Analyst Sees GOP Holding Onto House and Senate Next Month
by Chad Groening
October 11, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A conservative political pundit believes that, despite the Senator Mark Foley scandal and the efforts of the liberal media, the Republican Party will hold onto both houses of Congress in next month's elections.Bill Lauderback, the Executive Vice-President of the American Conservative Union, says he has done an extensive analysis of the 2006 House and Senate races. At election time, he notes, "conservatives consistently turn out much better than liberal Democrats do," which is one reason why he believes the GOP is unlikely to lose either chamber to the Democrats.
Still, the Lauderback does expect the Republicans will suffer some casualties. "We're going to lose some seats in the Senate," he says. "And I'm afraid a very staunch conservative, Rick Santorum, may be defeated." And that will be a shame, the political analyst adds, because he says Santorum is "a true beacon of conservative light in the United States Senate, and I hope he is able to pull his race out."
But overall, Lauderback believes the Republicans will come out ahead in November. "At this juncture, going race by race and then counting it up," he says, "I do not have the House nor the Senate being lost by the Republican Party.
Specifically, conservative pundit thinks the GOP is going to lose some moderate Republican seats in the House. Perhaps if we had good, strong conservative candidates in those seats, we'd have a better chance of keeping them. We're going to lose some seats in the Senate. I'm afraid a very staunch conservative, Rick Santorum, may be defeated."
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
