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Why 2010 Isn't 1994
By CQ-Roll Call Staff | June 24, 2010 9:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

"House Democrats were more exposed in 1994 than they are this year," writes Rhodes Cook in "Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball."
"Then, half the seats they were defending were in districts that had voted for the Republican presidential ticket in one or both of the previous two presidential elections (1988 and 1992). This year, just one third of Democratic seats are in similarly problematic terrain - an important distinction since the vast majority of House seats that the Democrats lost in 1994 were in "Red" or "Purple" districts."

Click on the chart to enlarge. Cook has more charts, too. Check out his full analysis here.

Also worth checking out: Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal lays out the case for why 2010 can be a Republican takeover year.


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