How many decades will it take for the dems-on-crack  to be the majority in congress and win the oval office?
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2008.\n\nTHAT IS LIKE 0.2 DECADES.\n\nTHIS ANSWER DESERVES 10.
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I am with you girl, education is the key! It's all really obvious where the Bush administration has gone within the last 6 years. America will regain its self soon with the change of Congress. I am hoping for the start of quite a few investigations to move forward, with a new Congress.
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The next Democrat President, when ever that will be.
1110521
No. If the Republicans lose control of Congress it will be because everyone - Democrats and Republicans alike - will be tired of the rhetorical crap that Congress spews out. \n\nAlthough the President's poll ratings have been really down for a while, Congress's ratings haven't been much better. People are tired of the same old tired rhetoric that has been around since the 80's. It is time for a change. \n\nMost of the House and Senate is full of old baby boomer geezers who are all has beens. We need young blood in there and it is hard to find young people interested when state and local legislatures are the cesspools of corruption that Congress and Washington is. \n\nIt doesn't matter if you are a conservative, a liberal or what you are. All those labels are obsolete and worn out. Congress and the bureaucrats in Washington need to be knocked off at the knees because their ideas are worn out and stale.
770393
Um, as the democraps and repukelicans are mirror images, then your answer is neither.  The truth will come out, in 40 years through declassified USG documents...just like Operation Northwoods, MKULTRA, Condor, Project Mockingbird, so on and so on.  If you have not figured out that politics is just a link in the chain of distraction the USG uses to shackle the majority working class and poor, then you, my friend, prefer to be part of the problem.  Research the Strategy of Confusion, and the complacency and compliance of the political parties, then come back here and rethink your position.\n\nThe truth will only come out after the players hace been long dead and gone...cuz we can't prosecute a corpse...wink wink
825546
agreed....\n\nthe Republican led Congress had 6 long years to screw things up.  Give the Dems some time.  It's moronic to even assume anything at this point.
807941
Our government was designed to be a system of checks and balances.  For the last 6 years the republican party has ruled, unchecked.  The election of a democratic congress will simply restore the system that is supposed to be in place.  Bush will have a harder time trying to push things through a democratic congress than he did a republican one.  Lets hope that whatever does get accomplished is what Americans want, not just what one party perceived as the most beneficial to them and their constituents.
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My husband said we should think how smart it that 2 families would have control if Hillary won for 28 years & if Jeb Bush wins after that it could be 36 years. Maybe new blood would bring us all closer together.
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Firstly, it is not yet safe to declare a victory in both Houses of Congress for the Democratic Party.\n\nSecondly, I do think that will be the reality tomorrow morning.\n\nThirdly, I feel that the best thing about this is that there is tangible proof of a mandate from a majority of Americans that the past few years have been mistake after mistake by the current political leadership.  While my own personally feelings about the matter would lead to making much stronger statements and all executive administrations make some mistakes, we have spent two many years with a leader that is increasingly disconnected from the population.\n\nFourthly, the change of power in political parties will likely give impetus to stronger accountability from the President.  We have just endured 6 years of having obstinate personal agendas being placed ahead of the needs of the population of this country.
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If they are smart, they will be laid back and very careful for the next 2 years and wait to capture the Presidency too.  Thankfully there are Dems like John Kerry who seemingly only take their feet out of their mouths for only a few months at a time.\n\nBut few enough Dems are really smart.  I expect Palosiis going to turn up her annoying personality up a notch or two, feeling like she has a mandate.  This may actually be a good thing, remind Americans why they changed the House to Republican more than a decade ago.
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I would say its most likely to happen within the next decade or the decade following it.  I base this solely on the fact that there is not an African American candidate running for either party with a chance to win in the last election of this decade, the 2008 election (As Obama would be the African American candidate that is expected to make a bid at it, and his age and experience would contribute to a likely loss)
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i agree, but it's been a while since democrats have had control of congress. and don't forget they only control the house right now, it'll still be a while before all the votes for senate are counted and sorted out. here's to hoping for the senate!
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That is the first sign of the Apocolypse....\n\nJust kidding.\n\nIt is extremely rare for one party to control both the congress and the presidency.  I firmly believe that people will vote more Republican for their congress representatives.\n\nThe Presidential race however is going to be interesting.  It is also rare for a party to hold Presidency after having it for two terms.\n\nSince the 1930's no party has held the Presidency over two terms.\n\nBefore 1930:\n\n1921-1929: Harding Coolidge Hoover (Republican)\n\n1897-1909: McKinnely Roosevelt Taft (Republican)\n\n1861-1889: Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur (Republican)\n\n1801-1825: Jefferson Madison Monroe Adams (Democratic-Republican)\n\nIt is really going to depend on several factors.  It will depend on who runs on the Rebulican ticket, the Democratic ticket and what Independants run.  My prediction is that Hillary Clinton will run for President, its the entire reason that she became a Senator.  I also predict she will win.\n\nI'm not saying I am going to vote for her, I am just saying what I think will happen.
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I think it's possible, but not probable. They *will* lose seats, but probably not enough in either the House or Senate to lose the majority. Their problem will be in 2008 when they lose the Presidential election *and* the House or Senate.
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There's not exactly complete control by the Republican party.  And we've had long runs with the Dems at other points in history... in fact, the Democrats had twenty years (1933-1953) of executive control with F.D.R. and then Truman.  And we did alright.  ;)  In any case, these are elected officials, so if things go sour for a considerable amount of time, the American people will demand a change.  That is a check in and of itself.
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Interesting question.\nMy opinion, not until the Senate, Congress, and state and local governments are nolonger ran by old, white men over 55.  If we take a good look at the picture of elected officials, the majority are white males, gray-haired, and over 55.  Look at the Bush Cabinet and what do you see?  It is not a very diverse cabinet that reflects the citizenry of this nation.  It is basically a White House for the "right" White Boy. \n\nSee former President Bill Clinton was not ther "right" White Boy because he was raised in dirt poor by a single Mother in back water Arkansas.  He was not suppose to become President.  That type of background and then to be President not one term but twice gave inspiration to those who are being raised in similar circumstances and conditions that they too can achieve the goals Clinton achieved.  Bill came into office under his own name and achievements.  He didn't have any relative holding political office for him to piggy bank on -- like W. Jr.\n\nI wish Congresswoman Maxine Waters would run, I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.  I think she would give those boys a run for their money.  She has enjoyed serving the State of California for a couple of decades now.  She and Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC Congresswoman but no vote) are two tough customers, they give them white boys hell up here on Capital Hill.\n\nWhat will it take?  American registered to vote will have to take off their color glasses and see qualified, see the vision that a person of color running for President has.  It will take racism and prejudices to be placed on the very far back burner.  It will take parents that no longer teach their children racism and hatred of someone that is different from them.  It will take accepting the differences instead of trying to change those differences.  It will take trying to understand and then be understood.  In Covery's book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People --the firs is "seek to understand then seek to be understood."\n\nUnfortunatel, many politicos turn it around, they want  you to understand where they are coming from and are not seeking to understand what it is the American people really consider top priority in this country.\n\nThat's some of what it will take.
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Does he really have a choice now? They ARE the majority in Congress!