But will Congress do anything if Sanders is President?

Sanders has a lot of great ideas about how to take our country back for the 99%. I think we have gotten past the argument that he isn't electable and work continues to elect him. BUT! A main argument remaining is that he wouldn't be able to get any of his ideas made into law. With the current congressional demographics, it doesn't look likely that democratics will retake congress, even with a massive sweep of voting for a democratic presidential candidate.

  *Out of 435 House seats, 168 that republicans hold are either nominally contested( the dem competitor hasn't raised any money and is running against an incumbent), or are completely uncontested
*It looks even worse on http://www.270towin.com/2016-house-election/

  *For state legislatures, in 2014, in more than 33% of state races the election was uncontested....therefore voters did not have a choice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/12/01/there-was-only-one-candidate-to-chose-from-in-more-than-a-third-of-all-state-legislative-races-this-year/

  I know the focus is on getting Sanders to win the nomination and then the presidency, but for things to be different than they were under Obama we need to win more than the presidency. Sanders has repeatedly said that he cannot do it alone, and that it will require a revolution by the voters.

  In many places it might be impossible or unlikely for a democratic to win, but what about an independent similar to how Bernie won as an independent running for congress. We seem to have a very strong ground game and with signatures can get independents on the ballot. Examples:

  South Carolina: No Contested Races! - 6 districts are R, 1 is D, Senator is R
Super Tuesday:
Alabama: 4 uncontested seats held by R's out of 7 total seats
Arkansas: 3 uncontested seats held by R's out of 4 total seats
Colorado: 2 uncontested seats held by R's out of 7 total seats
Georgia: 10 uncontested seats held by R's out of 14 total seats + Senate
Massachusetts: All dem, but none contested
Minnesota: 2 uncontested seats held by R's out of 8 total seats
North Dakota: 1 uncontested seats held by R's out of 1 total seats + Senate
Oklahoma: 5 uncontested seats held by R's out of 5 total seats + Senate
Tennessee: 7 uncontested seats held by R's out of 9 total seats
Texas: 13 uncontested seats held by R's out of 36 total seats
Vermont: Senate & rep are dem, uncontested
Virginia: 6 uncontested seats held by R's out of 11 total seats
Wyoming: 1 uncontested seats held by R's out of 1 total seats

  *Whether someone is liberal or conservative, not having a choice to vote should be infuriating in what is supposed to be the model democracy of the world.
*If we want anything Bernie is campaigning on to happen, we need to mobilize to change this, and continue through 2018.
*I think getting candidates on the ballot who would support Bernie, or at least not blockade legislation for 2 years should be folded into our grassroots organizing and activism. *In my opinion, this should be a campaign issue, especially in areas where citizen's don't have a choice!