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Barrett, T. (2014). Republicans are Positive They’ll Win the Senate. Cable News Network Politics. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/politics/collins-gop-senate-majority/index.html?iref=allsearch .

            This source was intended to answer my definition research question of definition, What is the controversy in the U.S. Senate? The article shows how many seats the Republicans have to gain in order to win the senate over and what Democrats have to do to keep the majority. It presents the safe states that each party has and it presents the states that are very close introducing the candidates from each party.

 

Bycoffe, A., Boice, J., Fung, H., Jackson, N., Blumenthal, M. (2014). Senate Forecast 2014. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2014/senate-outlook.

            This source is intended to answer my definition research question, What is the controversy in the U.S. Senate? The open source shows us the HuffPost Pollster, which collects every publicly released polls on the 2014 Senate races. The HuffPost Pollster started collecting in formation since July 1st up to October the 27th, when it was last updated. Based on the poll-tracking model, as if now, the Republicans have a greater chance of taking the control of the Senate.

 

Condon, S. (2014). What Will Congress do if Republicans control the Senate? CBS News. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-will-congress-do-if-republicans-control-the-senate/ .

            This source is intended to answer my consequence research question, What would be the consequences of having a new party in control of the U.S. Senate? The open source explains what the Republicans would like to do if they acquired the control of the Senate. It includes critiques of the progress the Democrats did from Republicans members in the Senate, what they want to stop from Obama’s key agendas items, and what changes they would make in the Senate if they obtained the control. 

 

 

Cook, C. E. (2014). Battle for the U.S. Senate. Washington Quarterly, 37(2), 159-163, DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2014.926215

            This source intended to answer my interpretation research question, How do you obtain the control of the U.S. Senate?, and my policy question, Is there a rule or a policy that defines the control of the U.S. Senate? The article is completely about which party will obtain the majority of the seats in the United States Senate in the upcoming congressional elections. The main points addressed throughout the article are what each party has to do to acquire the majority of seats, some predictions on what the author feels will most likely happen, and some evidence to show why he feels that will happen.

 

 

Elving, R. (2014). N.H. Senate Race Becomes Focal Point For Both Parties. National Public Radio. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2014/10/20/357508914/n-h-senate-race-becomes-focal-point-for-both-parties .

            This source is intended to answer my consequence research question, What would be the consequences of having a new party in control of the U.S. Senate? The source is a recording of an interview between Steve Inskeep, the host, and Ron Elving, NPR senior correspondent. The recording starts by talking about how tough it will be for the Democrats to keep the majority in the Senate for the upcoming elections, and how good it is going for the Republicans. For throughout the whole recording it talks about who will win the elections in New Hampshire, Republican Scott Brown or Jeanne Shaheen. 

 

 

 

Gershtenson, J. (2007). Primaries, parties, and candidate positioning in US senate elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 17(2), 165-179. doi:10.1080/13689880701348902

This source is intended to answer my interpretation research question, How do you obtain the control of the U.S. Senate? The scholarly source explains the primaries for the Senate, which is where the candidates from the same political party compete to represent the party for the position in government; the parties in the Senate, in which the United States has a two party system of the Democrats and Republicans; and the candidate positioning for the Senate, which involves party differences and the candidates and their constituents.

 

 

Wallner, J. I. (2014). Parliamentary rule: The US senate parliamentarian and institutional constraints on legislator behaviour. Journal of Legislative Studies, 20(3), 380-405. doi:10.1080/13572334.2013.862090

            This source is intended to answer my policy research question, Is there a rule or a policy that defines the control of the U.S. Senate? The scholarly source explains the Senate. The author explains the procedures of path dependent and majoritarian procedures. Then it explains that there are forty-four rules derived from the constitution, standing rules of the Senate, statutory rules passed by Congress and informational precedents. Then it goes on to explain the deference between the Senate parliamentarian and the members in the Senate. Lastly, it presents three case studies to further explain the Senate.

 

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