< Want a job? Give me your Facebook login (5x8 - 2/24/11) | Main | Who's winning the public relations battle in Wisconsin? >

It's too early to predict 2012

Posted at 10:30 AM on February 24, 2011 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Politics

We're about to start -- if we haven't already started -- the long slog toward congressional elections in 2012. In a video making the rounds from the National Journal, analyst Charlie Cook suggests we shouldn't expect any real change in the makeup of Congress:

Did someone say "Wayback Machine?"

Here's Congressional Quarterly's assessments on the 2010 congressional elections, which was published almost as far ahead of the actual election as Cook's:

With 257 of the 435 U.S. House seats, Democrats are strongly favored to retain their majority in the 2010 elections -- though history points to party losses in the first midterm election of President Obama. Most of the 435 congressional districts have such well-entrenched incumbents that the 2010 House races there will be landslides.