conditions are as bad or worse now -- only this time for Republicans, not Democrats. Republicans won 52 House seats in 1994 and have held the House since then. In 2006, he said, Republican control of the House -- currently 232 seats to 203 seats -- is 'in jeopardy.' Democrats need a net gain of 15 seats to take over. 'Republicans have a whole year to get their act together,' Luntz said, though they've shown no signs of doing so. 'As angry and p-----off as we were about politics [in 1994], I think it's worse today,' according to Luntz, who spoke yesterday at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor...

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