Here goes. Just beacuse.
Presidential Election:
Electoral Votes: Barack Obama 364, John McCain 174
Popular Vote: Obama +6.9
McCain Pickups: None
Obama Pickups: Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Ohio, Virgina, North Carolina and Florida
I’m a little unsure about North Carolina and Missouri but I’m going to call them for Barack. I think he’ll come up just short in Indiana, Montana and Georgia.
Gubernatorial Elections:
Republican Pickups: None
Democratic Pickups: Missouri
Not much to see. I think we’ll hold in NC and WA.
Senate Elections:
Republican Pickups: None
Democratic Pickups: Virgina, New Mexico, Colorado, New Hampshire, Alaska, Oregon, North Carolina, Minnesota
And I also predict the Georgia Senate race will go into a runoff and Jim Martin will win it but I’ll have final predictions closer to that election.
House Elections:
Republican Pickups: FL-16, TX-22, PA-11
Democratic Pickups: NY-13, AZ-01, VA-11, NY-25, AK-AL, CO-04, FL-24, IL-11, MI-09, MI-07, NY-29, OH-16, OH-15, NC-08, NM-01, NM-02, CA-04, CT-04, FL-08, FL-25, ID-01, IL-10, IN-03, LA-04, MD-01, MN-03, MN-06, MO-09, NJ-03, NJ-07, NV-03, OH-01, PA-03, WA-08, AL-02, AZ-03, OH-02, VA-02, VA-05.
Net Democratic Gain: +36
Maybe a little optimistic. But I think that’s going to be pretty close.
When I was your age, Democrats were getting our butts kicked up and down the ticket in the 1984 Reagan landslide. And if that hadn’t killed off any political optimism in my soul, watching Dukakis get crushed in 1988, the first year I was old enough to vote, would have.
But it’s good that you are growing up optimistic!
I am predicting about the same margin for Obama in the popular vote but only 7 Senate pickups and a net gain of 26 House seats for us.
I want to believe! Tom would be such an awesome congressman.
Hope Nye makes it too.
with a few changes in the House races.