How will the 2010 Congressional elections work out -- a predictive analysis from Midknight Review.

Senate race: If you go to RealClearPolitics, you will find a review of the Senate midterm elections. Their review gives a potential 8 seats to the GOP. At least 2 of those seats are considered "toss ups." The GOP needs to win 10 seats to take control of that house.

In the House, there are 58 Democrat seats that are in doubt - 35 of these considered "toss-ups." The GOP needs a total gain of 41 seats to take back control of the House. All budgetary proposals must originate in the House of Representatives according to the US Constitution.
With a victory total of 30 seats in the House, the GOP will have a total of 208 votes -- 218 are required to get anything done. With a minority vote of 208 and 10 fiscally conservative democrats, the present idiocy of uncontrolled spending will come to a sudden stop. That does not allow a repeal of present policies in accordance with popular opinion (63% currently want the healthcare bill repealed) but it does mean the end to confiscatory taxation without representation and the legislative tyranny we have seen since Obama has come into power.

In the Senate, a turn over of 9 seats would leave the Senate in the control of the Dems but they would no longer be able to pass legislation with a 51 vote "reconciliation" maneuver as they have done in recent months. A turn over of 4 to 6 seats would put the 60 vote rule back into play in a major way, forcing bipartisan cooperation of most legislation. Understand that the hated "filibuster" is nothing more than the extension of Senate debate over a particular issue. All bills are given a time for discussion. A "filibuster" is officially declared when the Senate votes to end debate and the 60 vote requirement is not attained. You have heard the Left scream about the GOP's misuse of the filibuster in recent months. In fact, there have been no filibusters in the 111th Congress because Harry Reid refused to allow a vote to end debate without full assurance of a 60 vote victory. No vote, no filibuster. Period. If, for example, Reid had called for a vote on the healthcare reform bill at anytime during 2009, the bill would have been defeated and the nation could rest. But he would not allow such a vote. It was Reid and the Obama administration who refused to follow the rules and we now have a bill that will cost more than a trillion dollars in its first decade and 4 to 6 trillion in the second decade.

With that in mind, it is critical that fiscal conservatives return to political power by 2012. 2010 is a start.