Projected New Senate: 50 Democrats 49 Republicans 1 tie

	Strong Dem (46)
	Weak Dem (2)
	Barely Dem (1)
	Exactly tied (2)
	Barely GOP (1)
	Weak GOP (1)
	Strong GOP (47)
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Nov. 08

Pickups: Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island

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News from the Votemaster

Here are the preliminary results. More later.

CNN has a good election page

Senate

The Democrats took the House although several races are still undecided. In the Senate, control depends on who wins Virginia. Democrat Jim Webb currently leads by 7000 votes, but there will be a recount. This race could fester for weeks in the courts. Unlike Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, the Democrats control the Virginia electoral machinery.

In case you just remembered that election law was your favorite subject in high school, you might want to check out Election Law Blog, which is written by a Los Angeles law professor, Rick Hasen, who specializes in election law. Looking at his stats, over the past month, he has been getting about 500 visitors a day on weekdays. I suspect his traffic is going to pick up a bit in the coming weeks.

For the record, electoral-vote.com had 520,000 visits yesterday. All the servers held up well. Three cheers for both HostRocket.com, my primary hosting company, and PlanetLab, which handled about 40% of the load. If your company needs a solid Web hosting company with good tech suport, I can recommend HostRocket.com very highly. Special thanks go to Prof. Gun Sirer of Cornell for help with PlanetLab.

State	Democrat	Republican	Dem	GOP	Ind	Ahead	Source
Arizona	Jim Pederson	Jon Kyl*	44	53		GOP	Election: 98% counted
California	Dianne Feinstein*	Dick Mountjoy	59	36		Dem	Election: 75% counted
Conn.	Ned Lamont	Alan Schlesinger	40	10	50	IND	Election: 95% counted
Delaware	Tom Carper*	Jan Ting	70	29		Dem	Election: 10% counted
Florida	Bill Nelson*	Katherine Harris	60	38		Dem	Election: 99% counted
Hawaii	Daniel Akaka*	(Primary 9/23)	63	35		Dem	Election: 76% counted
Indiana	(unopposed)	Dick Lugar*	0	87		GOP	Election: 99% counted
Maine	Jean Bright	Olympia Snowe*	21	73		GOP	Election: 81% counted
Maryland	Ben Cardin	Michael Steele	54	44		Dem	Election: 97% counted
Mass.	Ted Kennedy*	Ken Chase	69	31		Dem	Election: 99% counted
Michigan	Debbie Stabenow*	Mike Bouchard	57	41		Dem	Election: 94% counted
Minnesota	Amy Klobuchar	Mark Kennedy	58	38		Dem	Election: 97% counted
Mississippi	Erik Fleming	Trent Lott*	35	64		GOP	Election: 99% counted
Missouri	Claire McCaskill	Jim Talent*	50	47		Dem	Election: 98% counted
Montana	Jon Tester	Conrad Burns*	50	49		Dem	Election: 80% counted
Nebraska	Ben Nelson*	Pete Ricketts	64	36		Dem	Election: 90% counted
Nevada	Jack Carter	John Ensign*	41	55		GOP	Election: 98% counted
New Jersey	Bob Menendez*	Tom Kean, Jr.	53	45		Dem	Election: 99% counted
New Mexico	Jeff Bingaman*	Allen McCullogh	70	30		Dem	Election: 95% counted
New York	Hillary Clinton*	John Spencer	67	31		Dem	Election: 99% counted
North Dakota	Kent Conrad*	Dwight Grotberg	69	29		Dem	Election: 100% counted
Ohio	Sherrod Brown	Mike DeWine*	56	44		Dem	Election: 99% counted
Pennsylvania	Bob Casey	Rick Santorum*	59	41		Dem	Election: 99% counted
Rhode Island	Sheldon Whitehouse	Lincoln Chafee*	53	47		Dem	Election: 100% counted
Tennessee	Harold Ford	Bob Corker	48	51		GOP	Election: 99% counted
Texas	Barbara Radnofsky	Kay Hutchison*	36	62		GOP	Election: 96% counted
Utah	Pete Ashdown	Orrin Hatch*	31	62		GOP	Election: 99% counted
Vermont	Bernie Sanders	Rich Tarrant	0	32	65	IND	Election: 92% counted
Virginia	Jim Webb	George Allen*	49	49		Tie	Election: 99% counted
Washington	Maria Cantwell*	Mike McGavick	57	40		Dem	Election: 33% counted
West Virginia	Robert Byrd*	John Raese	64	34		Dem	Election: 99% counted
Wisconsin	Herb Kohl*	Robert Lorge	67	30		Dem	Election: 97% counted
Wyoming	Dale Groutage	Craig Thomas*	30	70		GOP	Election: 99% counted

House

The Democrats took the House, picking up around 27 seats, but races in at least CT-02 , GA-08, NC-08 , NM-01 , NY-19, PA-06 , PA-08 , and WY-AL are too close to call. Below are the results of the 50 Hot House races as of 4 am EST. The full list is here. More later.

CD	Democrat	Republican	Dem	GOP	I	Ahead	Source
AZ-01	Ellen Simon	Rick Renzi*	43	52		GOP	Election: 89% counted
AZ-05	Harry Mitchell	J.D. Hayworth*	51	46		Dem	Election: 98% counted
AZ-08	Gabrielle Giffords	Randy Graf	54	42		Dem	Election: 97% counted
CA-11	Jerry McNerney	Richard Pombo*	52	48		Dem	Election: 35% counted
CO-07	Ed Perlmutter	Rick O'Donnell	55	42		Dem	Election: 88% counted
CT-02	Joe Courtney	Robert Simmons*	50	50		Tie	Election: 97% counted
CT-04	Diane Farrell	Christopher Shays*	48	51		GOP	Election: 93% counted
CT-05	Chris Murphy	Nancy Johnson*	56	44		Dem	Election: 97% counted
FL-13	Christine Jennings	Vern Buchanan	49	50		GOP	Election: 99% counted
FL-16	Tim Mahoney	Joe Negron	49	48		Dem	Election: 99% counted
FL-22	Ron Klein	Clay Shaw*	51	47		Dem	Election: 99% counted
GA-12	John Barrow*	Max Burns	51	47		Dem	Election: 96% counted
IA-01	Bruce Braley	Mike Whalen	55	43		Dem	Election: 100% counted
IA-02	Dave Loebsack	Jim Leach*	51	49		Dem	Election: 100% counted
IA-03	Leonard Boswell*	Jeff Lamberti	52	46		Dem	Election: 100% counted
IL-06	Tammy Duckworth	Peter Roskam	48	52		GOP	Election: 82% counted
IL-08	Melissa Bean*	Dave McSweeney	50	45		Dem	Election: 82% counted
IN-02	Joe Donnelly	Chris Chocola*	54	46		Dem	Election: 100% counted
IN-08	Brad Ellsworth	John Hostettler*	61	39		Dem	Election: 100% counted
IN-09	Baron Hill	Mike Sodrel*	49	46		Dem	Election: 99% counted
KY-03	John Yarmuth	Anne Northup*	51	48		Dem	Election: 100% counted
KY-04	Ken Lucas	Geoff Davis*	43	52		GOP	Election: 95% counted
LA-03	Charlie Melancon*	Craig Romero	55	40		Dem	Election: 100% counted
MN-01	Tim Walz	Gil Gutknecht*	53	47		Dem	Election: 98% counted
MN-06	Patty Wetterling	Michele Bachmann	42	50		GOP	Election: 95% counted
NC-08	Larry Kissell	Robin Hayes*	50	50		Tie	Election: 100% counted
NC-11	Heath Shuler	Charles Taylor*	54	46		Dem	Election: 100% counted
NH-02	Paul Hodes	Charlie Bass*	53	45		Dem	Election: 97% counted
NJ-07	Linda Stender	Mike Ferguson*	48	49		GOP	Election: 99% counted
NM-01	Patricia Madrid	Heather Wilson*	50	50		Tie	Election: 99% counted
NY-03	Dave Mejias	Peter King*	44	56		GOP	Election: 100% counted
NY-20	Kirsten Gillibrand	John Sweeney*	53	47		Dem	Election: 98% counted
NY-24	Michael Arcuri	Ray Meier	54	45		Dem	Election: 97% counted
NY-26	Jack Davis	Tom Reynolds*	48	52		GOP	Election: 99% counted
OH-01	John Cranley	Steve Chabot*	47	53		GOP	Election: 99% counted
OH-02	Victoria Wulsin	Jean Schmidt*	49	51		GOP	Election: 100% counted
OH-06	Charlie Wilson	Chuck Blasdel	61	39		Dem	Election: 93% counted
OH-15	Mary Jo Kilroy	Deborah Pryce*	49	51		GOP	Election: 99% counted
OH-18	Zack Space	Joy Padgett	62	38		Dem	Election: 96% counted
PA-06	Lois Murphy	Jim Gerlach*	50	50		Tie	Election: 78% counted
PA-07	Joseph Sestak	Curt Weldon*	57	43		Dem	Election: 93% counted
PA-08	Patrick Murphy	Mike Fitzpatrick*	50	50		Tie	Election: 100% counted
PA-10	Christopher Carney	Don Sherwood*	53	47		Dem	Election: 99% counted
TX-17	Chet Edwards*	Van Taylor	58	40		Dem	Election: 99% counted
TX-22	Nick Lampson	Shelley Gibbs	52	42		Dem	Election: 100% counted
TX-23	Ciro Rodriguez	Henry Bonilla*	21	48		GOP	Election: 90% counted
VA-02	Phil Kellam	Thelma Drake*	49	51		GOP	Election: 100% counted
WA-08	Darcy Burner	Dave Reichert*	48	52		GOP	Election: 19% counted
WI-08	Steve Kagen	John Gard	51	49		Dem	Election: 94% counted
WV-01	Alan Mollohan*	Chris Wakim	64	36		Dem	Election: 100% counted

Projected New House*: 231 Democrats 197 Republicans 7 Ties

* Where no independent polls exist, the 2004 election results have been used. See complete House polls.

Dem pickups: AZ-03 AZ-05 AZ-08 CA-11 CO-07 CT-05 FL-16 FL-22 IA-01 IA-02 IN-02 IN-08 IN-09 KS-02 KY-03 LA-01 MN-01 NC-11 NH-01 NH-02 NY-20 NY-24 OH-18 PA-04 PA-07 PA-10 PA-16 TX-22 WI-08

GOP pickups:

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