As For The House

Here's the big list. I invested a lot in some of these races, so I'm a little disappointed even though I should probably not be greedy.

I'm really excited about Alan Grayson (FL-08), Jim Himes (CT-04), Walt Minnick (ID-01, just for the fact that Democrats won a House race in IDAHO), Dan Maffei (NY-25) and Eric Massa (NY-29). Darcy Burner (WA-08), Charlie Brown (CA-04) and Tom Perriello (VA-05) are in very tight races right now that won't be called for a while. I'm really pulling for them.

Right now it appears we have picked up a net of 21 seats, and that could grow. That's not half bad, although I wanted more. I called 28. (right now, my 52.4% pick for Obama looks pretty good; he's at 52.3%.)

Overall, lots of candidates who repeated their efforts from 2006 did not perform as well, which is interesting. Was it the focus of the Obama campaign taking away from Congressional organizing? The lack of coattails? I don't know. It's something we're going to have to take a long look at.

Overall, however, we are going to have a minimum of 257 seats in the House of Representatives, more than enough to pass a pretty bold agenda.