Hope for the GOP

From the LA Times:

And some analysts are no longer writing off GOP chances of holding on to seats in Texas and Florida that were vacated when scandal-scarred Republicans Tom DeLay and Mark Foley quit the House.

Bush on Thursday was in Billings, Mont., campaigning for Burns and attacking the Democrats, who he said were undermining the Iraq war effort.

Senior party officials, including Rove and Bush, insist that Republican fundraising and voter-mobilization advantages — or some 11th-hour surprise — will preserve their Senate majority and keep GOP losses below the 15 seats that would give Democrats control of the House.

"The Republicans are going to make a great goal-line stand," said GOP pollster Whit Ayres.