What does it really mean if the GOP takes the Senate?

[JoeB131]

This is the thing that warms the hearts of Conservatives, that they have a good shot at taking the Senate this year if they can just keep their candidates from putting adjectives in front of the word "Rape".

Currently, RCP has the GOP picking up six seats, three of which they are only picking up because of retirements. but then you look at the populations of those states, and you wonder...

Montana - 1,015,165
South Dakota -844,877
Alaska - 735,132
West Virginia- 1,854,304
Arkansas 2,959,373
Louisiana - 4,625,470

So the Senate will be decided in six states, containing less than 12 million people, and the Conservatives will call this a "victory".
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[chikenwing]

wonder about what,how poorly the place has been run for years now,wonder about that?

 

[chikenwing]

Reid has tossed the dems under his stupid bus. If the dems had somone rational running the show ,they could have kept control.

 

[rightwinger]

If the Republucans take the Senate, they will immediately end the filibuster

 

[JoeB131]

Reid has tossed the dems under his stupid bus. If the dems had somone rational running the show ,they could have kept control.

again, I don't see how.

Three of these are vacancies. Nothing Reid could do about that.

The other three are Begich, who only won because the week before the election, Bush's Justice Department won a bogus conviction against Ted Stevens. Pryor, and Landrieu.

Pryor and Landrieu have hardly been loyal soldiers. Their problem is just as much the unwillingness of rank and file democrats to go out and work for them again.

But to put it in perspective,t here are more voters in IL than there are in all six of these "Swing States" combined. And Dick Durbin is going to cruise to an easy re-election.

If we made Puerto Rico a state, it would have 8 congressmen and two Senators, all Democrats. It has more people in it than five of these six states that are likely to flip.

 

[rightwinger]

Democrats are defending the seats they won in the 2008 landslide. They will have to give some of them back and the Senate will go back to about 50-50

This is the last chance for Republicans to take the Senate taking advantage of a non presidential cycle

In 2016, Republicans have to defend the seats they won in 2010 and deal with a presidential election

Any Republican gain will be short lived

 

[Big Black Dog]

What does it really mean if the GOP takes the Senate?

That idiot, Harry Reid, will finally be told to sit down and shut up.

 

[JoeB131]

What does it really mean if the GOP takes the Senate?

That idiot, Harry Reid, will finally be told to sit down and shut up.

Guy, the last thing you want is the day Dick Durbin becomes Democratic Leader.

He will make you miss Harry Reid. Especially after the Dems retake the Senate in 2016.

 

[Nyvin]

Not to mention that North Carolina, Alaska, Louisiana, and Arkansas will probably be decided with a few thousand votes each...it's not like it's going to be some blow out win or anything.

 

[bendog]

What does it really mean if the GOP takes the Senate?

That idiot, Harry Reid, will finally be told to sit down and shut up.

He's gonna punch right in your mouth! (-:

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

What does it really mean if the GOP takes the Senate?

Nothing.

Their majority will be too small to accomplish anything, and democrats will obstruct as did republicans.

Whatever republican nonsense might get through will be vetoed by the president.

And it would actually work to the benefit of democrats come 2016.

 

[Mad Scientist]

I love seeing Americas' Domestic Enemies get nervous. It means we're headed in the right direction.

 

[Nyvin]

I love seeing Americas' Domestic Enemies get nervous. It means we're headed in the right direction.

Very simple thinking you have there.

 

[billdad19912114]

Conservatives need to stop being crooks and help congress serve our community by means of police. And social security people mean more than this country , people who are on it that what keeps this people moving.

 

[billdad19912114]

I mean business I am jehovah god I stand with josh at my right side sometime and in welcomed people also I want them out of my prescience and in with the new I do t have vote we get eye service.

 

[billdad19912114]

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[Statistikhengst]

Not much, but the statistical probability that the GOP takes the Senate is exceedingly high. It is also squarely in line with electoral history:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/elect...pared-to-presidential-terms-1855-present.html


But unless Mitch McConnell (assuming he is re-elected, and right now, that is a big assumption) does away with the Filibuster, a slight R majority in the Senate doesn't mean much.

It absolutely means nothing in terms of a possible impeachment process, since you need 67 AYE votes out of 100 in the Senate to impeach.


It sure looks like deadlocked government to me, either way.

 

[Shanty]

If the Republucans take the Senate, they will immediately end the filibuster

I'm not so upset that this would happen. It would mean that elections have consequences, and that Republicans would have to answer for their economic and social failures.

 

[Shanty]

Democrats are defending the seats they won in the 2008 landslide. They will have to give some of them back and the Senate will go back to about 50-50

This is the last chance for Republicans to take the Senate taking advantage of a non presidential cycle

In 2016, Republicans have to defend the seats they won in 2010 and deal with a presidential election

Any Republican gain will be short lived

the thing about this is that the GOP isn't gaining traction with voters so far in this cycle, and are blowing their chance to get control of the Senate.

 

[Zander]

Gridlock = less damage by government. I'll take more. Thanks


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