Given that I am not a gambling man. Given also I'm a natural pessimist, well not quite true, I could be considered an optimist in that I believe that if something can go wrong, it will.

At any rate I did not mean to imply that I think the republicans will take over in congress. I would bet they pick up seats in both houses, but that's almost a given and a sucker's bet. One of the few times that the opposition DID NOT pick up seats was in '02. iirc