CQ, Broder: Dems Need Vision

From the Washington Post:

A 27-page special report by Congressional Quarterly that examined voting and demographic data for all 435 House districts concluded that for the first time, most districts -- 220 -- have a majority of their populations in the suburbs.

"For Democrats, that means that unless they figure out a strategy for breaching the outer suburban fortress, it will be a struggle to achieve the 15-seat gain they would need to capture control in the 2006 midterm election," the report said. "And their prospects look bleak for a return to the kind of dominance they enjoyed during a House reign that ran from 1954 to 1994."

The study found that 90 districts are urban, 61 are rural and 64 are mixed. In a similar survey in 1997, many more districts were mixed.

David Broder wrote yesterday that Dean and the Democrats need policy and political vision to gain seats. Apparently, they haven't learned the lesson from '04 and '02 that you can't just run as the anti-Bush.