Gizz-ette
by John Gizzi

12/09/05

'We could be looking at a Democratic House in '06,' a senior Republican House member told me recently. The lawmaker was clearly nervous about the President's record-low poll numbers, the bad reports from Iraq continually pounded home by the liberal media, and the ongoing reports of scandal surrounding congressional Republicans connected with indicted influence peddler Jack Abramoff. Could this combination of negative factors be a formula for Democrats to make the net gain of 15 seats they would need to recapture a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in a dozen years? 'Yes,' replied the Republican congressman without hesitation, whereupon he proceeded to tick off more than 20 Republican-held seats around the country that are in danger of flipping to the Democrats in the third congressional election cycle of the Bush presidency. The third cycle historically yields disastrous results for the party in the White House. He was not alone in this forecast...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp