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Monday, November 06, 2006

National Race by Race Analysis... U.S. House

Earlier, the State of Sunshine posted it's prediction that the Democrats will take control of the United States House of Representatives. To give you a guide to the elections, I have taken six national tracking sites and listed the top 79 races - 69 Republican seats and 10 Democratic seats. This is a lot of information to read, but I wanted you to see how these pundits saw the races (links to their sites are listed below). Here is a quick codes to the races: TU = Toss up (TUR = Toss Up, Tilting Republican; TUD = Toss Up, Tilting Democratic) LeR = Leaning Republican; LiR = Likely Republican; SaR = Safe Republican LeD = Leaning Democratic; LiD = Likely Democratic; SaD = Safe Democratic As you can, look at the colors of the boxes... yellow is used to denote toss up races, with shades of red for Republicans and shades of blue for Democrats. Finally, you may want to print this page and use it on election night. If not, you can tell how big the wave will be by looking at a few states: Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The more Republican seats you see switching to Democrat in these six states, the larger the wave will be; and vice-versa. (NOTE: For the real die-hards out there, CQ Politics has a very good analysis of previous elections when one party had large gains in the U.S. Congress - 1994, 1982, 1974, etc) So, I present to you a rundown of 79 seats in the U.S. Congress -- a chart you can only find on the State of Sunshine (which makes me wish I had done this weeks ago):
State DistRepDemWPSabCQPRothCookNYT
Ariz. 1Rep. Rick Renzi (i)Ellen Simon TUTUTURTUSaR
Ariz. 5Rep. J.D. Hayworth (i)Harry Mitchell TUTUTUDTULeR
Ariz. 8Randy GrafGabrielle GiffordsLeDLiDLeDLiDLeDSaD
Cal. 4Rep. John Doolittle (i)Charlie Brown LeRLeRTURLeRLeR
Cal. 11Rep. Richard Pombo (i)Jerry McNerney TULeRTUTUSaR
Cal. 50Rep. Brian Bilbray (i)Francine Busby LeRLeRLiRLeRSaR
Colo. 4Marilyn Musgrave (i)Angie PaccioneTUTULeRTURTULeR
Colo. 5Doug LambornJay Fawcett LeRLiRLiRLeRLeR
Colo. 6Rep. Tom Tancredo (i)Bill Winter LeRSaR SaR
Colo. 7Rick O'DonnellEd PerlmutterLeDLiDLeDLiDLeDLeD
Conn. 2Rep. Rob Simmons (i)Joe CourtneyTUTULeRTUTUTU
Conn. 4Rep. Chris Shays (i)Diane FarrellTUTUTUTUTUTU
Conn. 5Rep. Nancy L. Johnson (i)Chris MurphyTUTUTUTUDTUTU
Fla. 8Rep. Rick Keller (i)Charlie Stuart LiRLiR LiRSaR
Fla. 9Gus BilirakisPhyllis Busansky LiRLiR LiRSaR
Fla. 13Vern BuchananChristine JenningsTULeDTUTUDTUTU
Fla. 16Joe NegronTim MahoneyTUTULeDTUTUTU
Fla. 22Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (i)Ron KleinTUTUTUTUTUTU
Ga. 8Mac CollinsRep. Jim Marshall (i) LeDLeDTUDLeDLeD
Ga. 12Max BurnsRep. John Barrow (i)TUTULeDTUDTULeD
Id. 1Bill SaliLarry Grant TULeRTURTULeR
Iowa 1Mike WhalenBruce BraleyLeDLeDLeDLeDLeDLeD
Iowa 2Rep. Jim Leach (i)Dave Loebsack LeRLiR LiRSaR
Iowa 3Jeff LambertiRep. Leonard Boswell (i) LeDLeDLeDLeDLeD
Ill. 6Peter RoskamTammy DuckworthTUTUTUTUTUTU
Ill. 8Dave McSweeneyRep. Melissa Bean (i)LeDLeDLeDTUDLeDLeD
Ind. 2Rep. Chris Chocola (i)Joe DonnellyLeDLeDTULeDTULeD
Ind. 3Rep. Mark Souder (i)Tom Hayhurst LiRLiR LiRSaR
Ind. 7Eric DickersonRep. Julia Carson (i) LiDLiD LiDLeD
Ind. 8Rep. John Hostettler (i)Brad EllsworthLeDLiDLeDLiDTULeD
Ind. 9Rep. Mike Sodrel (i)Baron HillTUTUTUTUDTULeD
Kan. 2Rep. Jim Ryun (i)Nancy Boyda TULiRTUTULeR
Ky. 2Rep. Ron Lewis (i)Mike Weaver LeRLiRLiRLeRLeR
Ky. 3Rep. Anne Northup (i)John YarmuthTUTULeRTURTULeR
Ky. 4Rep. Geoff Davis (i)Ken LucasTUTULeRTURTULeR
Lou. 3Craig RomeroRep. Charlie Melancon (i) LiDLiD LeDSaD
Mich. 7Tim WalbergSharon Renier LiRLiR LiRSaR
Minn. 1Rep. Gil Gutknecht (i)Tim WalzTUTULeRTUTULeR
Minn. 2Rep. John Kline (i)Coleen Rowley LiRLiR SaR
Minn. 6Michele BachmannPatty WetterlingLeRTUTUTUTUTU
Neb. 3Adrian SmithScott Kleeb TULeRLiRLeRLeR
Nev. 2Dean HellerJill Derby LeRLeR LeRLeR
Nev. 3Rep. Jon Porter (i)Tessa Hafen TULeRTURTULeR
N.C. 8Rep. Robin Hayes (i)Larry Kissell LeRLiR LiRSaR
N.C. 11Rep. Charles H. Taylor (i)Heath ShulerLeDLeDTUTUDTULeD
N.H. 1Rep. Jeb Bradley (i)Carol Porter-Shea LiRLiR LiRSaR
N.H. 2Rep. Charles Bas (i)Paul Hodes TUTUDTUTU
N.J. 7Rep. Mike Ferguson (i)Linda Stender LeRLeRLeRLeRSaR
N.M. 1Rep. Heather Wilson (i)Patricia MadridTUTUTUTUTUTU
N.Y. 3Rep. Peter King (i)Dave Mejias LiRLiR LiRSaR
N.Y. 19Rep. Sue Kelly (i)John Hall TULeRLiRLeRLeR
N.Y. 20Rep. John Sweeney (i)Kirsten Gillibrand TUTUTUDTUTU
N.Y. 24Ray MeierMichael ArcuriLeDLeDTUTUDLeDLeD
N.Y. 25Rep. Jim Walsh (i)Dan Maffei TULiRTURLeRLeR
N.Y. 26Rep. Thomas Reynolds (i)Jack DavisLeRTULeDTUTULeR
N.Y. 29Rep. Randy Kuhl (i)Eric Massa LeRLeRTURLeRLeR
Ohio 1Rep. Steve Chabot (i)John CranleyTUTUTUTUTULeR
Ohio 2Rep. Jean Schmidt (i)Victoria Wulsin TUTUTUTULeR
Ohio 6Chuck BlasdelCharlie Wilson LiDLiD LiDSaD
Ohio 12Rep. Pat Tiberi (i)Bob Shamansky LiRLiRLeRLiRSaR
Ohio 15Rep. Deborah Pryce (i)Mary Jo KilroyTUTUTULeDTUTU
Ohio 18Joy PadgettZack SpaceLeDLeDLeDLeDLeDLeD
Penn. 4Rep. Melissa Hart (i)Jason Altmire TULeRTUTULeR
Penn. 6Rep. Jim Gerlach (i)Lois MurphyTULeDTUTUTUTU
Penn. 7Rep. Curt Weldon (i)Joe SestakLeDLeDLeDLeDTULeD
Penn. 8Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick (i)Patrick MurphyTUTUTUTUTULeR
Penn. 10Rep. Don Sherwood (i)Chris CarneyLeDLeDLeDLeDTULeD
Texas 17Van TaylorRep. Chet Edwards (i) LiDLiD LeDSaD
Texas 22Shelley Sekula-GibbsNick LampsonLeRTULeDTUTUTU
Texas 23Rep. Henry Bonilla (i)Ciro Rodriguez LeRLiRLeRLeRSaR
Vt ALMartha RainvillePeter Welch LiDLeDLiDLeDLeD
Va. 2Rep. Thelma D. Drake (i)Phil KellamTUTULeRTUTUTU
Va. 10Rep. Frank Wolf (i)Judy Feder LeRLiR LiRSaR
Wash. 5Rep. Cathy McMorris (i)Peter Goldmark LeRLiR LiRLeR
Wash. 8Rep. Dave Reichert (i)Darcy BurnerLeRTUTUTURLeRSaD
Wisc. 8John GardSteve KagenLeRTUTUTUTUTU
WV 1Chris WakimRep. Alan Mollohan (i) LiDLiD LiDSaD
WV 2Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (i)Mike Callaghan LiRLiR LiRSaR
Wy. ALRep. Barbara Cubin (i)Gary Trauner TUTULiRTUTU
WP = Washington Post
Sab = Larry Sabato
CQP = CQ Politics
Roth = Stu Rothenberg
Cook = Charlie Cook (PDF)
NYT = New York Times