Mailbag: D’s Shouldn’t Get Hopes Up

Eagle Eye : If I were the Dems I wouldnt get my hopes up too high. Remember this is the party that lost to Dubya … twice. That proves that a party without direction loses to a candidate without a clue.

DFO: The D’s shouldn’t count their chickens due to the Incumbestan issue. Although Bush is in the tank with a 31% approval rating, the poll numbers don’t mean much in individual House districts, where the old bromide comes into play: All politics are local. Only a coupla dozen House seats are truly in play because most representatives are fairly secure in their own districts. On the other hand, the R’s picked up —- what? — 50 seats in 1994 to gain control? It’s doable. But not as easy as it looks in May.