When and if the GOP loses the congress they will blame the Foley scandal

[WI_DEM]

rather than Bush's unpopularity or the war. It will be their excuse. But if we look at this campaign it has jelled. It has been jelling against the GOP for months. Competitive races have trended to the Democrats according to polls. So, Foley is just another reason to vote against the "in-party" on top of many others: war, Bush, economy, incompetence, scandal.

I woke up at about 3AM and put on the TV and watched a discussion between Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institute and a woman (sorry can't remember her name) representing the Brookings Institute and they agree that this could very possibly be a "wave election" maybe not of the magnitude of 1994, but they also believe it wouldn't be impossible for the Democrats to gain as many as 30-35 seats in the House and 7-8 in the Senate.

And this has been coming well before Foley.

[jfkraus]

1. And in 2008

...they will blame the state of the country on a Democratic congress!

[murielm99]

2. Exactly.

* will probably allow or induce a recession, and blame it on the Democratic Congress.

[WI_DEM]

4. so are we then hoping that dems don't win congress?

sorry, but Bush can make that arguement but usually it's presidents who get blamed for recessions rather than congress.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. Check Out What Katherine M Bharris Has To Spew

"The media would be “quite disingenuous” to blame the Mark Foley case on Republicans." Harris said, “if anything, the Republicans didn’t know about these issues and we’re going to be very anxious to find out who in the media and on the other side of the aisle (Democrats) knew about it and kept this from the public interest, because our children were at stake.” http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/floridapolitics/entries/2006/10/03/harris_blame_the_media_and_dem.html