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How important are the elections?

How important is the vote if GOP wins

  • Big change

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • Some change

    Votes: 4 21.1%
  • a little change

    Votes: 6 31.6%
  • no important change

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .

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It seems republicans might take the majority, will things change if they do?
 
Ummmm......no
 
Not very. We still have legal bribery in the form of gigantic campaign contributions. This basically causes politicians to serve interests that are in many cases harmful to the electing body, regardless of declared party.
 
It seems republicans might take the majority, will things change if they do?
In what way are you anticipating change? Will they try to reverse some previous decision? I am not sure if they can. Will they be more productive? I highly doubt it. If the GOP takes the majority in the Senate, the cycle will just begin anew.
 
The only thing which would change is that the "party of no" will switch sides.
 
It seems republicans might take the majority, will things change if they do?

There may actually be votes on bills in the Senate now. And we won't have to listen to the new Senate Majority leader pontificate on the Koch Brothers and the name of a certain NFL football team.
 
Keeping in mind that a great deal of continuity is inevitable in the aftermath of elections, this will nevertheless constitute a big change.

If the Republicans take the Senate and maintain the House in 2014, they are more likely to keep that influence in 2016. 2016 will be important because given the tendency for Americans to not elect an incumbent Party 3 terms in a row, you're looking at Republican control of both the legislative and executive branch. Taken together with an existing conservative majority in the Supreme Court (and the likelihood of a conservative appointment to the Court after 2016 if a Republican is elected to President), you have a "conservative" majority in all three branches of the Federal government.

In terms of legislation, you're looking at building up toward a Republican version of 2009, and in terms of overall direction, you're looking at a more conservative orientation toward governance and society in general. However you view the consequences of that is at your discretion, but it is nevertheless incredibly significant. The only consolation liberals would have would be taking the House in 2016 or 2018.
 
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It seems republicans might take the majority, will things change if they do?

Yes and no. Those 300 plus passed house bills sitting in Harry Reid's top left drawer will come up for debate and a vote. Some will pass, some will not. The Democrats will become the party of the filibuster and pray the Republicans do not invoke Harry Reid's nuclear option on them as they did on the Republicans. The passed bills will be sent to President Obama who will probably veto most of them.

But one will see the stark contrast between the two parties in full bloom. Gridlock, it will still be there only in a different form. Instead of Senate Majority Leader Reid tabling everything it will be up to the president to veto quite a lot of it. But gridlock will still exist. That is unless compromise ceases to be a four letter word. But I would get my hopes up.
 
Nothing will ever change, but even if the Republicans take over Congress, it won't matter, Obama will still veto anything they want to do and they don't have the 2/3 majority to override a veto. It's same old nonsense forever.
 
In all likelihood, the most important thing that could happen as a result of the elections in MN is that it could stop being required to order food with wine at restaurants without a full license.

I see no evidence that the majority of politicians of either party serve any of the interests of the vast majority of the people.
 
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