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US Senate: 70% chance it will be D in 2017

I would not count those seats just yet, Hillary may win but the Senate is no guarantee, many not vote for Trump or Hillary but that does not mean they are not voting. We Shall see soon enough.

The senate is what I'll be paying more attention to election night.
 
I would not count those seats just yet, Hillary may win but the Senate is no guarantee, many not vote for Trump or Hillary but that does not mean they are not voting. We Shall see soon enough.

Even if the D take it, the count will only be 51-49 or 50-50 with Kaine breaking the tie.
 
I am sure filibuster reform is on the agenda

Changing rules has come back to bite Democrats hard. The reason that the Democrats only had a super majority for such a brief time was because of a rule change just like that one. In Massachusetts, the Democrats were afraid that Ted Kennedy would have to leave office when a Republican was governor. To avoid this they changed the rules making it to where a special election would be held to replace a senator. However, when Kennedy resigned for health reasons (lack of a pulse), a Democrat was governor. Too late! There was an election and a Republican won. Talk about screwing things up. Just imagine how things would have went if the Democrats had that super majority for the whole two years.
 
It all comes down to numbers.

Majority gets you the comittees, which means you determine what hits the floor. But, the Senate can always be shut down by 40% of the players in procedural BS or filibuster.
 
Majority gets you the comittees, which means you determine what hits the floor. But, the Senate can always be shut down by 40% of the players in procedural BS or filibuster.

Thankfully. Of-course that is assuming they are even doing their JOB, these days that tends to be the rarity across the board.
 
Majority gets you the comittees, which means you determine what hits the floor. But, the Senate can always be shut down by 40% of the players in procedural BS or filibuster.

The modern filibuster is BS. They need to go back to talking for hours and hours and hours.
 
Let's see if the house follows suit.

I wonder how many people fear the words "house speaker nancy pelosi"

Such poll results can be wrong. depends so much on voter turnout. Especially if much of the left chooses not to vote, because of Hillary's corruption.
 
Such poll results can be wrong. depends so much on voter turnout. Especially if much of the left chooses not to vote, because of Hillary's corruption.

So much projection... moderate Republicans are going to take a pass on Trump.

"Our model thinks Donald Trump has probably narrowed his deficit against Clinton slightly, but the difference is modest...we’re reluctant to proclaim any turnaround in the race while we still have to squint to see a shift.
A 16 percent chance of a Trump presidency isn’t nothing — as we’ve pointed out before, it’s about the same as the chances of losing a “game” of Russian roulette."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-is-the-presidential-race-tightening/
 
So much projection... moderate Republicans are going to take a pass on Trump.
Maybe so. I assume some will vote for Trump just for the fear of another Clinton White house. Really too hard to speculate with any accuracy, but voter turnout is a major factor.

"Our model thinks Donald Trump has probably narrowed his deficit against Clinton slightly, but the difference is modest...we’re reluctant to proclaim any turnaround in the race while we still have to squint to see a shift.
A 16 percent chance of a Trump presidency isn’t nothing — as we’ve pointed out before, it’s about the same as the chances of losing a “game” of Russian roulette."

Election Update: Is The Presidential Race Tightening? | FiveThirtyEight

Frankly, I don't like either of them. However, I will vote for Trump because I fear having that unqualified piece of crap in office.

Really?

Has she done anything positive?

Funny how many of her complaints of Trump is how he legally claimed deductions. Why didn't she even talk about changing that while she was a senator? Could it be because of all her rich friends that use the same tax codes?
 
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