Play to Win, or Gamble on Realignment in Congress?

[JCMach1]

There has been a great deal of optimism among Democrats recently due to what seems to be happening in the polls?

My question is should Democrats focus money and efforts on winning the House, or following the dream that this is a year of realignment and that 30-50 seats are in play?

My answer is something in between... focus on the 15-20 seats you need to win and then possibly put money on a few extra fast closers.

If there is a true realignment, will extra ads matter that much anyway in seats 20-50? i.e. it's political momentum that carries the day, not strategies.

[Ken Burch]

1. It may not be possible to pinpoint precisely which seats we should try for

and which we should write off in this scenario. I don't think we really help anything in working under the assumption that we can only count on small gains.