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19 July, 2010

Vice President Joe Biden has a warning for the pundits: Democrats are going to shock everybody with how well they do in the November election.

VICE PRESIDENT of U.S., Joe Biden has a warning for the pundits: Democrats are going to shock everybody with how well they do in the November election.

He's paraphrasing Mark Twain in saying reports of the Democrats' demise "are premature."

While Democratic lawmakers in charge of the party's election efforts joined the Vice President in predicting that Congress will remain in their control, their GOP counterparts pointed to voter unease with one-party government as they forecast a good showing for Republican candidates.

Biden's cheery prediction was in stark contrast to last weekend's talk show comment by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs that enough House seats are "in play" that Republicans could gain control of the House.

Polls for both President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have shown declining support through the spring and early summer as the economic recovery has sputtered, BP's oil well has gushed in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have kept rising.

Joe Biden predicted that as voters start to understand those details and begin considering the alternative policies that GOP candidates are offering, they'll start to come around.

Republicans, he said, "are about repeal and repeat — repeal what we're doing and go back" to policies of the past decade that have been tried and found wanting.