New Print Edition: House Overview

Subscribers already have the April 9, 2010 print edition of the Rothenberg Political Report, but here is an excerpt from the introduction to our House Overview issue:

House Outlook For 2010

Democrats now have an accomplishment with the passage of health care reform, but it’s far from clear that it dramatically enhances their prospects for the fall, as some of their officeholders and supporters argue.

Polling still shows the public dissatisfied with the country’s direction and with President Barack Obama’s performance, and as long as the national unemployment outlook doesn’t start to show significant improvement, Democratic prospects for November are poor.

Democrats will have the financial advantage in the fall, and their strategists will try to localize elections, (just as Republicans tried to do for a number of elections). But the atmospherics remain strongly behind the GOP, and major Republican House gains are extremely likely.

With 68 Democratic House seats at risk and only 11 Republican seats in play – to say nothing of national and districts-level survey data showing voters hesitant to support Democratic incumbents – it’s clear that the battleground is almost entirely on Democratic soil. Obviously, control of the House is at risk.

Subscribers get the rest of the overview, race-by-race analysis of the most competitive races in the country, as well as our ratings.

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