Both GUEST and Mick have gone part way to recognising only part of my points.

GUEST is right in recognising the difference between the executive and the legislature. However he should also have recognised that the names he referenced are not only in the legislature, but they are in the legislative minority.

At least as important as who is voted into the White House is who is voted into the majority in each chamber. In those elections you are much closer to true democracy. In house elections you get remarkably close to everyones vote being equal. The senate is peculiarly uneven {How many Californian votes equate to one Alaskan vote?}. But even Senate elections are such that most people's vote makes a real contribution to the general election result.

Will the Dem grassroots elect a Democrat Congress?

Richard