RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has issued a memo detailing GOP momentum in the closing days before Tuesday’s elections. Mehlman points to the generic ballot question in which Republicans have cut a previous 11 point Dem lead down to 4 points. He says that Republican enthusiasm is growing and that — most importantly I think for the GOP — conservatives are coming home.

Will all this pan out? It is impossible to tell, but I do think the closer conservatives get to election day the more engaged they become. The Mehlman memo is worth reading.

Meanwhile, The American Spectator’s Quin Hillyer makes a bold prediction: Republicans will keep both houses:

When Congress convenes in January of 2007, Republicans will be elected both as Speaker of the House and as Senate Majority Leader.

The new Republican speaker, who will not be Dennis Hastert, will enjoy a margin of only one vote. But in the Senate, where Republicans currently control 55 of the 100 seats and where many pundits are now saying they teeter on the brink of losing their majority, the GOP instead will lose no more than two seats.

And Mr. Conventional Wisdom, who is the lackey of the mainstream media and the supposedly nonpartisan election “experts,” again will have enough egg on his face to make omelets that feed multitudes.

Quin goes through race by race to explain his prediction. His arguments are persuasive.

Hugh Hewitt is feeling it too as he lists five reasons the Dems will not prevail.

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