If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November election is a foregone conclusion. According to them, Democrats will win a House majority and possibly take over the Senate, too. History proves it, they say, because the party out of power almost always is victorious in midterms.

Except when it's not.

Two recent examples should give Republicans hope. In 1994, the year many people remember a "Republican Revolution," headed by Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America, captured the House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. So-called "experts" predicted narrow losses for Bill Clinton and the Democrats. The key was Gingrich's optimism and a detailed agenda that could fit on a postcard.

In the 2002 midterms, Republicans again bucked the historical trend, gaining seats in both chambers following the post-9/11 political climate.

What Republicans need to do this year, if they want to keep and even expand their congressional majorities, is to get........

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