Reply #7: A lot of research would have to go into figuring out which R-held

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seats would be safe even from a Predatorgate-type shift in voter sentiment in September '08 (maybe subtract them if money is tight), and which currently Democratic seats might be in play like NJ this year (definitely add them if possible). Then among the remaining 10-20 or so states, legal barriers may be too high in some, as Mr. Coffee points out.

I'd imagine other people have thought a lot of this out, but I haven't looked for it.

IMO, there needs to be a Democratic equivalent of the James Baker Institute of Politics at Rice U, which apparently came up with the ingeniously devious "Voter ID" scheme to disfranchise 11 million disproportionately democratic voters. Democrats could come up with some pretty effective counterstrategies, if only some super-rich Democrats would fund them.