Projected New Senate: 50 Democrats 50 Republicans

	Strong Dem (43)
	Weak Dem (4)
	Barely Dem (3)
	Exactly tied (0)
	Barely GOP (1)
	Weak GOP (2)
	Strong GOP (47)
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We have Senate polls in four states today. In Maryland, Rep. Ben Cardin (D) has increased his lead over Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R). He is now ahead 51% to 40%, including a 3 to 1 lead with African-American voters (Cardin is white; Steele is black).

In New Jersey, the race has tightened considerably. Rasmussen reports that state senator Tom Kean Jr.'s lead over incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has shrunk to essentially zero, 41% to 40%. This is the only Senate seat the Republicans might be able to pick up from a Democrat, and they will try mightily to do so.

In Minnesota and Florida, it's all over but the shouting. The Democrats hold massive leads in both states now. Amy Klobuchar (D) is 15 points ahead of Mark Kennedy (R) in Minnesota and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) is 23 percentage points ahead of Rep. Katherine Harris (R).

Over in the House, NV-02 is close, with Republican incumbent Dean Heller facing a stiff challenge from Jill Derby. Heller is in a statistical tie with Derby, with 45% favoring Heller and 42% favoring Derby.

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Antiwar activist Donna Edwards has conceded defeat in the Democratic primary in MD-04. She lost to incumbent Albert Wynn by about 2700 votes. Wynn is unopposed in the general election.

Congressional Quarterly has a nice color coded map of the U.S. showing all 435 congressional districts .

If you click on a gray state on the map, you now get the names of the senators and when they are due for reelection. Thanks to Rob McGahen for help here.

Diebold claims it fixed the bugs in the Maryland system Avi Rubin discovered and I have discussed at length recently. Only the state elections administrator, Linda Lamone, is not yet convinced . Me neither. And I never will be until there are paper trails for everything.

Projected New House*: 216 Democrats 218 Republicans 1 Tie

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

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