Talking Points Memo: “2010 Campaign Preview: Democrats to Say GOP Still Party Of Bush”

Well, you can’t blame them. This year, that strategy did wonders for Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Jon Corzine in New Jersey.

For much of the past year, I’ve thought that while the GOP should make healthy gains, they weren’t likely to take back control of the House of Representatives. I still think that, as flipping 41 seats is a really tall order.

Having said that . . .

But to give a sense of how much more difficult the landscape is this time around, Van Hollen detailed that 42 members are in their “Frontline” program of toughest battlegrounds, a number that has increased as they scooped up GOP seats over the last few years.