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This Time Next Year
October 18th, 2007 (12:51 pm)
Well, add a month. But if current trends hold next year, I would not be surprised if Senator Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election at the same moment Democrats lose both houses of Congress.
Granted, the Republicans have more seats to lose than Dems, at least in the Senate, so they might hold onto that chamber. Today's failure to override the Bush veto on SCHIP and the concessions on wiretapping, added to increasing public frustration with Congress in general (hurting both parties) regarding Iraq, immigration, health care and spending, makes the Democratic hold on both houses even weaker than it has been so far.
If I'm right, it won't be a "soft on terror" image that brings down Democrats. It's "soft on Bush."
It's the republicans that are preventing SCHIP from moving forward. SCHIP is a useful thing to batter them with next election. They're out of touch with the public on this.