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Let's bet: Soliciting your Election Day predictions
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Let's bet: Soliciting your Election Day predictions
Because, why the hell not.
Of course, we're not really going to bet, because that would be illegal. But, I am going to give you my predictions as to Tuesday's elections, and in the comments, you tell me how wrong I am and what's really gonna happen, and then on Wednesday, we'll compare notes. Cool?
To help you out, here are a few good polling and analysis sites, so we're all cribbing off the same cheat sheets:
Pollster.com (now owned by Huffington Post)
All right, let's do this (and bear in mind, this is what I think will happen, not what I want to happen):
House of Representatives: 239-196, Republicans control. This would mean a pickup of of 59 seats, a massive GOP win; more so than most of the pollsters forecast. Locally, all of the Republicans in tight races — Gerlach, Meehan, Fitzpatrick — pull it out; Meehan, Gerlach and Fitzgerald with 4-to-6 point wins (think 52/53-48/47). Over in the Jerz, I gotta go with Adler over Runyan, but barely. John Boehner will be the speaker of the House, and by the time the next presidential election rolls around, he'll be a little less popular than Gingrinch was in 1999.
U.S. Senate: 52-48, Democrats control. This would mean a net pickup of 7 Republican seats: Arkansas, North Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada, Colorado, Indiana, and, yes, Pennsylvania. Much as I loath to say it, I have to go with Toomey, and probably larger than the polling indicates: 55-45. Joe Manchin will hold on, albeit barely, in West Virginia; and Chris Coons will embarrass Christine O'Donnell, 58-42. Cali, Washington, Oregon and Connecticut will remain blue, and Chuck Schumer of New York will be your next majority leader.
Oh, and Corbett will be our next gov. 58-42.
The comments are all yours. Fire away.
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