Were you expecting the Republicans to retain control of Congress this year?

[Tiggeroshii]

[reichstag911]

1. At least the Senate. {nt}

[davidwparker]

6. my comment too. the house, yes. Senate, that was a stretch.

[bertha katzenengel]

2. Senate - yes. House - no. n/t

[karlrschneider]

3. I was sure about the House but not at all for the Senate.

:-)

[NewJeffCT]

4. I expected them to narrowly retain control

I am normally a pessimist, so I was pleasantly surprised. I'll admit winning the House was not a shocker to me, but the senate was.

[ivycat]

5. yes and no

I expected them to lose the House, but keep the Senate

[Vinca]

I thought we had a good chance of taking the whole thing.

It didn't make sense a tsunami was being predicted in the House, but the Senate was supposedly iffy.

[Richard Steele]

7. The Senate, certainly. That result was very surprising to me. nm

[warrens]

8. My prediction was 28 house seats, 5 in the senate

I came pretty close...

[madrchsod]

9. house yes-senate no

[Rosemary2205]

10. I'm still surprised turnout overwhelmed the Diebold factor.

I figure the diebold factor at 10-20% minimum. It's my guess in all those near 50/50 races the R's probably actually lost by a landslide.

[Tiggeroshii]

14. I think our biggest enemy isn't Diebold as much as voter suppression.

There has been a purge for the last several years of voter registrations as well as a huge misinformation campaign that worked to delegitmizehundreds of thousand(maybe millions) of Democratic votes. I do believe our turnout indeed over came that factor.

[reichstag911]

20. I don't know about that.

At least when there's voter suppression, there's an evidence trail. With the machine hacking, it can be done so there is none.

[Tiggeroshii]

23. Well registration purgin is done on databses

There is no evidence of it.

[sandnsea]

11. No

I hoped we'd win the Senate seats we did, figured we'd take about 26 in the House. People were ready for change. I'm actually disappointed we didn't do better, there's still a lot of delusional people out there.

[Eugene]

12. Of the Senate but not the House.

Karl Rove's bravado did have me worried he had something up his sleeve.

[emulatorloo]

13. I still am giddy that we took back the Senate . . .did not expect it EOM

[MiniMe]

15. House - expected Senate-unexpected

[nonconformist]

16. I definitely thought they'd keep the Senate, and I was very cautiously optimistic on the House.

I've become extremely cynical over the last few years.

[Ioo]

17. Congress is two parts... so the question is loaded...

NO on the house.
YES on Senate

[Chorophyll]

18. I expected them to keep the Senate.

Here's a woo-hoo for our Democratic Week-aversary:
:woohoo:

[WI_DEM]

19. Until about three months ago, Yes.

[tblue]

21. I thought they'd actually GAIN seats in both houses. Thru vote suppression & e-voting.

[Raine]

22. Yes, I thought the nightmare

of them would never end in my life time. :-( THANK God I wasz wrong! :bounce:

[David Zephyr]

24. Yep. And I posted we would take 6 Senate seats, too.

I thought the margins would be better for us and more along what later the exit polls said. But I'm very happy with what we won. Very happy.

There were too many life-long, die-hard Republicans who were voicing anger and too many Independents saying they were voting Democratic.