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In reply to the discussion: How will the second Obama term be different from the first? [View all]unblock
(52,249 posts)i think the most probably outcome is obama wins, republicans hold the house, and democrats hold the senate.
in terms of legislation, it doesn't much matter if republicans win the senate because obama will veto anything overly odious and likely stick to doing "executive branch" stuff. mostly it only changes the way in which republicans can score points. instead of being annoying by blocking legislation, they can be annoying by passing legislation that won't be signed into law. either way, not much gets passed into law aside from what's actually necessary.
whatever unlikely circumstances cause obama to lose the white house probably cause republicans to win the senate as well as keep the house, and then we're into at least two years of ridiculous and disastrous laws that will make us long for the days of the comparitively innocuous republican presidents like shrub or hoover.