2006

Let us in

David Orr decrying drunks was just beautiful–not nearly as much fun as watching him explain to news reporters why it was a bad idea to let everyone in to watch the counting–like the fact that there are identified observers to do that already.

You know, they have better elections in Baghdad.

But it all becomes clear with this:

“It’s just absolute anarchy over here,” Peraica spokesman Dan Proft said. “We just saw a box coming in that was open . . . it’s just been chaos.”

Here’s a hint–when you are the source of chaos, you don’t get to complain about it. This isn’t Miami.

Prediction Results

I didn’t do so well at predicting individual House races missing quite a few, but I did predict there would be no Democratic losses and in the macro I said 30-35 seats. That looks to be on target as the final tallies are still coming in.

On the Senate, I did far better–missing two. Lamont and Pedersen.

Governors–I missed four–AK, ID, MN, and NV. AK and ID are obvious, MN damn close and NV–apparently the scandal wasn’t a big deal.

On Illlinois races:

My predictions Actual
Madigan 70-28-2 72-24-3
White 68-30-2 62-33-4
Hynes 67-31-2 63-31-4
Giannoulis 50-44-6 53-41-4
Blagojevich 48-40-10-2 49-40-10
Stroger 55-45 54-46
IL
SEN +3 D 34-24-1 It looks like +5. Amazing.
IL
House +3 D 68-50 It looks like +1

So sticking to Illinois and the macro situation I do better.

I’m still quite happy.