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NOT GETTING COCKY: GOP insiders skeptical of landslide predictions. In recent days, talk of a G?

By Glenn Reynolds

NOT GETTING COCKY: GOP insiders skeptical of landslide predictions.

In recent days, talk of a GOP edge has turned into talk of a GOP blowout. Prognosticators have upgraded the coming political storm from Category 4 to Category 5. Republican control of the House has gone from possible to inevitable.

But Republicans don’t believe it, or at least the insiders involved in the midterm effort don’t believe it. As they see it, they’re in a good position to pick up the 39 seats needed to win control of the House, but polls showing a huge GOP lead are simply wrong.

Republicans don’t deserve to be cocky, and they can’t afford to be slack.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).