Chris Van Hollden

WASHINGTON -House Republicans seem to have found one bright spot in an election cycle even they concede is shaping up to be grim: the battle for the seat of U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Nanticoke), the northeastern Pennsylvania Democrat who is in a life-or-death struggle to win a 13th term in Congress.

"According to our polling, we're still up outside the margin of error and I don't think money can save him at this point," former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) said today.

At a National Press Club luncheon also featuring sitting Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Davis conceded that House Republicans faced long odds, and went so far as to predict that the party's losses on Election Day would be in the double-digits. But he kept returning to Kanjorski.