December 07, 2009 02:26 AM UTC

Dems Unlikely To Relinquish Colorado House in 2010, But ...

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• by: donscottknox

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State Bill Colorado (http://www.statebill.com) takes a look today at the 2010 election in the Colorado House of Representatives. To no one’s surprise:

Democrats enjoy a healthy 38-27 majority in Colorado’s House of Representatives. It’s unlikely they’ll lose their advantage in 2010, but they’re being forced to play a lot of defense. …

The sheer size of the Democratic advantage makes a GOP takeover improbable. However, GOP challengers already are lined up for 15 seats held by Democrats.

• House Republicans enjoy a slight majority of incumbents, declared or undeclared, who face no cross-party opposition: 18 vs. the Democrats’ 16.

• Democratic incumbents face Republican opposition in 15 races; Republican incumbents face Democratic opposition in just four races.

• In races where there are no incumbents running, the edge goes to the Democrats: six seats to five.

Read the whole story and look at the Election Tracker here: http://www.statebillnews.com/2…

Who’s viable? Who’s vulnerable? Which party do you think will have control after the next election, and by how many seats?