Byron York:

“It’s a possibility many Republicans speak of only in whispers and Democrats are just now beginning to face. After passionate and contentious fights over health care, the environment, and taxes, could Democrats lose big — really big — in next year’s elections?

Ask them about it, and many Democrats will point to the continued personal popularity of Barack Obama. But that’s not the story. “I think what’s going to happen is Obama’s going to be fine, and the Democrats in Congress are going to get their asses kicked in 2010,” says one Democratic strategist who prefers not to be named. “This is following a curve like the Clinton years: take on really controversial things early, fail, or succeed partially, ask Democrats to take really tough votes, and then lose. A lot of guys are going to get beat, but the president has time to recover.”

Most Republican hope focuses on the House of Representatives, but even there they have a huge job ahead. Democrats control 256 seats, and Republicans 178. Forty seats would have to change hands for Republicans to take charge.

On the other hand, 52 seats turned over when the GOP won the House in 1994. And even if Republicans don’t get the 40 they need in 2010, they could dramatically narrow the gap between the parties, giving Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership less room to operate.

The polls are definitely moving in the GOP’s direction. Just look at the Real Clear Politics average of the generic ballot question, which asks whether, if the election were held today, you would vote for your local Democratic or Republican candidate for Congress. It’s been dominated by Democrats for the last few years — until now.”

As I’ve said before.  Had the GOP stayed with it’s core conservative principles Democrats wouldn’t have swept in 2006 and 2008.   It’s that simple.  Obama and his socialist grab of America has awakened the sleeping giant which is the core conservative values that most Americans hold dear.

They might have been mad and bought the idea that Barack Obama was a moderate democrat, and by voting for him, thus teach the GOP to mend it’s ways.  But Obama went far left from the start, just as Bill Clinton did, and just like Clinton, Obama will find out that 2010 is much like 1994.

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