Nancy Pelosi told reporters Friday that she has a 60 percent chance of retaking the speaker’s gavel from John Boehner come January due to Republican plans to restructure Medicare for those 55 and younger.
“The momentum is coming our way,” Politico quoted Pelosi as saying.
Yet Pelosi’s rhetoric fails to square with polling data suggesting Democrats may pick up four seats and fall far short of the 25 seats Democrats need to reclaim the majority.
“[O]verall conclusions are pretty similar — modest Democratic gains, but continued Republican control,” Kyle Klondik, House editor for Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” writes.
Other political pundits see similar wishful thinking in Pelosi’s comment.
“With the economy soft and 25 seats needed to retake the chamber, Democrats face considerable odds,” the Boston Globe reported Thursday . “Even as polls show public approval of Congress sinking to an all-time low, the vast majority of incumbents will win easy reelection.”
Pelosi also repeated her contention that Romney will go down in flames against President Obama.
“I don’t think there’s any way on the face of the earth that Mitt Romney wins the presidential,” Pelosi said.
About John Rossomando
This broad needs to touch base with reality. I would love to got to San Fran and talk people out of voting for her period! On the American Communist List Pukelosi is listed as a Commie!
Granny there are a lot of commies in our Govt at the moment, boggles the mind why people cant see them for who they really are.
Pelosi by her absence of scruples has made herself the most unconstitutional speaker ever. She is not really very smart, so it is hard to understand how she has succeeded in doing so much gratuitous damage to our economy and the legitimacy of her legislative body. One has only to realize how many members of the progressive caucus, people we could easily call marxists, want all this to happen as the answer why she has had that success.
She’s as dingy as Reid.