I am a Liberal but I know that with the Obama Administrations extremely low approval rating – Republicans are going to win in just about all races. I just am not sure how many seats in both the Senate and House will be up for grabs. How can I find out?
Every two years -every- seat in the House of Representatives is up for grabs. They serve 2 year terms. So they have to get re-elected in every even-year election.
Senators serve for six years, so 1/3 of the seats come up every time.
There are any number of websites that list all the races. Just google ‘Senate races 2010′ or ‘congressional races 2010′.
I think anti-incumbent feeling has been greatly exaggerated by the Republicans. Whenever the Republicans are out of office they push anti-incumbency measures. Last time it was term limits (which they fought hard for as the minority, but forgot all about once they had majorities in both houses), and the DRIP campaign (Don’t Re-elect Incumbent Politicians). But in fact incumbents have a huge advantage and they are very hard to unseat.
In the primary earlier this month, all the news networks reported a very strong anti-incumbent feeling in the electorate. But of 80-something incumbents who had to defend their seats, all but 2 won, and one of those was only forced into a run-off.
October 2, 2009
Americans are buying guns and ammunition at record levels. The reasons seem easy to determine. President Obama promises to be the most Second Amendment hostile president of all-time. Obama has a full democratic Congress and they may pass the most extreme gun control ever seen.
A year and a half after George W. Bush left office, here is video of Democrat Barney Frank actually claiming that the low approval rating for his Democrat-led Congress is the fault of George W. Bush and the media. NO Congress has ever had better media coverage, and to blame Bush is preposterous. We’ll see if voters blame Bush this November.
http://MOXNews.com/
Faulker4NYDistrict15http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/faulker4nydistrict15NewsNew York Politician, Harlem, District 15, Politics, New York Congress, Charles RangelFaulkner for Congress Volunteers Meeting2010-04-20
State Sen. Julie Lassa, D-Stevens Point, discusses her campaign to succeed U.S. Rep. David Obey, D-Wausau, in the 7th Congressional District.
October 2, 2008