W's guys divided on race for House

I think we can assume that if Dems don't take back at least one body of Congress, we have been robbed, again, and it will be time for serious action against the state, not to mention its corporate string pullers.

New York Daily News - Politics - W's guys divided on race for House:

WASHINGTON - President Bush and the Republicans expect a stinging defeat in November, but they're betting the terror card saves them from an electoral debacle.

'The security issue trumps everything,' a senior Bush official said last week. 'That's why even though they're really mad at us, in the end they're going to give us another two years.'
Nevertheless, many other senior Bush loyalists privately believe anti-Iraq and anti-Bush sentiment will cost the Republicans the House nine weeks from today, a doomsday scenario that would cripple Bush for his final two years in office.

'We'll lose the House,' one of the party's most prominent officials flatly predicted, 'and the President will be dead in the water for two years.'

Even a perennially optimistic senior Bush strategist conceded, 'I'm pretty worried about it. The House is not looking good.'

The Democrats need a net gain of six seats in the Senate or 15 in the House to gain control of one chamber. Barring a huge national wave of Bush-backlash, the GOP is widely expected to lose seats but hang on to its slim majority in the Senate.
The House - which was thought to be impregnable until Iraq, immigration and Hurricane Katrina sent Bush's approval ratings into a tailspin - is 'very much in play and very much in flux,' according to a White House number-cruncher.

'This cake is baked,' predicted Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report newsletter. 'You just don't have a wave of this magnitude and not see 15 seats turn over.'