If you would have told me last year that the Republicans have a good shot to win back the House of Representatives and/or the Senate after what we saw in 2006 and 2008, I would have called you crazy. In both elections the Democrats wiped the floor with the Republicans winning back both chambers and the Presidency. They were riding the wave of Obama and his vows of “hope and change.” Now its 2010 and what a 180 degree swing have we seen with huge Republican victories in heavily blue state of New Jersey and Massachusetts where the Democrats did everything in their power to win. I makes me wonder why did the Republicans lost the last two election cycles. More and more each day I believe that a lot of it was because of the anti-Bush resentment of Americans (shown in low approval ratings) and the Republican party moving away from their core beliefs. Now with the emergence of the tea parties and the Obama administration's persistence on pushing through major health care reform, bad stimulus packages and their socialistic agenda when it comes to corporations especially banks, Americans are scared. You would think that President Obama and congress would move more to the center right where most liberal Presidents move too (look at Bill Clinton) but he hasn't wavered from his agenda, just regrouping.

This growing revolution will happen all over the country, where there will be not as many safe seats. There will be many long serving congressmen losing including majority leader of the Senate Harry Reid in November. If he does lose, Reid will be the highest ranking congressman to lose since Tom Foli who was Speaker of the House in 1994. This up-swell hopefully holds true in my home state of Wisconsin. We can see close battles for two of our long serving Democratic congressmen, Ron Kind and David Obey, even though they should win in the end but they will have to work for it. My focus here is on Senator Russ Feingold. He has held the seat since 1992 winning a very dirty election. Russ stayed away from all the mudslinging with his hokey ads protraying himself as as Washington outsider. He has won re-election twice, albeit by small margins against underfunded weaker candidates. If rumors are true ,this time around he will have stiffer competition in our former governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson. He still is extremely popular, has name recognition and will be able to raise the money to compete dollar for dollar. As a candidate, he's about 60-70% of what I am looking for, which is much higher than Russ Feingold. Although he had reformed welfare in the state, which was used as a template for other states, he liked to spend and tax to make sure Wisconsin had the “Cadillac” of services. He needs to run as a reformer and listen to the tea parties which have a strong following in the state. We don't need another Rino (Republican in name only).

Well, I won't be making any guarantees this time but it looks like unless President Obama and congress reverses their course on several fronts, it would be every interesting watching the second Tuesday of November and the spin afterward. This time they don't have President Bush to blame, but they might find a way to spin it anyway.