Will Democrats Take Back Congress This Year?

[Quixote1818]

If their is little or no election tampering what do you expect to happen?

[Quixote1818]

1. What kind of advantage did Dems hold back in 94 before

the Republicans took over?

[Warpy]

3. Not much, not really

although they did manage to block the worst of the right wing's outrages. They still had the pink tutu squad trying to make nice with the junkyard dogs on the right and getting legislation watered down beyond recognition and refusing, with the GOP, to raise the minimum wage to its purchasing power in 1970, before the oil shocks put it way below subsistence level.

(Factoid: the minimum wage in 1954 was pegged to support a one earner family of four on a "thrifty" budget, well above the poverty line)

The problem, as always, is the conservative wing within the party, siding with the ideologues on the lunatic right instead of working to hammer out compromises with progressives and coming up with truly workable legislation.

[Greeby]

4. It was big

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_election%2C_1994 A 54-seat swing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Senate_election%2C_1994

[Innocent Smith]

7. Bigger than Repubs have now

The Repubs picked up around 50 seats (54?) and if I remember correctly ended up with 229 sets after the 94 election.

[newswolf56]

2. The party's failure to mobilize around the issues articulated by...

Gore, Edwards and Pelosi -- not to mention Boxer and Dean -- is a failure of such breathtaking magnitude I now truly understand why people bang their heads against brick walls.

[Road Scholar]

5. Both I hope

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. IF, IF, IF we get rid of evoting machines

we will take back the House and Senate. IF evoting machines with no paper trail....forget about it! This country will be GONE.

[helderheid]

11. agreed. Vote anyway! :)

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. YES!

Otherwise we get the will of Diebold again

[DanCa]

8. we need to unify write now put are differences aside on vote democrat.

That's the only way were going to do it. Vote lib or green were dead in the water. I hate to say but this is the sink or swim time for the Donkey.

[Flabbergasted]

9. Oops I didn't read the first line in the poll

If there is little or no tampering I believe we could easilly take both houses if the Dems keep their momentum for the rest of the year. But I think alot of races will be fixed. I don't expect a gain.

[drduffy]

10. ha

Iran will be bunkerbuster nuclear bombed by proxie Israel
Iraq will still have four permanent bases
Oil will still not be flowing from Iraq
Afghanistan will be further embroiled in civil war
As will Iraq
there will have been a mihop
bush will have declared martial law
fema will be attempting to control all of the US through its divisions of control
the effects of peak oil will be well underway as will those of global warming
choas will be beginning
the american economy will tank - big big time
we will be fucked
etc.

Bet ya.

Best 8 out of 12

[OneBlueSky]

13. not as long as BushCo owns the voting machines and . . .

Republican corporations do the tabulating . . . they cheated in 2000, they cheated in 2002, they cheated in 2004 . . . any doubt that they will cheat in 2006? . . .

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

14. nope, the all GOP, all the time media won't have it

and will giidily trot out the latest lib'rul bogeyman on FOX, FOX2 (MSNBC), and FOX3 (CNN)

[Nutmegger]

15. Dems will probably pick up the house

But to my knowledge, there just are not enough competitive seats in the Senate that warrant a Democratic changeover.

[f-bush]

16. They don't have enough momentum

to take back the Senate, but I bet you they'll take the House and that means impeachment time!

[rucky]

17. We need to pick up, like, 30 seats, right?

And how many seats are up?

Magic 8-Ball Says - "Don't count on it"

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. All of the House. Don't know about the Senate.

[Nutmegger]

19. 33 for the Senate

http://www.fecinfo.com/2006senate.htm

Only a few are competitive though.

[WernhamHogg]

20. Neither

I don't think they will take back either, but I do think that they will considerably cut into the Repukes majority. The Repukes will still have the majority, but they will no longer be allowed to run roughshod as they have for the past 5 years. Of course, I would be thrilled if the Dems took back either or both, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

[Nutmegger]

21. Kick

:kick:

[Kansas Wyatt]

22. Diebold says NO!

Besides, didn't any of you listen to Senator Kerry in the last election?

Senator Kerry said, that the 2004 Election decided the direction of our country for the next twenty years. He wasn't only speaking about the Supreme Court.