Just about any way you look at the current polls, Republican and Tea Party candidates are likely to easily grab more than the 39 seats needed to re-take the house.
Pelosi seems very confident that the Democrats will retain control. Then Axlerod tells us not to go to bed early on election night. He is telling us that the Democrats, in essence, will pull off some stunning upsets. Robert Gibbs, who once said that the Republicans would almost surely regain control of the house, is now changing his tune. He believes the Democrats will now retain control.
Hmmmm? I believe they may know something that the public does not. Think about it. How hard would it be to bribe an election official in a key precinct to hack the numbers in the Democrats favor? After all, what's a million dollars of "Stimulus" money? It's a drop in the bucket! The corrupt machine could give a million dollars to a thousand corrupt officials. After all, what's a billion dollars in "Stimulus" money? ... a bucket of water out of a bathtub! No big deal.
Why are these top Democrats suddenly so confident?