What do you fear the most in the next election?

[customerserviceguy]

32. I fear losing the Senate

and the Rethugs keeping the House. Unfortunately, if Barack Obama's re-election looks like a certainty as we are in the weekend before Election Day, I fear that the chances of those things happen will increase, as voters in swing districts and states might just want to send a Repuke to Congress as a 'check' on the President.

If that happens, we have two unhappy possibilities. The first is that the President will not be able to do a single thing for at least the next two years, and the second is the compromises he'll either be tempted to make to get something, anything to pass, and the compromises he'll be forced into to even get budgets passed. We face some serious tax and spending challenges right after the election, and everybody's hanging on the outcome of that election to see what to propose to do about the sequesters, the extensions of FICA tax holiday, UC, and doc fix, and the expiring tax cuts.