In a Republican takeover, which Mitch McConnell would lead the Senate?

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/24/3499096/in-a-republican-takeover-which.html?sp=/99/322/&ihp=1

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There are also doubts about how effective McConnell could be at getting any agenda through. He likely would be running a Senate with just a razor-thin Republican majority, riven by internal divisions between tea party acolytes and centrists over issues such as spending and immigration.

Even if McConnell can somehow keep the Senate Republicans united, they still won’t have the 60 Senate votes needed to defeat a Democratic filibuster and get major legislation through – much less the 67 votes to overturn a veto by President Barack Obama.

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McConnell, as Republican minority leader, transformed how the rules are used in the Senate through “the use of the filibuster as a weapon of mass obstruction,” said Norm Ornstein, a centrist scholar on politics and Congress at the American Enterprise Institute.

“It was used not just on a small number of issues where there are intense differences between the parties, but on the vast majority of nominations – including those that ultimately passed unanimously or near unanimously – and on almost every bill,” he said.

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