Would you be scared or hopeful if Republicans took control of the House or Senate in November 2010?
I'd be scared since I wouldn't like a Republican Congress. I'm a Democrat. But I don't think it's that likely that the Republicans would take the House or the Senate.
Lets see. The House: Looking at the most recent House projections in nytimes. Com there are Solid Democratic Seats: 168, Seats in Play: 104, Solid Republican Seats: 163.
Of the 104 seats in play 55 are leaning Democrat and 18 are leaning Republican. 31 are toss ups. Assuming each party gets the "leaning seats" we'd have 223 Democrat seats and 181 Republicans.
Even if the Republicans took all 31 toss up seats which is highly unlikely they'd have 212 seats which would not give them a majority. The Senate: We have Solid and Continuing Democratic Seats: 46, Seats in Play: 18, Solid and Continuing Republican Seats: 36. Of the seats in play 5 lean Democrat, 5 lean Republican and 8 are tossups.
This means that if were to assign the leaning to both parties we'd have 51 Democrats which is already a majority and 41 Republicans. Even if the Republicans got all 8 toss ups which is unlikely they'll end up with 49 seats which is close but not a majority and is unlikely to happen. So I'm not too worried.
It's a two party system, checks and balances, division of the branches of government, all of that. Scared is too strong a word, unless you don't trust our system of government. A Democratic President with a Republican House or Senate is a nice balance.
Give neither party complete control, or they will most often go overboard. I prefer a balanced government. I suppose I would be hopeful, since we have a Dem POTUS.
If we had a Republican POTUS, I would prefer at least a Dem house or senate.
Hopeful. The natural state for the federal government is division. It is historically rare for the House, Senate, and White House to all be controlled by the same party, as it is currently.
And the present aberration is not a good thing, regardless of which party you happen to cheer for. When the federal government is divided, checks and balances work more effectively. While some people complain about "gridlock" (i.e.
, the inability of Congress to get anything done), many of us prefer a situation in which neither party is able to make drastic movements to implement its agenda. Thomas Jefferson is credited with saying, "That government is best which governs least. " Democrats will agree that the excesses of the George W.
Bush administration were bad, while Republicans will agree that the excess of the Obama administration are bad. Let's get back to a divided, gridlocked, and possibly even bipartisan federal government, in which neither party is saddled with all of the blame/credit for what happens in our country.
I'd be hopeful. You always have to have hope for the direction of the Country no matter who is there. The biggest hope would be to get them all out and start fresh again.
I would be disgusted instead. The Republicans couldn't actually pass anything and they would stop the Democrats from passing anything either. We would have a do nothing Congress for two years.
Judging by the last couple of years with a Democrat President, and how much things have been 'progressing', I would be scared. Nothing happened when the Reps were in the minority, what would happen with them being the majority? My husband and I joked, that if McCain and Palin won the election we would move to Canada.
Perhaps if the Reps won, we'd consider again. :).
There are 36 Senate races to be decided on Election Day but only one-third of them are considered close enough for Republicans and Democrats to seriously worry about. And it's those races that will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the Senate come January. Currently, Democrats hold 55 seats (including two independents who caucus with the Democrats), the Republicans have 45 seats.
Picking up six seats on November 4 would give Republicans a majority, and they'll have plenty of opportunities. In three states currently held by Democrats - Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia - Republican victories are all but certain, leaving the GOP only three pickups to wrestle control from the Democrats. In North Carolina, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Colorado, Alaska and Louisiana, Republican challengers threaten to knock off Democratic incumbents.
Three more races - Iowa, Georgia and Michigan - feature open races where the Republican candidate stands a good chance, offering nine possibilities in total. It's not all about the Republicans on the offensive, however. While far fewer than the Democrats, Republicans still have a few seats they'll have to vigorously defend: Kentucky, Georgia and, to a lesser extent, Kansas.
But the numbers aren't the only thing working in the GOP's favor; Democrats are also tied to an increasingly unpopular President Obama, who has an approval rating hovering around 40 percent nationally and even lower in many of the states Democrats are defending. That means Mr. Obama probably won't spend much time campaigning, said CBS News Political Director John Dickerson. "What's motivating Republicans in this election is disappointment with the president," Dickerson said.
"If you ask Republicans, more of them strongly disapprove of the job he's doing than in 2010." It's not all bad news, though, he said. "Democrats do benefit from the president.
He can raise money, and he can rally the base of the Democratic Party and that's important in a non-presidential election year when Democrats don't turn out to vote the way Republicans do," Dickerson said. Instead of focusing on the president or any of the foreign policy crises affecting the country, Democrats are trying to keep their races tightly focused on local issues or their opponent's flaws, he added. "Anything that focuses on the unpopular president might rally Republican voters, or at the very least distract from a Democratic candidate's local message," he said.
Democrats would like nothing more this fall than to take down Senate Minority Leader McConnell, the Democrats' chief antagonist in the Senate. Ever since he said in 2010 that the chief Republican goal was to make Mr. Obama a one-term president, Democrats have painted him as the chief obstructionist. McConnell, running for his sixth term, is facing Kentucky Secretary of State Grimes, who has attacked McConnell for his low approval rating in the state.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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