GOP Gleeful at prospects for 2010

Republican strategists eager to rebuild the party and regain voter confidence see the comeback road running over a number of unpopular Democratic governorships on a playing field that favors making statehouse gains in traditionally Republican red states.

Boosting the Republicans’ potential political appeal in the current two-year election cycle is the Democrats’ tendency to propose higher taxes as the solution to their state budget deficits that has sent gubernatorial polls into a steep nose dive in these tight economic times — giving the Republican Party a potent issue in the contests to come.

That scenario appears to be a work in progress in Massachusetts, where the governor’s mansion would be considered a long-shot in the heavily Democratic state, but where Gov. Deval Patrick’s plummeting approval numbers has become a story line that some political analysts see playing out elsewhere in the country.

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