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The bumrush for power

12:23 / 03.10.02

This year there seems to be a huge battle of Olympian proportions by the GOP and Democratic parties in an effort to establish how the Senate will be run this year. Republicans are looking to topple the Dem's 51-49 Senate majority by insuring the wins of Repubs in crucial states during the upcoming Senate elections. Democrats are attempting to hold on to their present majority status quo and maybe up the leverage a little. Key critical states of change are shown >here.

One of the biggest fights currently, and in the same vein as the 2000 presidential elections, seems to be Republicans in New Jersey attempting to cheat or completely undermine the democratic process just in an effort to win and establish representative power.

New Jersey Republicans on Thursday prepared to mount a three-pronged federal legal attack on a court-mandated plan allowing Democrats to replace scandal-tainted Sen. Robert Torricelli with a widely known political veteran on the Nov. 5 ballot.

But on Thursday, lawyers for Forrester (the Republican cantidate) were expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state high court's ruling amid fears that a Lautenberg candidacy could rob the Republican of victory and help Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate.

"It is in the public interest and the general intent of the election laws to preserve the two-party system and to submit to the electorate a ballot bearing the names of candidates of both major political parties," the court's two Republicans, four Democrats and one Independent said in their written opinion.

Republicans reacted angrily to their state high court defeat, calling it a sad day for New Jersey.

You didn't get another choice on the ballot after the non-Republican cantidate backed out so nyah nyah we win by default.

So.... place your bets, folks. Will this year see the Republican run Senate and Republican president establish a New World Order? Or is this the mark of a desperate party trying to grab for power any way they can? Weigh in.