Will Republicans take the Senate in the election?

You would have to do what the majority of the people want, Baldimo...pretty much as it should be.

Nonsense. Each state gets 2 senators because that is the only way the founding fathers could get a union started.

Why do you hate equality of votes, Baldimo?

Yeah, you count. TOO DAMN MUCH!

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You would have to do what the majority of the people want, Baldimo...pretty much as it should be.

This majority doesn't work here in the US. One mans majority is another mans minority and as we have been told the US govt is there to protect the minority. You want majority rules until the majority wants something you don't want. If the majority wanted same sex only marriage would you be ok with that or would you expect the minority to be protected? How about if the majority wanted to change SS to a private system? Would you still back the majority or would you expect that minority to be protected?

This majority doesn't work here in the US. One mans majority is another mans minority and as we have been told the US govt is there to protect the minority. You want majority rules until the majority wants something you don't want. If the majority wanted same sex only marriage would you be ok with that or would you expect the minority to be protected? How about if the majority wanted to change SS to a private system? Would you still back the majority or would you expect that minority to be protected?

You are the one who wants all the control into about 4 or 5 states while the other 50 just do as they are told. You are the one who doesn't like fairness.

I'm an Independent voter; I will vote for the best candidate that matches my ideals.

In today's elections, it's controlled by the GOP state governments, and the SCOTUS allows these shenanigans to occur.

When 400,000 registered voter rolls disappear, I'm not going to worry about my one vote.

It's simple math; it's not 'each vote counts.' It doesn't.

Even in California, the voter turnout today will be less than 50%.

It's not about the voters; it's about how the GOP does everything to win elections through fraud and redistricting.

I still find it very hard to be confident in my intuition about this election, and will watch the results attentively as they come in.

They don't quite have the impact you think they do.
California has 55 electors and Colorado has 3. Yes, it means Colorado has a slight edge but you could make the same argument comparing the small states based on their population differences.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-21/number-of-representatives-by-state-population-u-s-census-2000-to-2010.html

Yes, and Rhode Island pretty much cancels Wyoming's advantage in the electoral college when it gets 4 electors and 1 for every 263,000 people.

You are comparing the 2 extreme outliers. Statistically, it evens out in the end.

Our system is what it is. The Senate/House compromises were indeed necessary to get agreement at the nation's founding, as has been noted. That doesn't mean they are defective now or must be changed.

Human affairs are very complex, and perfect simplicity is not easily atained and certainly not sustainable in the real world.

How many fradulent voter registrations did Acorn create?

A day after the Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans vowed to block early voting dates and locations that he felt would attract African American voters, a progressive group released audio on Wednesday of Georgia’s Secretary of State warning fellow Republicans that Democrats might win because they are registering minority voters.

The audio, posted on YouTube by Better Georgia, features a man identified as Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp telling fellow Republicans at a July 12, 2014 event in Gwinnett County:

In closing I just wanted to tell you real quick, after we get through this runoff, you know the Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November. But we’ve got to do the exact same thing. I would encourage all of you, if you have an Android or an Apple device, to download that app, and maybe your goal is to register one new Republican voter.

The admissions by both Kemp and Senator Fran Millar that minority voters are almost certainly going to vote against the GOP in November contradicts the recent spin by the national party. Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus announced last year that his party would spend millions to reach out to minority groups. The RNC’s own autopsy report on the party’s 2012 election defeats found that many minorities “think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country,” (wrongly, the report argued). Latinos and African Americans voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in 2012, citing concerns about salary, wages, affordable healthcare, and immigration.

On Tuesday, Kemp launched a “voter fraud” investigation into a voter registration effort he suspects may have “forged voter registration applications, forged signatures on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information.” Accusations of voter fraud have been a frequent tool of Republican secretaries of state.

A year ago, Kemp warned that allowing citizens to register to vote on Election Day would undermine their “individual freedoms.” In 2012, he spearheaded an error-riddled effort to purge voters from the rolls just months before the November elections.

Better Georgia executive director Bryan Long said in a statement that Kemp’s and Millar’s comments suggest the investigation is aimed at voter suppression. “The right to vote is sacred, and we should all want to encourage people to vote instead of making it more difficult,” he wrote, adding that, “GOP candidates in Georgia know they cannot win if the electorate reflects the increasing diversity of our state, so Sec. Kemp is using the power of his office to restrict minority voting access. The Justice Department should investigate.

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How many fradulent voter registrations did Acorn create?

I don't know, why don't you tell us since you asked the question.

The whole point to all the hurdles is disenfranchise voters who tend to vote democrat.