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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger
You're both forgetting that there was already an anti-incumbent backlash in recent elections before this bill passed. It's already impacted the Democrats and made this a closer vote than it would have been had it been voted on last fall.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a man I don't care for much but who I know to be a very skilled politician, just recently rebuffed a strong conservative challenger in Kay Bailey Hutchinson (who from all predictions should have won) simply by portraying her as a Washington insider. And I foresee that anti-incumbent backlash trending up in coming elections.
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It would have to be a historic (hysteric? lol) backlash for the Republicans to recapture the majority: 26 senate seats and 113 house seats? I don't think so.