2010 House Election Predictions Seem to Ignore Something...

[Saxwsylvania]

Right on, Arizonan!  You ought to be a political analyst.  I look forward to hearing more of your insights on this forum.  Republicans are screwing themselves with the Sotomayor nomination, which was truly a master stroke by Obama.  I was speaking with one Mexican woman who was so furious about opposition to Sotomayor that she told me she would never vote Republican again.  She told me she had no idea why a wise Latina woman was being opposed and rightfully concluded that the Republican Party was the party of bigotry and oppression.  Don't forget that women too will see opposition to Sotomayor as sexist, and will leave the party in droves.

[Saxwsylvania]

The election predictions also ignore the fact that the GOP is splintering.

Many Republicans are still opposing Sotomayor even though George H.W. Bush and Laura Bush gave the thumbs up for Sotomayor.

Indeed, Arizonan, the GOP is starting to splinter around the Sotomayor nomination.  Never has there been such an explosive issue for the Republican Party.  This could lead not only to an extended stay in the electoral wilderness, but possibly the collapse of the Republican Party.  Sotomayor's nomination is to the Republican Party what slavery was for the Whigs.