We might well lose both houses of Congress while getting way more votes

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So far virtually no one is predicting we will win the Senate but we will surely get way more votes for the Senate than the Republicans do. We will romp to huge victories in California, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Connecticut if you count Lieberman's votes as Democratic, Wisconsin, and likely Minnesota. By contrast, only Texas amoung top ten states looks to be a GOP romp. Among mid sized states they should win Arizona handedly and if Webb destructs Virginia. Even giving them those states as large victories they still will be massiviely behind in terms of popular vote. We could easily beat them by 10 million in the popular vote and still lose the Senate. More likely we will beat them by around 6 million and still lose the Senate.

The House is a bit of a different story. There aren't whole states to romp to victory in for either side but there are who cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, New York, and LA where we have several districts that will run 85 to 100 percent Democratic. There are no such Republican districts anywhere. Even Utah has around 35 percent Democratic or independent voters. Thus we will pad our totals with no benefit in those large cities. Conversely we could have narrow losses in places like Western NC where Shuler is trying to unseat Taylor. Enough of that and we will lose the House while getting around 52% of the vote.

If this happens every Democrat needs to immediately start talking about minority government and how minority governments don't get stuff done. We need to filibuster every single, solitary, lasting change of any kind that this minority government tries to make unless a majority of Democrats believe the change is beneficial. We need to use the majority of the majority rule they use in the House in the Senate with the majority referring to the citizens.

I hope this doesn't happen but if it does we must be prepared.

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1. Has this not happened the last couple congressional elections.

And someone thinks America to be democratic.? We have a lot of gaul to blast Russia, considering the government just put journalists such as Gregg Palast in legal jeopardy for photographing private property in New Orleans.

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2. It continually happens in the Senate

though I am not as sure about the House. I do think we got a majority of House votes for a couple of these last elections but not all of them.

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3. kick

[BeFree]

4. Interesting

The numbers of votes projected for this election are about the same numbers the exit-polls from 2004 produced showing Kerry as the winner.

Katrina points out the two styles of government: Do you want leaders who are the same ones protecting social security? Or do you want the kind that sits around patting themselves on the back while the flood waters flow?