Pennsylvainia

With the recent death of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) Pennsylvania will hold a special election this spring. Now the Dems have not had much success with these midterm and special elections for far. There was Virginia and New Jersey who both elected Republican governors, and quite recently the Massachusetts special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy's seat, that, also went to a Republican.

Democrats now face another heated race as Murtha while in office held around a 40% approval rating. So this now opens up many opportunities for the GOP to take another seat in the house and thus add to their roll tide of new Republicans.

These special election often show when a party is on the ropes. The democrats must now be horrified of the thought of losing other seat to the GOP.

2009-2010 Scoreboard:

GOP- 3 Dems-1