I think some of that Botox seeped into her brain.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi isn’t a mathematician, but on Wednesday she shared with reporters an intricate arithmetical formula that shows a “very doable” path for Democrats to win back the House in the November elections.
Most political observers and race forecasters predict Democrats will pick up only a handful of the 25 seats needed to recapture the chamber from Republicans. But the California Democrat, while speaking at a breakfast news briefing Wednesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, said the task is “very doable.” Her victory plan hinges. on the 63 Republican-held House districts that then-Sen. Barack Obama carried four years ago. Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kerrycarried 18 of those 63 districts in 2004, and Mrs. Pelosi says her party should win at least 12 this year.
And of the 45 remaining seats, she said that, conservatively, her party should win one-third, or 15 seats. If her math proves true, the pickup would be 27 seats — two more than needed to win the House.
Republicans still control another 177 House seats — many of which are in solid conservative districts where Democrats have almost no hope of winning. But Mrs. Pelosi suggested that some, particularly seats won by tea party freshmen, are ripe for the Democratic picking — promising an “assault on their districts where they, shall we say, are ethically challenged.”
“Many of these people were not vetted when they ran for office [in 2010], and so we feel we had prospects that can take us higher than that,” she said.