I have said for a while that a dem House with over 230 seats is a powerful mandate to get us out of Iraq and quickly, and that winning the House back, even in a completely fair atmosphere, wouldn't happen for quite a while.
The 'lets teach them a lesson now and win big in 2008' petulant minority is living in fantasyland. We can turn around a Dem House with a 5 or 10 seat advantage. It appears they have over a 30 seat advantage.
We won't be able to turn that around barring some remarkable outside influence(s).
Those can happen.
Here are some numbers from Vietnam era: Congress (Years) # Reps. Democrats Republicans
Other Vac. Del./Res.
91st
(1969-1971) 435 243D 192R 0 0 0/1
92nd
(1971-1973) 435 255D 180R 0 0 1/1
93rd
(1973-1975) 435 242D 192R Independent Democrat (1) 0 3/1
94th
(1975-1977) 435 291D 144R