re: #86 kirkspencer

Certainly possible. The party out of power nearly always picks up seats in the midterms.

The problem with this is having the lunatic fringe seize onto it and claim that their tinfoil-hat ideas are working, giving them more power to select the next Presidential candidate - and crash and burn miserably in 2012, locking in the Dems for at least a another four years. The current leadership vacuum in the GOP makes it even more likely that the void may be filled with some Bircher-type fruitcake.