25
Number of additional seats Democrats must win in order to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.
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The “Drive to 25” Is On
Poetic Justice
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
Count California in for at least five new Dem seats as a result of redistricting. Two GOP chairmen are vulnerable — Rules Chair David Dreier, whose district was redrawn to be solid Dem and Administration Chair Dan Lungren, who is one of the least popular Republicans in the state and who won in a squeaker against an amateur in 2010, an otherwise GOP wave year. We could up the Dem caucus by as many as seven but there are some districts where Dem incumbents are contesting each other in primaries.