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In your opinion, will the results of the 2010 Congressional elections reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the incumbent in that particular state, reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the current Congress, in general or reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the President?
How about the governor races? Will the governor race results reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the incumbent governor or will the national scene impact people's choice of a governor?
By the time the 2010 elections come around the economy will have started to recover and the dissatisfaction will have mostly dissipated. I expect the incumbents to mostly be reelected and the Dems to gain a few seats despite the unending Republican/neocon/fox propaganda machine.
The governor's races are extremely important because that helps decide the new congressional seats in 2012. Many states have gerrymandered H.O.R. seats, and I don't believe that is democracy, and the founding fathers wanted to stay away from that. But, as a conservative I would rather have more Republican governors if I had no choice.
F.Y.I. The states of Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Arizona will all probly gain one or more seats.
In your opinion, will the results of the 2010 Congressional elections reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the incumbent in that particular state, reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the current Congress, in general or reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the President?
How about the governor races? Will the governor race results reflect satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the incumbent governor or will the national scene impact people's choice of a governor?
Yes to all. If things are getting better (which they will not be), the (D)s will hold their majority. If things are getting worse (my guess), the (R)s will gain a lot of seats both on the Federal (Congress) and State (Gubernatorial and State legislature) levels.
Anyone who voices an opinion about the 2010 races now, 15 months before the election is talking through their HAT! Or some other device. At this point in 2007 the "smart money" all had the 2008 presidential race being a "close run race" between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. In case you've been under a rock since August 2007 I can tell you that the last time anyone saw Rudy he was still doing his schtick on TV (another phrase for what he does is being an a**hole) and Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.
Can we give the 2010 races a rest yet. A lot of people on here still have not accepted the results of the '08 presidential or MN Senate races.
So, if I'm reading you all right, it's not going to be about the two candidates running as much as it is going to be about what's happening nationally with the parties. In other word Democrat X will beat Republican Y or Republican Y will beat Democrat X, regardless of who the candidates are and even in the governor's races it will be more about the national scene influencing votes than the state scene influencing voters.
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