Official SJ.com Elections Pickem WITH RESULTS

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Zeke, I hope you know something there because Doyle has done an awful lot of work to rig this baby with his wholly owned state elections board.

 

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Two out of three.
Hos and Count Chocola go down.
Third guy squeaks, I think.

 

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Paper ballots didn't cause the mess in Florida. There were other reasons, and one of them is losing big tonight.

 

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points are percentage

U.S. Senate:
Arizona: Jon Kyl - by 5 points *
Connecticut: Joe Lieberman by 7 points *
Maryland: Ben Cardin by 8 points
Michigan: Debbie Stabenow* by 10 points
Missouri: James Talent by 2 points
Montana: Jon Tester by 2 points
New Jersey: Bob Menendez* by 3 points
Pennsylvania: Bob Casey by 9 points
Rhode Island: Sheldon Whitehouse by 6 points
Tennessee: Bob Corker by 5 points
Virginia: Jim Webb by 3 points
Number of GOP seats in the Senate in the next Congress: 51

U.S. House
I picked 10 races that intrigued me
AZ-05: Harry Mitchell by 3 points
CT-04: Diane Farrell by 6 points...
FL-16: Tim Mahoney by 8 points
IN-08: John Hostettler* by 7 points
IN-09: Baron Hill by 4 points
IA-02: Jim Leach* by 7 points
NC-11: Heath Shuler by 6 points
NM-01: Patricia Madrid by 5 points
PA-10: Chris Carney by 3 points
WI-08: Steve Kagen by 2 points

The Democrats will have how many House seats in the next Congress: 224

Governor's Races
Arkansas: Beebe by 6 points
Colorado: Bill Ritter by 9 points
Iowa: Chet Culver by 5 points
Maryland: Martin O'Malley by 4 points
Michigan: Jennifer Granholm* by 8 points
Minnesota: Mike Hatch by 3 points
Nevada: Jim Gibbons by 5 points
Wisconsin: Jim Doyle* by 8 points

 

And here is the final tally, with Double Down kicking everyone's asses.

S-H-G-T
Double 47-45-42-134
PDB 54-57-41-152
Headbutt 41-83-76-200
Zeke 69-56-78-203
Fenian 55-76-72-203
Fb-Bat 78-111-41-230
MGee 61-138-59-258
D3 88-118-54-260

In terms of sheerly picking winners:
Double Down 25/29 -- 86%
PopeDirkB 25/29 -- 86%
FlyHeadbutt 24/29 -- 82%
Zeke 23/29 -- 79%
FootballBat 22/29 75%
FenianBastard 22/29 75%
D3 20/29 68%
MichaelGee 18/29 62%

Gold didn't get his picks on time, but a quick look shows he went 24-for-29.

Congrats to Double Down and play again in 2008!

 

In the words of Darryl Hammond when he was doing his Bill Clinton impression:

"I ... am ... bullet proof."