Talk Elections

For me its Rubio in Florida.

Michael Williams in Texas

Rob Simmons

Blanche Lincoln.

Too many to count.

Rob Simmons, Pat Toomey, Sue Lowden, Rob Portman, and Richard Burr for starters.

A good choice.

Actually, I really want JD to take out McVain.

     Peter Schiff

all very interesting answers.
We don't have to wait much longer, its finally an election year.

Schiff
Paul
Rubio
Bill White

Joe Sestak.

Schiff
Paul
Rubio
Kokesh

Russ Feingold!

Giannoulias, Sestak, Gillibrand and Cuomo.

Giannoulias, Fisher, Carnahan, Brown, and Cuomo

Simmons and Castle

Michael Williams
Charlie Crist

RT Rybak

Joe Sestak, Andrew Cuomo, Alexi Giannoulias, and Tom Perriello.

Dennis Kucinich.

Mark Kirk and/or Jim Ryan.

Rubio, Paul, and Campbell, unfortunately the latter won't happen. :(

Joe Sestak
NOT Tom Corbett or any PA Republican for Governor.  Redistricting!

Kelly Ayotte, can't stand Hodes

Joe Sestak winning would be great.

Hard narrowing it down, but if forced to choose, Mike Castle for Senate.

Here in Massachusetts, I'd like Baker/Tisei and Connaughton to win their respective races.

Mine should be pretty obvious. ;D

Toomey, Lowden, Ayotte, Williams, Rubio, Simmons, Kasich, Portman...etc.

This plus Lynch and Feingold

Feingold

Tim Cahill, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Sestak, Ted Strickland, Daniel Mongiardo

also Byron Dorgan

At this point, it is Rob Simmons. I just got back from meeting Linda McMahon, and not impressed at all.

Depending on how things going, I might be the candidate I want to see win in 2010.

Robin Carnahan. A mix of the relative winnability of the seat and my feelings about her opponent.

Senate

Illinois: Giannoulias. From what I can tell, he is more in line with Illinois's views than Kirk, and I find that to be an important variable in how good a candidate one is. That, and i have little idea what Kirk truly stands for.
Delaware: Castle. The Senate, and Delaware, need more moderates/centrists; plus, Castle's views are fairly in-line with Delaware's, from what I can tell at least.
North Dakota: Hoeven. With Dorgan's sudden decision to retire, the seat is likely to end up back in Republican hands anyway - and the governor is currently their best option.
Massachusetts: Brown. Again, both the state and the Senate need more moderates.
Missouri: Carnahan. Blunt deals too much in right-wing extremes for my liking.
Kentucky: Paul. He is truly unique amongst the current crowd of Republicans, being strikingly Libertarian, and I find that particularly appealing - and apparently, so does Kentucky. The Libertarian movement deserves to gain ground, and their best hope for a good start is in Paul.
Florida: Rubio. Crist reminds me too much of the George Bush style of Republican.
Nevada: Lowden, narrowly. She strikes me as the better candidate to dethrone Reid than Tarkanian - stronger, and with more experience.
Pennsylvania: Sestak, if he manages to pull through in the primaries somehow. If not, Toomey. Anyone but Specter, frankly.
Oklahoma: Henry, if he decides to run. A rather out-there hope, I know, but I cannot stand Coburn.

Governors

Texas: Hutchison. Perry is as radical as right-wing radicals come, almost to the extent of Tom Coburn, and not to mention the whole deal about being Bush's former lieutenant governor.
Wyoming: Freudenthal. As someone who actually lives in Wyoming, I can personally vouch for Freudenthal's success and efficiency as a governor, as can most of the rest of the state's population. Even considering that it would mean overturning term limits, I support the idea of our governor running for a third term for one reason - Freudenthal works for Wyoming, and that works for me.

Kirk in the Illinois race (forgot first name :-\)

Dick Blumenthal

And Blumenthal. :)

Mark.

What a coincidence. Soon as I clicked Reply, I saw an ad for Alexi Giannoulias. *sp* He's a candidate I'd like to see win, just because he's hot :)

I love how no one on here has said Roy Blunt :) and yes, of course, I want Robin Carnahan to win. It'll be a close race (as all races in Missouri are) but she'll win, probably the only pickup Democrats will have on Election Night which will be canceled out by GOP net gains in other states. But, who knows, anything can happen in 10 months.

Michele Bachmann

Robin Carnahan (D) running for Sen. Kit Bond's seat in Missouri.

Reid, Conway and Biden. Mostly because if they win it'll be an OK night nationally.

Oh, and PLEASE do not remove a competent grown up like Strickland for a supply side airhead like Kasich.

Just because someone is a Republican in Massachusetts does not mean they are a moderate.  Scott Brown is a pretty mainstream conservative who represents one of the most solidly Republican areas of the state.

Because 2010 is expected to be a wave election- favoring Republicans. The two Red State Democratic held seats- AR(Lincoln-D) and ND(OPEN- Dorgan-D)- will fall in the Republican column.  Looking at the competive US Senate Races.
I want Bennett(CO) to win re-election.
Bluementhal(CT) is favored to win the open 2010 US Senate Seat.
I want Beau Biden(DE) to defeat Mike Castle.
I want Kendrick Meek(FL) to win- but don't have a problem with Crist.
I want Alexi Giannoulias(IL) to defeat Mark Kirk.
I want Robin Carnahan(MO) to defeat Roy Blunt.
I want Paul Hodes (NH) to win.
I want Lee Fisher(OH) to defeat Bob Portman (OH).
I expect Specter(PA) and Reid(NV) to get re-elected.

I checked his website, myself, and was only going by what I read there. My point is that he seems more moderate than Coakley, who I can only assume will have Kennedy's views without having Kennedy's importance - and I say 'assume' because I looked at her site as well and found her Issues page suspiciously vague.

Why not just say you want all of the dems to win?

so many people say they're "independent" but it seems you're one of the few who really are (thats a compliment :))

Tidwell Colorado, Simmons Connecticut, Cox Michigan

Melancon winning might give me the greatest pleasure completely due to the vileness of his opponent.

Peter Schiff
Rand Paul
Dennis Kucinich
Debra Medina

Re-election for Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida #08)

Whoever winds up as Harry Reid's opponent, so that maybe the Democrats can find a Senate majority leader with a spine.

I want all Republicans to win, but if I had to pick one I'd go with Pat Toomey. Also, I really want to see Harry Reid packing his bags so I'll keep a close eye on that one too.

Ted Strickland, Russ Feingold, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, and Gerald Connally.

I want all the Dems to win but in the tossup races these are my picks to that I want to win:

Brad Ellsworth, Carnahan, Feingold and Giannoulias
Strickland, Barrett, and Hickenlooper.

I'd like to see Bill White become governor- it's the first race in a very long time where a Texas Democrat has a chance statewide. It'd be nice to see a shift to the center, instead of staying hard right.

Peter Schiff
Adam Kokesh
John Hostettler
Chuck Devore
Debra Medina
Rand Paul

1.Rubio by far so we have a young, good looking Latino to run for president in 2016 or greater should Obama be a 2 termer.

2. Anyone running against Alan Grayson, preferrably another republican

3. Dean Martin for AZ Governor

4. Jesse Kelly against Gabrielle Giffords

I'm really hopeful that Andrew Cuomo will win this year's New York Governor's race.

Me too. He should be a lock assuming he actually runs.

Welcome to the forum!

Sharon Angle in Nevada and Christine O'Donell in Deleware

Giannoulias and Bennet

John Dennis!

Snyder, of course.

Kendrick Meek, but among those with a realistic shot Harry Reid or Jerry Brown.

Feingold.

Everyone in my signature.

Marco Rubio

Joe Miller in Alaska, but that's more wanting Murkowski to lose than any love for him.

Aside from that, probably Christine O'Donnell, just to see who will actually follow up on their "If she wins, i'll" posts from a while ago.

Gotta add Tom Tancredo for me.

Whitman, Fiorina, Toomey, and Rubio.

probably jack conway... and yes, harry reid

Democrat: Jerry Brown (gasp), I like his style and I have grown to really not like Whitman.
Republican: Stephen Bailey (Republican candidate in my home district of CO-02). He won't win, but a libertarian Republican is not something you see enough. A more realistic (though not much more so) one is Joe DioGuardi.

HP