Mid-terms are Dems to Lose, not Republicans to gain.

It is entirely within the control of Democrats as to whether they keep the house this fall. They have a boat-load of legislative victories to tout, a growing economy and an effective if not totally appreciated President who still has higher poll numbers than either party in congress.

And it is incumbent on Democratic and Independent voters to rally themselves and their bases to get out and vote. APATHY IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF POLITICAL EVOLUTION. The Republicans have NO arguement as to why they should control the house. Most economists agree that deficit reduction can only happen when an economy has much more steam than this one has right now. That takes away their biggest arguement.

it is incumbent upon the media to 'GET IT RIGHT" when analyzing these congressional races, and not to just spout some aphorisms from the past like "the party in power always suffers losses in the mid-term elections." At least give the public credit for knowing when to get rid of a bad incumbent and re-elect a good one. The truth is grey, and the media needs to see these shades of grey and not deal in literal and figurative blacks and whites.

And as far as the jobs situation goes, unemployment levels for whites are between 8 and 9 percent in most places. Lower than the national average, and just about where they were when Reagan was in office after a year and a half.

The largest portion of Americans unemployed are Democrats, both Latino and African American. Their numbers are in the mid teens. These are the people that need to fight their apathy and get out and vote, because a Republican controlled house will DO NOTHING TO HELP YOU. Think getting unemployment was hard now, Just wait. Think government is broken now? Just wait until everything stops entirely if Republicans take the house and the Boehner's, and Bachman's, and Barton's control the discourse.

We don't need divided government between the parties to get anything done. We just need a majority party that knows it's in the majority and has the conviction to stand proudly by the votes they have cast to really help the American people.