Chamber Made

For the second cycle, ultra conservatives have dusted off Republican incumbents and promising challengers, leaving the Senate chamber in Democratic hands.  If only we could get them to clean the House of Representatives.

With Republicans having only ten seats to defend compared to twenty-three for the Democrats, early in the year, many pundits expected a Republican majority.  Instead Democrats have two more seats at the table.  The five seat majority may be enough to withstand the difficult 2014 midterm election.

Democrats will have twenty senate seats in play, many in red states, compared to thirteen for the Republicans.  But then Ms. Clinton could sweep in a super majority, in 2016, when Republicans will have twenty-four seats at risk.