Reply #24: You are right, I am fast forwarding events.

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And I apologize for the mistake. The GOP BARELY won the Senate and the House in 2000 and Gore won the popular vote (The reason the GOP won the house and Senate had to do with the Gerrymandering done when the GOP won State legislatures in the late 1990s through 2000). It was this Gerrymandering that was the KEY to GOP control of the House in the 1990s and till 2006. Technically the Senate is harder for the GOP to Gerrymander, but you will be surprise at how the Lower half of a Ticket can win the Upper half i.e. Show that the GOP will win the House, and people will vote for GOP governors and Senators (The reverse is also true, but the Democrats have less money to spend to show they are winning an election).