Mid-Term Crisis: Bad Men, Big Money, Bankrupt Bulls and Bears (No selfies with the bears, please)

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Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Election substitute: Civil War? It's cheaper, faster and better entertainment.

Wouldn't really rather watch people fighting than people voting?
Of course you would.  War is expensive, that's true but so are elections.  Maybe even more expensive...
That said...
Above all else, what's at stake in Tuesday's midterm elections is control of the U.S. Senate.
 That, in turn, will shape the fate of President Barack Obama's agenda for the rest of his term. And everything else that Congress wants to do, or stop from getting done.
Republicans need to gain six seats to win back the Senate majority they lost in 2006. Their odds are good, but it's not a slam dunk.
 Polls and pundits alike see about 10 Democratic seats that could switch to the GOP. Democrats could flip a GOP seat, too, or perhaps as many as three if they have what passes for a good night.
Voters will also pick a new House of Representatives, choose governors in three dozen states and decide more than 100 ballot measures.

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