For the majority of them, it's basically a lose-lose situation: if they vote for gun control, they anger the N.R.A. and pro-gun voters at home; if they vote against it, they buck majority opinion and risk looking callous and uncaring about the twenty children who died at Sandy Hook.
It would be refreshing and a very positive step for Ireland if they could buck that trend.
Time will tell if they can buck the odds and take on the world's biggest cloud companies by competing on price and performance, or if they can continue to keep prices this low as they grow and must add increasing capacity without the benefit of being webscale.
SkyDeck could mean big bucks for airlines if they charge on a pay-per-view basis, putting a huge premium on the experience.
And if they do not buck up their ideas, argues Paul Ormerod, a British economist, there could be worse to come as information technology and globalisation entwines humanity together ever more thoroughly.To understand many of the decisions that people make, the "rational utility maximisation" of homo economicus must be abandoned, argues Mr Ormerod.
Funds will also be allowed to suspend withdrawals if they break the buck, to allow for more orderly liquidation.Welcome though these measures are, they fall short of the dramatic action needed to tame the systemic threat.
But if they're trying to buck the Second Amendment, all the money in the world won't accomplish that," he said.
Many of our favorites echo the probable nominees, but we have enough curve balls to keep voters thinking, if they're willing to buck conventional wisdom about which shoo-ins deserve spots.
"If they save five bucks and have a miserable week because they can't even get the damn thing, what good is that?" he said.
But the message was clear: If you buck the organization, expect the organization to respond.
