Things can change after the upcoming mid-terms as long as people vote (unlikely), and then only if the elected candidates keep their campaign promises (also unlikely).
2010 features the most U.S. Senate seats on the November ballot (37) since 1962.
2010 also has the most elections for governor ever on the same ballot (also 37).
2010 has produced one of the highest percentages of Democratic-versus-Republican House line-ups in modern history.
Fully 405 of House races out of 435 have both a Democrat and a Republican running for the seat—the gold standard of basic two-party choice in democracy.
Democrats have nominated 410 candidates for the House and Republicans have an even larger number, 430. For the GOP this is the most congressional districts they have ever contested.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...y_j_sabato/the_record_setting_midterm_of_2010