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Dispose of Democrats and Homosexual marriage

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Right now the Democrats under Harry Reid control 55 of the 100 US Senate seats , while the GOP controls 45 seats. Thus, the GOP needs a pick-up of six seats to take control of the US Senate. Control of the US House is expected to remain with the Republicans. Of the 35 US Senate seats up in 2014, Democrats hold 21 seats and Republicans hold 14. None of the Republican-held seats are considered to be in serious jeopardy. However, five Democrats are retiring, and they are all possible pick-up seats for the GOP (Iowa, Michigan , Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia). Moreover, a number of other very vulnerable seats are up for grabs in conservative or swing states (e.g. Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire , North Carolina, New Mexico , Virginia, etc.). That means the Republicans need to win six of the 13 most contested seats — or less than half — to get to the magic number of 51. What would it mean if we had 51 US senators who supported marriage as the union of on