Let's Party Like It's 1894!

After the financial panic of 1893, in Grover Cleveland’s 1894 midterm, Democrats went from 218 to just 93 of 357 House seats. Between 1892 and 1894, Democrats lost 125 House seats, about 35 percent of the total. Can Obama’s 2010 midterm be comparable? RCP has 111 D seats being contested and 16 R seats being contested in 2010. This means the GOP needs to be looking at 14 to 30 more seats than RCP is looking at. Let me offer up some more D seats that just might not be as safe as the “experts” believe them to be. I have managed to come up with 19 additional seats that are not in my opinion all that safe.

The major problem the candidates are going to have of the 19 that I have listed is having enough money to buy the radio and TV ads they will need to promote their candidacy. This is a special midterm election that is a national referendum instead of all local concerns. We just need to expand our optimism about what is possible. To paraphrase eburke In this election cycle there is no such thing as a quioxtic quest for conservatives. Let’s not wake up on November 3rd and and bemoan a lost opportunity. Let’s man the barricades and help get them over the top.

Alabama
AL-7(open) Don Chamberlain 

California
CA-10 Gary Clift 
CA-23 Tom Watson 
CA-29 John Colbert 
CA-32 Ed Schmerling 
CA-39 Larry Andre 
CA-43 Scott Folkens 

Colorado
CO-2 Stephen Bailey 

Michigan
MI-5 John Kupiec 

Minnesota
MN-7 Lee Byberg 

Mississippi
MS-2 Bill Marcy 

Nevada
NV-1 Kenneth Wegner 

New Jersey
NJ-6 Anna Little 

North Carolina
NC-4 BJ Lawson 
NC-13 Bill Randall 

Ohio
OH-10 Peter Corrigan 

Pennsylvania
PA-4 Keith Rothfus 

Texas
TX-15 Eddie Zamora 
TX-27 Blake Farenthold 

Cross-posted at RedState