I don't want everybody to vote.

Elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning

of our country and they are not now.

As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting

populace goes out.

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The first part of this is not amazing at all.

You already know what happened here in the last set of elections in 2014.

Republicans controlled the Senate.

They took control of it.

There's now 54 Republican senators and 46 senators that caucus with the Democrats.

So 54 to 46, the Republicans lead in the Senate.

Okay, nobody's surprised by this.

Now, you let them know how many votes went in the direction of the Democrats.

How many in the direction of the Republicans?

Now that's where it gets interesting.

Now, understand that the Senate has about a third of the of the body up for election every two years.

So they rotate.

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