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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Tierney Sneed
Republicans may be heading toward complete control of Washington -- maintaining the House, taking the
Sure that the former Gov. Mitt Romney will clinch the
Even if Obama did manage to hold on to the presidency, he will face a Republican-controlled legislature that will likely shut down his agenda entirely.
Cook sees House Republicans losing some of their majority, perhaps five to 10 of the seats he calls "exotic and problematic" that rode the wave in 2010 midterm elections. But he believes that Democrats stand no chance of winning enough seats to gain control.
For similar reasons in the
As for the Republican nomination, there is no doubt in Cook's mind that it will be Romney. Herman Cain might have passion, Newt Gingrich intellect, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry money, but, "Romney is the only guy with the whole package."
For Cook, "The
Either way, Cook says, Obama, quoting the president himself, "faces an uphill battle." Cook adds that the only chance he has is to borrow moves from former President Bush's 2004 playbook and "marginalize" Romney just as Bush's team tried to marginalized Sen. John Kerry.
Cook, who spoke at an event last night hosted by
Most tellingly, he adds, Obama has only 39 percent approval among independents -- only 32 percent among the "pure independents" who do not lean left or right -- and they will be the ones who decide the election.
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