Who's more likely to win a supermajority in the senate in 2020?
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  Who's more likely to win a supermajority in the senate in 2020?
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« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2020, 04:29:00 PM »
« edited: June 26, 2020, 05:15:53 PM by Storr »

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Am I the only one who considers "supermajority" as "being able to override a veto" and so 67 seats instead of 60?
That's not an invalid way of looking at what a supermajority should be. But, since the last time a party had a 67+ seat majority in the Senate was in the 89th Congress (1965-67), when the Democratic caucus was still bitterly divided among Liberals and Southern Democrats, I doubt we'll ever see a veto-proof supermajority in our lifetimes. (Unless there is another political realignment, one of which was at its beginning in the mid-60s.)
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« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2020, 05:34:32 PM »

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Am I the only one who considers "supermajority" as "being able to override a veto" and so 67 seats instead of 60?
That's not an invalid way of looking at what a supermajority should be. But, since the last time a party had a 67+ seat majority in the Senate was in the 89th Congress (1965-67), when the Democratic caucus was still bitterly divided among Liberals and Southern Democrats, I doubt we'll ever see a veto-proof supermajority in our lifetimes. (Unless there is another political realignment, one of which was at its beginning in the mid-60s.)

I perfectly agree. Just I consider "supermajority" to mean a veto-proof one and not a filibuster-proof one (especially since the filibuster is a much more transient thing that the presidential veto)
At the same time the Republicans could not possibly win a veto-proof majority in 2020 even if they won every single seat up for election, so in that sense my reading is dumb. (the Democrats could)
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