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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
I think Tech is the only person on earth who thinks the Republicans retained control of the Senate...
Of course, his stance might change if something good comes out of the Senate...then it will be the Dem controlled Senate.
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I know math is a difficult stubject for the neo-conned, but I'll try to make this simple:
Current congress consists of 49 Democrats and 49 Republicans.
Equal split, so far, right?
There are two independents. Nether independent is wholly in sync with either party. Still can be an equal split.
Take away one Democrat due to illness* (you have to be present to vote) and you have a 49/48 split favoring the Republicans. If one of either of the Independents chooses to vote with the Democrats, that evens it up again. If, in that instance, the other Independent chooses to abstain (Lieberman fails to vote about 5-6 times more often than Sanders) the tiebreaker vote goes to the President of the Senate.... Darth Cheney.
In theory, the Democrats won control of the Senate. In terms of actual, available votes, they did not.
* brain aneurysm qualifies