US House and Senate Predictions

Senate:  Dems pick up a minimum of 8 seats.  I’m betting on 10 only because toss ups tend to flip one way in the end (see Charlie Cook’s most recent analysis on this).  7 seems solid to me and then one more is likely to fall given past history.  McConnell probably hangs on.  Bill O’Reilly’s head explodes though and goes on a rampage.

House:  This is hard to say because of the individual dynamics so I’ll say a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 seats with more of a likelihood of being around 23 or so.  Democrats will lose a seat unlike last cycle with at least Mahoney going down in Florida and Lampson in Texas.  Bachman loses, Murtha survives.  Madia in Minnesota loses.  Judy Baker in MO-9 pulls out a squeaker and wins.  Chris Shays loses giving Democrats complete dominance in New England in the House.

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