I have been following the current congressional races for the past year now. The Tea Party movement, which consists of conservatives and former Libertarians is now in full swing. After today, I am going to make a sweeping prediction. Make note.
I will break down many of the races once my other site is back up, but for now, I'll give you the short answer.
CURRENT Congress breakdown
House (435 members): Democrats control 255 seats, Republicans control 177 seats, with 3 vacancies.
Senate (100 members): Democrats control 59 seats (with 2 independents), Republicans control 41 seats.
*** MY PREDICTION ***
First and foremost: Forget ANYTHING that the mainstream media and their sycophants spew out how the tea party will screw up the Republicans. I have been calling campaign after campaign (Magic Jack, love ya!!), so far over 200 of them, and the news I get from the campaigns pretty much match up the primary results so far. So I am going with metrics that the mainstream media refuses to deal with.
First, the House:
The house is going to swing at LEAST 80 votes. That should be a safe bet. But I will go on a limb, and based upon how the candidates will run the general elections, in short basically run them as REAGAN REPUBLICANS and NOT as McCain sycophants, I predict 92 seats gained. Yes, 92 seats. There is a possibility we may hit the magic 100 seats that some politicos are predicting, but I"m being a bit more realistic in some of the swing districts.
Now the Senate:
This is actually a GREATER swing, because it will not just entail a GOP gain, but the QUALITY of GOP candidates will be far more conservative than in recent history.
I predict a 16-seat gain in the Senate...with an outside chance... faint, but possible... of actually pulling an EPIC turnaround, and actually getting a 19 vote swing. The numbers are a bit optimistic for that to happen, but then again...that would give the GOP the magic number of 60.
At the end of the day, the new lineup of MY PREDICTIONS:
House: Republicans control the House with 259 seats, Democrats 166. I will give the Dems the vacancies for now.
Senate: Republicans control the Senate with 57 seats, Democrats 42, with 1 indy (Lieberman). (Depends on Sanders' decision as well)
That is my prediction on this date.