By 'wipeout' do you mean holding 5, 12, 13, 14, and 15 while losing 1, 7, and 9? Peters is a freshman elected in 2008 with 52%, this is a suburban district most likely affected by the tea party, and the PVI is only D +2; plus it's Michigan. Though the whole auto bailout probably plays well here.
Ya, although Dingell (you remember him?), is hounding the Dems for money because he thinks he might be in trouble. That really would be a wipeout, because then the Dems are down to their two black seats, the Jewish seat (sort of), and the Flint seat. It can't go much lower than that.
If Dingell goes down, then the Democratic party is no longer the Democratic party. It is the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and Professor Barack Obama. The Republican Party is high minded and reformist if a touch elitist, it never goes to the South, it favors government self improvement projects such as those of Daniel Webster, it favors a National Bank, and it is the enemy of populism everywhere, but it freed the slaves and is favorable to civil rights on humanistic grounds. It is fiercely nationalistic, and would object to the division of the nation between slave states and free states, or Red states and Blue states, preferring One America, United forever, indivisible. It is particularly strong in Illinois, the Midwest, and New England. As I said, both Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln are members.
The (white) working class belongs to the T Party, but no one really knows what that is, except that it is strong in the South, heavily populist. Some say it has infiltrated the former Republican Party, which is now the Democratic Party.
