Good News Is Hard to Find for Democrats as Spring Begins

• By Stuart Rothenberg
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• March 4, 2010, Midnight

With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over from a failed two-term Republican president, you’d have thought that Democrats were set up for a pretty decent two years.