Ante Up: Your predictions / expectations for Tuesdays vote

i predict the republicans just squeak by and maintain the house and senate. the fix is in. most americans recognize the problems inherent with electronic voting, yet we still have it. honestly, i dont know one person who actually likes the e-voting. do any of you?

my expectations are that nothing will change and the congress will still do nothing at all, unless you count laying down for the bush/cheney administration as actually doing something. - iraq will continue to be the only war in u.s. history that congress does absolutely no overisight on. there will be no investigations regarding haliburton and stuff like fecal matter in the untreated water they were providing out troops. no investigations into who authorized torture. congress will do nothing to do their part in seeing the war thru.

bush's amnesty bill for illegal immigrants will pass - some republicans will feign disdain, but in the end, since they controll all branches of government it is them and only them who could see it thru. many democrats are pro-amnesty so it really doesnt matter who is in charge, but for neocons to claim it is the democrats who are pro-amnesty is an absolute joke.

the republicans will continue to destory the sovereignty of this country. the north amercian union will steamroll thru, even though most of the country is against it. mexico will control a port of entry in kansas city - mexican and canadian troops will be working on u.s. soil. again though, the democrats are for all this too, so it really doesnt matter who is in charge at this point.

 

I'm with jo mama. (pun intended - yes, I'm a dork)

 

congress still wont investigate the 8 billion dollars that went missing at the beginning of the iraq war.

 

If the Democrats control the House of Representatives, I will consider it a good outcome for America.

If the Democrats control Congress, I will consider it an excellent outcome for America and the World.

If the Democrats control neither the House nor the Senate I will consider it the death of the American Republic.

 

Such doom and gloom!



IMO Democrats will retake the house picking up between 25 and 30 seats but fall just short in the senate, picking up 4 to 5 seats.

I will consider it a good start to reclaiming the America I know and love and will have high hopes for 08.

 

What he said

 

I agree w/CBFC for the first part.

Comments: The Senate is just structured in a way that gives the Republicans the natural edge; the fact that Montana is even a contest, given the monumental corruption of a guy like Conrad Burns (Jack Abramoff's personal Gimp in the senate), is really telling and not a good sign for the state of politics in this country...again. The biggest problem is the total failure of acountabilty that the electoral process is supposed to provide, which is derailed by sickening combo of $$$ and wedge issues.

 

I think there are a lot of hateful, stupid people in America, so I expect the Republicans to maintain a firm grip on Congress.

 

Dems will pick up some seats but won't regain control.

 

Repubs keep control.

 

since 1945, the average net gain for a party out of power in an off-year election is 25 seats, so anything less must be counted as a loss for the democrats. if they fail to take the house i predict the left will rush their lear jets to the barricades to denouce the death of democracy and the imminent doom of the planet from global warming.

the republicans will keep the senate. i suspect they keep the house as well. but for my democratic friends who are so sure this system is fixed, why do you bother to participate if you only trust the outcome when you agree with it?

 

That was pre-"operation ratf-ck." Look it up.

Way to raise the bar though.

The question for you is why do you bother to vote when the New York state Republican party is about as lively as a pile of mulepoop?

 

I'm not making predictions about 11/7/2006 until 11/8/2006

 

I'm going to make one prediction. The election won't be nearly as good for the Democrats as was predicted by the media as recently as last week.

Here's what I'm hoping for: a very small majority of Dems in the House, a very small majority of Republicans in the Senate, and gridlock. I'm convinced that the best thing that's happened in this country over the past 15 years was when Bill Clinton shut the Federal Government down. (Of course I was pretty mad at the time because my vacation to a National Park had to be changed.)

 

I predict that the House will turn over to the Democrats and will have a bout a 10 seat cushion.

I think the Senate will be split.


Tomorrow is going to be a fun day.

 

That was Newt Gingrich.

 

Hope springs eternal.

 

My predictions....

Dems will take control of the House with a 8-10 seat majority
Repubs will hold control of the Senate with a 1 seat majority.
Kinky Friedman will be elected governor of Texas (Perry 2nd, Bell 3rd, Granny 4th).
Kay Bailey Hutchinson will defeat Barbara Ann Radnofsky.
Ellen Cohen will defeat Martha Wong.

 

I forgot one...

Perry will win with a whopping 29% and claim it a victory for all Texans.