At long last, I have finished making predictions, this time mixing my “gut feeling” predictions from earlier with the formula prediction methods I had used since 2006. I found the dearth of House polls very annoying, so many of my House predictions could be way off. We shall see in 12 or so hours.
Alabama: Bentley by 15.33%
Alaska: Parnell by 15.67%
Arizona: Brewer by 15%
Arkansas: Beebe by 25.67%
California: Brown by 14.33%
Colorado: Hickenlooper by 3.67%
Connecticut: Malloy by 5.67%
Florida: Sink by 1.67%
Georgia: Deal by 7.67%
Hawaii: Abercrombie by 5%
Idaho: Otter by 22%
Illinois: Brady by 4.67%
Iowa: Branstad by 10.5%
Kansas: Brownback by 27%
Maine: LePage by 11.33%
Maryland: O’Malley by 12.67%
Massachusetts: Patrick by 2.67%
Michigan: Snyder by 16.67%
Minnesota: Dayton by 1.33%
Nebraska: Heineman by 42%
Nevada: Sandoval by 15.67%
New Hampshire: Lynch by 8.33%
New Mexico: Martinez by 8.33%
New York: Cuomo by 22%
Ohio: Strickland by 1%
Oklahoma: Fallin by 18.5%
Oregon: Kitzhaber by 1.67%
Pennsylvania: Corbett by 9%
Rhode Island: Chafee by 8%
South Carolina: Haley by 8.33%
South Dakota: Daugaard by 13.67%
Tennessee: Haslam by 28%
Texas: Perry by 1%
Utah: Herbert by 25.33%
Vermont: Shumlin by 2%
Wisconsin: Walker by 8.67%
Wyoming: Mead by 36%
OVERALL: Republicans gain a net of 5 for the majority of governorships, 27-22-1
Alabama: Shelby by 28%
Alaska: McAdams by 0.67% (Miller in 2nd; Murkowski in 3rd)
Arizona: McCain by 23%
Arkansas: Boozman by 19.67%
California: Boxer by 6.67%
Colorado: Buck by 1%
Connecticut: Blumenthal by 8%
Delaware: Coons by 14%
Florida: Rubio by 16%
Georgia: Isakson by 25.67%
Hawaii: Inouye by 24.5%
Idaho: Crapo by 44%
Illinois: Kirk by 4.33%
Indiana: Coats by 10.33%
Iowa: Grassley by 31%
Kansas: Moran by 40%
Kentucky: Paul by 3.18%
Louisiana: Vitter by 5.87%
Maryland: Mikulski by 26.67%
Missouri: Robin Carnahan by 0.67%
Nevada: Reid by 0.67%
New Hampshire: Ayotte by 15%
New York A: Schumer by 28.67%
New York B: Gillibrand by 18.33%
North Carolina: Burr by 12.33%
North Dakota: Hoeven by 47%
Ohio: Portman by 9.83%
Oklahoma: Coburn by 40%
Oregon: Wyden by 15.33%
Pennsylvania: Toomey by 4.67%
South Carolina: DeMint by 42% (The Green candidate may get more votes than the Greene candidate.)
South Dakota: Thune by 70-90%
Utah: Lee by 25.33%
Vermont: Leahy by 35%
Washington: Murray by 1.88%
West Virginia: Manchin by 1.33%
Wisconsin: Johnson by 7.67%
OVERALL: Republicans gain a net of 5, but Democrats retain control 54-46
Light Blue = D+1; Light Red = R+1; Red = R+2; Medium-Dark Red = R+3; Dark Red = R+4; Very Dark Red = R+5
AL-02: Bright by 3.75%
AZ-01: Gosar by 4% (R pickup)
AZ-03: Hulburd by 1.17% (D pickup)
AZ-05: Schweikert by 0.67% (R pickup)
AZ-07: Grijalva by 4.08%
AZ-08: Giffords by 6.12%
AR-01: Crawford by 5.56% (R pickup)
AR-02: Griffin by 11% (R pickup)
CA-03: Lungren by 3.75%
CA-11: McNerney by 2.75%
CA-18: Cardoza by 10.75%
CA-20: Costa by 2.87%
CA-44: Calvert by 13.17%
CA-45: Bono Mack by 15%
CA-47: Sanchez by 8.25%
CO-03: Salazar by 1.25%
CO-04: Gardner by 3.58% (R pickup)
CT-04: Himes by 2.42%
CT-05: Murphy by 4.17%
DE-AL: Carney by 9.83% (D pickup)
FL-02: Southerland by 9.25% (R pickup)
FL-08: Webster by 3.25% (R pickup)
FL-22: Klein by 0.94%
FL-24: Adams by 6.25% (R pickup)
FL-25: Rivera by 3%
GA-02: Bishop by 2.67%
GA-08: Scott by 12.5% (R pickup)
HI-01: Hanabusa by 2.17% (D pickup)
ID-01: Minnick by 2.42%
IL-10: Seals by 7.6% (D pickup)
IL-11: Kinzinger by 5.13% (R pickup)
IL-14: Hultgren by 0.31% (R pickup)
IL-17: Schilling by 2.63% (R pickup)
IN-02: Donnelly by 4.38%
IN-08: Buschon by 8.75% (R pickup)
IN-09: Hill by 0.52%
IA-01: Braley by 10%
IA-02: Loebsack by 8.75%
IA-03: Boswell by 8.07%
KS-03: Yoder by 10% (R pickup)
KY-03: Yarmuth by 10.5%
KY-06: Chandler by 3.69%
LA-02: Richmond by 11.83% (D pickup)
LA-03: Landry by 12.25% (R pickup)
ME-01: Pingree by 12.42%
MD-01: Harris by 4.92% (R pickup)
MA-10: Keating by 2.63%
MI-01: Benishek by 2.71% (R pickup)
MI-07: Schauer by 0.44%
MI-09: Peters by 3.88%
MN-01: Walz by 10.42%
MN-08: Oberstar by 4.88%
MS-01: Childers by 0.88%
MS-04: Taylor by 2.69%
MO-03: Russ Carnahan by 5.63%
NV-03: Titus by 0.33%
NH-01: Guinta by 10.25% (R pickup)
NH-02: Bass by 0.08% (R pickup)
NJ-03: Runyan by 1.13% (R pickup)
NM-01: Barela by 0.63% (R pickup)
NM-02: Pearce by 4.83% (R pickup)
NY-01: Bishop by 7.56%
NY-13: McMahon by 7.5%
NY-19: Hayworth by 1.02% (R pickup)
NY-20: Gibson by 3.46% (R pickup)
NY-23: Owens by 0.88%
NY-24: Arcuri by 3.31%
NY-25: Maffei by 6.58%
NY-29: Zeller by 12.5% (R pickup)
NC-02: Etheridge by 2.5%
NC-07: McIntyre by 3.75%
NC-08: Kissell by 2.38%
NC-11: Shuler by 11.88%
ND-AL: Berg by 4.97% (R pickup)
OH-01: Chabot by 6.25% (R pickup)
OH-06: Wilson by 2.06%
OH-13: Sutton by 10%
OH-15: Stivers by 6.25% (R pickup)
OH-16: Renacci by 0.63% (R pickup)
OH-18: Gibbs by 1.88% (R pickup)
OR-05: Schrader by 2.75%
PA-03: Kelly by 6.25% (R pickup)
PA-04: Altmire by 12.58%
PA-07: Meehan by 3.83% (R pickup)
PA-08: Fitzpatrick by 4.53% (R pickup)
PA-10: Marino by 4.57% (R pickup)
PA-11: Barletta by 2.13% (R pickup)
PA-12: Critz by 5.38%
PA-15: Dent by 11.63%
RI-01: Cicilline by 4.94%
SC-05: Mulvaney by 4.75% (R pickup)
SD-AL: Noem by 0.31% (R pickup)
TN-04: DesJarlais by 1% (R pickup)
TN-06: Black by 12.5% (R pickup)
TN-08: Fincher by 9.5% (R pickup)
TX-17: Edwards by 1.72%
TX-23: Rodriguez by 2.15%
TX-27: Ortiz by 2.88%
VA-02: Rigell by 3.04% (R pickup)
VA-05: Hurt by 5.28% (R pickup)
VA-09: Boucher by 4.5%
WA-02: Larsen by 5.75%
WA-03: Herrera by 3.56% (R pickup)
WA-08: Reichert by 5.38%
WV-01: McKinley by 2.25% (R pickup)
WI-03: Kind by 8.75%
WI-07: Duffy by 7.21% (R pickup)
WI-08: Ribble by 5.46% (R pickup)
OVERALL: Republicans gain a net of 42 for control 220-215
i wanted to write “you are extremely optimistic”, but your House part isn’t so far from mine))). So, i really want this to happen by this evening, but still – remain slightly more pessimistic))))
Picks are virtually identical to mine, in fact your governor calls are identical, and the house one is just a few seats interchanged on both sides, you’ve got
42 and I have43. The only two seats I see here that I have strong disagreements with are OH-18 and NM-1, I had Space and Heinrich both winning by 4-5%.The Senate though, wow, Robin Carnahan and Scott McAdams! I would absolutely love to see that happen, Carnahan in particular as she’s by far the superior candidate in that race and the wave is killing her. Our numbers are similar there too, but you’ve got us losing PA and CO, while winning MO, NV, and AK, so we differ on those 5 races.
Only 8 more hours till we find out what’s what. I can say though that if Carnahan beats Blunt, that’ll be a champ-worthy call.