2006 Election Forecasting and Results (House, Senate and Governors)

[Thorgrim]

Originally Posted by SoFlaJDM

the democrats didn't even do a good job pre-election... they could have walked away with this with an easy 5 more house seats and maybe another senate seat if they actually learned how to campaign

However, we did pull off an amazing win in the Senate

6 seats on that battleground?

We won 15 seats that were competitive races at one point

We lost 2 seats that were competitive at one point

15-2? That's pretty amazing

Also, we lost zero seats

In the House, yeah we lost a few we should have won, but we won a few that are simply amazing wins that will be huge down the road...NH01 and NH02? wow IA-02, NY-19 (who sang on the colbert report)

Those were not only longshots, but they are seats that are going to stay Democratic for a long long time (unless they redistrict or something)

Those weren't the only ones, 14 others aren't going to switch for a long time either (i wont list them again), thats 18 seats AT LEAST (still waiting on some results) that are wave-resistant, the only reason they had republicans were that people loved their incumbents even though the district became democratic

Guys like Joe Sestak, Netroots/Dailykos candidates, are in seats that have such an advantage...why the hell would they elect a Republican? They really have no reason

[SoFlaJDM]

yeah like i said, we did a great job, but we could have done so much better