Who cares? The prize is not worth winning. R's are not loved, and any gains will be made mostly on frustration w/ Dems.
R's already have admitted they have no ideas to fix the economy, and the few they've offered are mostly bad, useless or will add massively to the deficit. Unemployment will remain high, as will voter anger, and there is nothing DC can/will do to stop it.
This may be a big gift to the Dem/Obama for the future. R's will have bigger minorities, maybe take the house, but will not be able to do anything substantial. They will take more blame for the continuing mess as they will have a share of govt.
Obama has already passed a massive amt of his agenda, and they won't be able to undo it.
-Financial Reform
-Healthcare Reform
-Credit Card Reform
-DADT (pretty much anyway)
He won't get much from Immigration likely, nor Climate Change, oh well. If Dems are smart they will do something with the Bush tax cuts, such as keep the middle class and lower cuts, while let the high end cuts expire and aid the deficit. R's won't be able to go back and reopen the issue and get something actually passed, tho their fatcat supporters will push them to try.
What R's will be expected to deal with in 2011:
-High Budget Deficit & the Deficit Commission Recc's
--Entitlement cuts in SS, raising retirement age
--military spending cuts
--likely tax increases
-War in Afghan (a fking unpopular mess)
-Continued high unemployment
-Immigration
They will quite possibly lose some high profile races due to Pea Tardy extremists. So they will be torn in supporting their activists, and ignoring them as they cost them votes.
Since much of his agenda is passed, Obama will get to:
-blast congress for spending
-push budget cuts, blast Congress/R's when they don't pass them
-get to veto lots of stuff Rs want
-look quite reasonable and moderate compared to Rep nutjobs
-Still control the senate, where lots of the important shit happens anyway, like SCOTUS nominees
->Set himself up nicely going into 2012.
Have fun being deputy mayor of Shitsville boys.