Not that it matters...Democrats will win 238 seats and the Senate will end up 50-50 (I count the two independents on the Dem side--Bernie Sanders and, yes, Joe Lieberman). I was probably more generous on the House side as I looked at individual races--though maybe it will turn out much better.
On the House side, I was not optimistic that the Dems would win all the close races in New York (the 19th just seems to me to be too Republican) or sweep the close Connecticut races (I think that only Chris Shays loses his race in the 4th). But, on the other hand, I picked the Dems to win 4 out of the 5 closely contested races in Pennsylvania (6th, 7th, 8th and 10th), Tim Walz to defeat incumbent Gil Gutknecht in the 1st CD in Minnesota (partly because of a strong Senate race win by Amy Klobuchar) and I'm hoping that Angie Paccione knocks off that nutcase Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado's 4th.
On the Senate side, the happiest moment of the evening for me will be watching Rick Santorum give his concession speech; I can't think of a better example of an angry, inflexible, intolerant person in public office (well, there are probably plenty). Good riddance. I hope that the Dems get that one extra seat for a majority--it's interesting how little people talked about the Supreme Court and the possible retirement of John Paul Stevens. That is a big deal. I worry about Montana--are Republicans going to come out in big numbers to re-elect that corrupt buffoon Conrad Burns? And the ray of light i my picks is perhaps that I was too negative on Virgina--Jim Webb was surging but I kept thinking that the racist Allen might pull it out because of strong Republican rural voters so he was my pick...hope I'm wrong on that one.
But, remember, as I've written here , here and here: the battle will just begin with a Democratic House and possible a Democratic Senate. This is not the progressive party we envision or need.
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