{"id":115095,"date":"2009-12-30T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-the-democrats-will-lose-the-house-in-2010-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:31:27","slug":"8-reasons-the-democrats-are-now-doomed-to-lose-the-house-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115095","title":{"rendered":"8 Reasons The Democrats Are Now Doomed To Lose The House In 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b3b68f00000000000e4544e\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pelosi gavel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trend is not the Democrats&rsquo; friend. At least not in 2010. The party of the sitting president almost always suffers losses in midterm congressional elections. To that time-tested dynamic now add voter angst about high unemployment, big deficits and controversial legislation. Expect Senate majority leader Harry Reid to lose his effective 60-seat supermajority and Nancy Pelosi to hand the House back to the Republicans. Here&rsquo;s why 2010 is looking like 1994 all over again:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Virginia and New Jersey.<\/strong> Big GOP wins in the gubernatorial races not only highlighted discontent with incumbents by recession-weary voters, they also greatly helped Republicans with candidate recruiting for 2010.`<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/james-pethokoukis\/2009\/12\/29\/why-the-democrats-will-lose-the-house-in-2010\/\">Read 7 more reasons at Reuters Breakingviews &#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-the-democrats-will-lose-the-house-in-2010-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-richest-members-of-congress-2009-11\">The Richest Members Of Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-carney-bank-of-americas-politically-convenient-timing-on-payment-for-taxpayer-guarantee-2009-9\">Bank Of America&#8217;s Politically Convenient Timing On Payment For Taxpayer Guarantee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bank-of-america-misses-deadline-2009-9\">Bank Of America Misses Deadline, Tells Congress To Take A Hike<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/CIaJrSRerto\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend is not the Democrats&rsquo; friend. At least not in 2010. The party of the sitting president almost always suffers losses in midterm congressional elections. To that time-tested dynamic now add voter angst about high unemployment, big deficits and controversial legislation. Expect Senate majority leader Harry Reid to lose his effective 60-seat supermajority and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}