Or if they are, it's the ones like the Georgia 12th. Representative John Barrow is a conservative Democrat, and fortunately has held off three challenges by Republicans. To make the task somewhat easier, the Rethug in question that ran two of those three times looked like the cartoon version of a corrupt good old boy. So people didn't buy that he would be better. I don't know what will happen this time, I hope the Incumbency protection continues to work for Rep. Barrow despite the fact that I disapprove of his policies, it might just keep one more seat for us.
The math isn't hard. The Rethugs win certain states, usually with some regularity. Other states they have a chance, regarding the senate anyway. So look at Georgia again, I know I live here. The question isn't if a Republican will win the seat opening up by the retirement of Isakson. The question is which Republican will win. early polls show the Democrats have a fighting chance, I doubt it. The last Democratic Senator was Zell Miller, a man who was to the Right of the Kaiser politically speaking. Zell Miller if you remember was the only Democrat to endorse Bush during the 2004 Presidential. Early polls tend to take place in and around Atlanta, which is where we have our stronghold speaking as a Democrat. But we are far less represented in the remainder of the state. So Republicans will almost certainly win the Senate Seat in Georgia.
Other Senate Seats are also at risk, in states that Pundits call "Purple" which is to say they go Democratic on some, and Republican on others. We face serious threats in several of these states, and while I doubt the Republicans can pick up six seats in the Senate, I don't rule the possibility out. There are plenty of Purple seats up for grabs this next election. Six seats puts the Republicans in control of the Senate, and we are the minority in both houses of Congress.
We aren't going to get the House, just count that one out. The best we can hope is to hold the Senate, and we should shift funds and our brightest and best minds to those campaigns. Instead, we'll throw money at trying to unseat Bonehead and Ryan. We'll throw money at Bachman's district trying to challenge her. They'll all win, coming as they do from some of the safest districts, and that money will be wasted. Money that could have gone to races which were not like to win, but need to wins.
Make no mistake, despite the fact that Congress has an approval rating slightly better than Herpes, that the individual congressmen have pretty high ratings in their districts. Do you think Representative Pelosi cares that Georgia, generally speaking, hates her? Not one damn bit should she care, because she's elected from San Francisco. Do you think that Ryan gives a damn that we hate him in New York? Why should he? New Yorkers don't vote for Ryan anyway. His district does, and his district will re-elect him no sweat.
Think about it, while we hate the Rethugs, they've won re-election even in 2012 when President Obama won handily. So the voters sent a Democrat to the White House, some Democrats to the Senate, and then refilled the House with Rethugs. Do you honestly think that we are going to win that majority back in the House? When South Carolina sent that jackass Sandford to the House after he was caught misappropriating funds, lying his ass off, and having an affair? If things were half as fair as they would need to be to take the House back that man should have been turned down for Dog Catcher by the voters. Instead, he won, because the people in those districts would vote for Jack the Ripper for Congress before they voted Democrat.
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