so.. if we wind up with 50R/50D Senate which party is majority?
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Practically speaking, the repubs since Chenney would cast tie breaking votes.\n\nBut it won't be 50/50 since there's at least 1 independent.\n\noops-- hadn't considered who ends up being majority leader etc.  Not sure how that works frankly.  I"m sure there are Senate rules to determine that.
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Looks like we're in for several weeks of uncertainty.\n\nThe Democrats need both Montana and Virginia. They have slight leads in both. We should know about Montana within a week.\n\nViriginia, on the hand, could take up to a month, if not more.\n\nIt would be great if the Democrats wind up with 51 seats (including the 2 Dem-leaning independents), but even with 49 or 50, they will be far more influential in the Senate than they were with only 45.
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According to the mainstream media, the only indicator that matters is which party is in charge at the time.  If it is the Democrats then the economy could not be stronger.  If the Republicans are in charge then we are all doomed.
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House of Representatives-435 seats; Senate-100 seats. The Democrats need to regain control of the Senate by at least 51 seats for a majority and the House by 218 seats.
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It will be a Republican.  The Democrats won't even win mid-term elections.  They can't even decide among themselves on what they believe in.  Even James Carville, a huge Democratic political advisor, is concerned.  He even said so on Sean Hannity last week on the radio.  \n\nAnybody that says our economy is terrible and that the war in Iraq is a waste and is going badly are victims of listening to what the liberal biased media is spewing.  Instead they need to get their heads out of the liberal sand and look around.  A little research would go a long way as well.\n\nReality matters....vote Republican!!!
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GOP...all of the way.\nI'm sick of these candy-ass whiny liberals. \nAnd no, I'm not going to hide like a wimp.
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Democrats & Republican.
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Your question is moot. The center going to win, not the left nor the right. Both liberals and conservatives are bone-heads, and we need to replace them with moderates.
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No one party "controls" the U.S. Senate. There are more Republicans sitting in the U.S. Senate right now than Democrats. But each of those Republicans are free agents and capable of voting against the wishes of their party leaders. Also, just because there are fewer Democrats in the Senate right now than Republicans, that doesn't mean that they have no influence over what the Senate produces.
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good question.\ncant give an answer to that though.\ni guess majority always win.
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House. If only one.\nNot necessarily more power.  They just can just set the agenda better from the house.  Even though it may not get past the senate.
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In Ireland the Majority Party in the Dail,The Irish Parliament, take\nnominations from Individual Party members and if agreed is\nelected it is very loose arrangement.  The Oldest Member is \nUsually Picked.
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Now that Allen has conceded, the new Senate will consist of 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, and two independents who are expected to caucus with the Democrats.  This effectively gives the Dems control of the Senate.
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Harmony isn't the word I would use, but they will grudgingly work together.  Think back to the "Gang of 14" that formed the comprimise ending Judicial filibusters and the use of the "nuclear option" in the Senate.  A similar middle will be formed for most policy decisions made in the Senate since anything outrageously right-wing won't pass and anything outrageously left-wing will pass by one vote and then get vetoed with no chance of an override.\n\nThe end result will actually be a sort of populist domestic policy that should turn out very nicely.  Center-left domestic policy is the antidote to what currently ails the current government.  Minimum wage increase, deficit reduction, reduction of Rx drug prices, fixing the AMT, making Bush tax cuts permanent for income under $100,000 and letting them expire for income over...these are the types of policies to look for in the next 2 years if the era is marked by gridlock comprimise as I imagine it will be.
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Democrats will take the house.\n\nAs for the Senate, it could be a tie!
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Democrats will take over the House.\n\nRepublicans will keep control of the Senate, but not by legal means. Explanatory press releases have already been written explaining why results in some races were not as expected.
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The Democrat party has come back with Conservative Democrats as I am. Corruption of the GOP has ruined their chances for quite some time with the immoral values and scandals that will have to be sorted out to bring back any trust in them. That is why the bi-partisanship vote came out November 7th, and Congress is now majority Democrat. Ultimate power corrupts, and those you have named are the victimizers of the corruption.