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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:49 AM, DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

> What worries me far more is one party having complete control of both
> branches of congress with a filibuster proof majority and the white  
> house.

That is a legitimate and common concern. Many of us suffered through  
the first six years of Bush rule and came out still alive at the end.  
A filibuster-proof Senate majority is unlikely but here is something  
pertinent that may comfort those of us concerned about the potential  
imbalance of power:

. . . And history suggests that filibuster-proof majorities often work  
better on paper than on Capitol Hill. Ask President Franklin  
Roosevelt. He had an overwhelming majority in the Senate in the  
mid-1930s, but couldn't pack the Supreme Court because of opposition  
from Southerners in his own party. President John Kennedy had 65  
Democrats in the Senate, but couldn't get his civil rights bill called  
up for a vote.

"The numbers can be very beguiling," says Ross Baker, a professor of  
political science at Rutgers University. But, he added, they often  
don't prove to be quite as valuable as they appear.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96513695
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Various reports show that poll workers don't know the laws of their  
state regarding ID materials and registration rules and provisional  
ballots. So, how to deal with this problem? Who would you prefer to be  
running your local polling place? If locals, how to get them trained?