Official Post your 2006 Senate Election Prediction Maps

[Gabu]

Nevada?  Aren't we feeling generous?

I'm more looking at Texas, where the Democratic challenger is polling at around 25%.

[Gabu]

Lott won't be reelected.

Based on what exactly?  As of now he is a shoo-in for re-election, and nothing I know of has come up that would suggest otherwise.

Based on the fact that Harry doesn't want him to be re-elected, as far as I can tell.

[Gabu]

Maybe Trent Lott will turn out to be the one who's gay.

[Gabu]

It's way, way too early to be seriously posting a prediction, but I'm going to post one anyway just to have a base prediction available, which will likely endure heavy updating as we get closer to Election Day:



Republicans: 53 (-2)
Democrats: 46 (+2)
Independent: 1

R -> D: Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania
D -> R: New Jersey

Percentages represent percentage received by winning candidate.

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The last poll I saw from New Jersey put Kean ahead, but I really don't know what to think there.  I have a gut feeling that Kean has an ever-so-slight advantage, but my current prediction there should really not be taken as what I think will actually happen; I don't really have a clue there.

[Gabu]

Pennsylvania (much like Iowa in my Governor's Map) is purely optimism talking. I wish to be optimistic at leats once very month or so.

Pennsylvania, but not Montana?

That's rather selective optimism.

[Gabu]

Sorry to ask a question, probably asked many times before, but how do you generate these senate maps?  In any event, the GOP drops Pennsylvania and Montana, and picks up New Jersey, for a GOP loss of one seat.

It's quite simple, actually: go here, set the winner of each state and the percentage you want, then click "Show map link" at the bottom, and finally copy and paste the text you see into the post in which you want the map to appear.  To make a state grey, just set it to "toss-up" (the T column).

As a more advanced thing to do, if you want to set Vermont to be green (for "independent"), look at the thing you copied and pasted for something that looks like this:

VT=#;#;#

where "#" is some number.

To make it green, change the first number to "3", which is the number for "independent", so it then looks like this:

VT=3;#;#

[Gabu]

Thanks Senator for the assistance. I appreciate it.

Call me Gabu.  The Senator is a title from our fantasy election section, which, by the way, you may want to check out if you're so inclined.

[Gabu]

as for santorum, he is 1. smarter than casey, 2. a muuuuuuuuuuuuch better campaigner, 3. has a very dedicated group of supporters (look at phil).

And all that didn't mean jack sh!t.