Unfortunately I don’t think the GOP will get to 49, much less 50 thanks to Akin and his enablers & no way does Dirty Harry or whomever become Maj. Leader allow a repeal to hit the floor.
The Ds with help from the manipulative media are superior to the Rs at misplacing blame (See: Libya for example) and can and will win a PR war against the Rs and will make Romney, esp. look ineffective.
What the GOP really needs here is a tidal wave mandate; landslide in popular and electoral votes. Anything less and GOP needs to play prevent defense for two years, let Romney issue his exec order stalling ObamaCare, and focus on the econ. Nothing like a booming econ to get big wins in 2014 and then GOP can go to town dismantling Obama’s work.
It’s going to require a lot of discipline and patience because we want everything Obama gone now, but the Constitutional structure is what it is, and the Media is who they are. We can’t give them a bone. We must starve them.
Suppose Romney wins, but the Dems hold the Senate 51-49. There are two Democrat senators who have large targets on their back in 2014 - Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. There will be intense pressure from their home state constituents to support repeal. They will have to determine whether they wish to commit political suicide by falling on the sword of Obamacare.
Stop being so pessimistic. You might be pleasantly surprised