Republican Party In Trouble?

In a story (or stories) that has not been widely reported by the MSM has been the stunning loses by the GOP of House seats in areas that are generally Republican strongholds. Here's the article from the Chicago Tribune about these loses:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-republican-congress15may15,0,6089346.story

For GOP, third lost seat may be cause for alarm

By Jim Tankersley |Tribune correspondent

11:27 PM CDT, May 14, 2008

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They said the first was an outlier. The second, a fluke. But after losing their third seat this year in a special election, House Republicans faced the possibility on Wednesday that if they don't repair their image with voters, they could be in for another rough November.

A Democratic pick-up streak that started with Rep. Bill Foster's upset victory in the March election to replace former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) crested Tuesday night, when Democrat Travis Childers won a solidly Republican open seat in Mississippi.

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That small excerpt shows what could be a bloddbath for the GOP. As stated in the article, this all started in a special election in a Congressional seat that was vacated by retiring Dennis Hastert (R-Ill). The former House Speaker had held the seat for over 20 years. It was safe to say that the district was strongly Republican. Then Democrat nominee for the seat Ben Foster won the seat, a seat held by a Republican for two decades. Then another special election in Louisiana, Democrat Don Cazayoux won the seat that was also held by a Republican. Then Mississippi held another special election, and you can guess what happen. Democrat Travis Childers won the heavily Republican district rather handily.

Can we be seeing de ja vu? Can we be seeing what had happen to the Democrats during the midterm elections in 1994, when the GOP swept into a majority in the House AND Senate? Only time will tell...

On a special note, I just wanted to make note that in the elections Cazayoux and Childers, the GOP had tried to tie the respective candidates to Barack Obama and his now infamous former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. We saw how well that went for the GOP...