Official SJ.com Elections Pickem WITH RESULTS

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Uh, Fen, unless you are in Kiribati, you are in well under the wire. Pope's deadline is Tuesday.

 

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Whoo-hoo!
I can officially not win!

 

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U.S. Senate:
Arizona: Kyl by 6
Connecticut: JoMentum Lieberman by 9
Maryland: Cardin by 2
Michigan: Stabenow by 3
Missouri: McCaskill by 1*
Montana: Burns by 1
New Jersey: Menendez by 5
Pennsylvania: Casey by 8
Rhode Island: Whitehouse by 4
Tennessee: Corker by 3
Virginia: Webb by 1

Number of GOP seats in the Senate in the next Congress: 50

U.S. House
I picked 10 races that intrigued me
AZ-05: Mitchell by 3
CT-04: Farrell by 2
FL-16: Mahoney by 9
IN-08: Ellsworth by 12
IN-09: Sodrel by 2
IA-02: Loebsack by 2
NC-11: Shuler by 10
NM-01: Wilson by 1
PA-10: Carney by 7
WI-08: Kagen by 3

The Democrats will have how many House seats in the next Congress: 229

Governor's Races
Arkansas: Beebe by 9
Colorado: Ritter by 12
Iowa: Culver by 3
Maryland: Ehrlich by 2
Michigan: Granholm by 8
Minnesota: Pawlenty by 2
Nevada: Gibbons by 6
Wisconsin: Doyle by 4

 

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This is probably of interest to some of you:

Talkingpointsmemo.com has charted 43 races on which at least 2 of the 3 major pollsters agree on a box (likely dem, lean dem, tossup, lean Rep, likely rep)

Solid stuff.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/nov/06/cook_cq_rothenberg_36_races_considered_toss_up_in_comparative_analysis

 

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Whatever happens, this is the end for electronic voting machines. R's are bitching as loudly as D's; the R governor of SC got turned away, as did that harpy, Schmidt, in Ohio, who got DQ'd on local TV.

 

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I certainly hope this is the end. They are more trouble than they are worth. Paper ballots work just fine.

 

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And paper ballots can result in debacles like the one in Florida in 2000. So is it that much better?

 

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At least you can sit an count the paper ballots and have an objective, impartial official present to help decide which ballots should get tossed and which ones kept. That's a hell of a lot better than having a politically connected company run electronic voter machines with no paper trail and having Diebold's CEO say he's "committed to helped deliver Ohio's electoral votes to president Bush."

 

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The Indiana 8th District is not listed there ... as a resident of said district, I gotta ask: Is it such a foregone conclusion that Hostettler (R) will lose that no one even cares now?

I gotta tell you: I'm getting a weird late vibe about that particular race that it won't go the way people think it will.

 

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Does anyone know what the score is?

 

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I'm about to pass out from lack of my afternoon nap, but it appears that the Florida governor's race also isn't listed.

 

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Hostettler closed really well. Ellsworth was leading by double digits a few weeks ago and Hostettler has pulled within 5-7 points. I still think Ellsworth wins, but it will be closer than people think. And if the Dems can't knock off Hostettler this year with Ellsworth on the ballot, I don't know when they can ever expect to knock him off.