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Originally Posted by Aquillion
While not related to the presidential election, this is still very important:
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens Convicted.
This will likely end his career and give his seat to the Democrats (his seat, of course, is up in the upcoming election.) If an Obama victory brings the close senate races with him on his coat-tails (or even just more than half of the other close senate races), it will give the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate. For those who don't know how the US Senate works, 60 seats is a sort of 'magic number'; it's the number of votes in the senate you need to shut down a filibuster and force an issue to a vote. |
I hope the democrats do get a majority, but not 60 seats. 57-59 would be good though, enough to get things done, but not enough to stop the republicans from filibustering if the democrats are doing something really stupid. Though judging by the last few years, the republicans would be more likely to filibuster things like ending indefinate detention for suspected terrorists and banning torture, while letting things that might actually be a problem slip past.