re: #99 celticdragon

I agree. The Dems would have to be absolute morons not to run their campaigns exactly along the lines you suggest. The only question will be whether anti-incumbent feeling is so strong that voters will vote for extremists so long as they get rid of the incumbents. If that is the case, then the mere fact the Dems have more incumbents could lead to Republican victory.

For those of us in the middle who are troubled by the choices that might be presented, it will come down to a choice of continued one-party rule — with its absence of any real checks on extremism — or having a Republican-controlled Congress that can at least be checked by President Obama’s ability to veto any stupidity that a right wing Congress can come up with. IMHO, the split between a Republican Congress and Democrat White House — and the check that each played on any extremist tendencies of the other — played a large role in this country’s relative prosperity during the 1990’s.