The Republicans have defeated themselves in 2010 with their BP support and banking "efforts"

Anyone with half a marketing skill can now paint the Republicans as pro-banking greed and against protecting the environment and siding with BP in 2010 elections. And more...

Frankly, it's as though the RNC is now being commanded by the insane. The theocratic. Anti-science. Anti-Thomas Jefferson. Anti-environmentalism, which back in the day was a Republican thing called conservation. They are for the banks to screw over the American people. They are for attacking the American family that has someone who needs a helping hand in hard times.

There are so many OBVIOUS ways to utterly defeat the Republicans in 2010 and 2012 that it's something even a 7th grader could engineer.

Unless we have an incredibly clueless apparatus in the Democratic Party that can't see a political opportunity biting them in the nose, the Republican Party could easily be minimized to being a electorally suicidal facade that never reaches beyond 20% of the electorate.

Let's begin the Smashmouth Attack politically on the GOP and fully trounce them into submission. Even the clueless Tea Party hooligans are on our side from a political turnout standpoint.

Clinton was doing just dandy until the Democrats got slaughtered in the '94 midterms, because the public was captivated by the shiny object of the Contract with America. Most voters don't vote based on policy preferences, anyways.

and if only the administration and the Dems had lined up against the bankters, fraudsters and the oil companies.

We'd be looking at big gains across the board, rather than the prospect of losing the House and possibly even the Senate.

Just a few folks from Enron, Wall Street and BP saying how they are to be held blameless, how no one could have foreseen what had happened. Cheney and his 1% doctrine, Colin Powell and George Bush on the WMDs in Iraq. Earlier claims of how tax cuts would break the business cycle and mean permanent prosperity for all.

The same monied interests have been lying to middle class America for 50 years, and they might disbelieve, if reminded of it.

The point is to brand the Republicans as politicians who literally don't care about moving this country forward and are hellbent on no caring for the independent voter, moderates and those affected by their votes.

Amazing how often they rose to the challenge and did the impossible.

which is how do people feel about the economy current & future.
2012 will be no different. Yes it is the economy, stupid!

95% of voters have no clue about details of any bill unless it
starts directly affecting their life.

will rule.

The economy is all that is going to matter. Democrats are in power, and if the public isn't happy with the economy they will vote for the opposition party to send a message. If the opposition party were made up of random barnyard animals, the public will still vote them over the party in power. It is all about sending a message of unhappiness. The Republican Party is about as popular as bad case of diarrhea, but they will probably still win a whole lot of seats in the House and Senate. It is probably not going to be a very good election cycle for us.

You seem to be badly overestimating the general knowledge of the average voter. We are probably going to lose a lot of seats, but we have decent margins right now and if we can make it through 2010 we should be in much better shape come 2012 - assuming the economy really does get better. As long as the economy is bad, people are going to take it out on the party in power (and the President's party if we have divided government).