Reportedly the mood of the Republicans in Congress is getting gloomy and haunted indeed, in the wake of the three Democratic pick-ups in deeply Republican districts — the whiffs are of 1974, 1964… 1932.  (Soon to be added by a fourth in a slight Democratic district).  The National Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman, Representative Cole, responsible for coordinating campaign strategies has come down to the stripped down assessment “Everybody for Themselves!”, a message which sort of makes his job duty pointless.  The only saving grace line is to point out that these Republican districts have voted for more conservative Democrats, which is interesting as Obama actively stumped for one of the seats and the other seats saw them try to negatively associate them with Obama.

The good news for the Republican Party’s chances is that within these three elections, there is a not spoken about fourth district of an even safer Republican district which kept a Republican.  So, they go into the elections knowing that there is a limit to the envisioned nightmare… somewhere.  Also, they now know that some campaign strategies are failures.  For example, Dick Cheney was sent in to stump for the Mississippi seat.  The Republican never quite recovered from that set-back.

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