How many Senate seats will we gain?

[spooky3]

Taking into account everything (including GOTV efforts, attempts to suppress voting by Rethugs, etc.), how many more seats will we have in the Senate after the election? Please give me your best estimate of what you believe WILL happen, rather than what you would LIKE to see happen.

Also, I am talking about the net gain (total number of Dem Senate wins tomorrow - number of seats that Dems already held that are being contested this cycle).

Thanks for your votes! A robot will not call you.

[joemurphy]

1. Sorry, but respectfully, I'm sick of polls. n/t

[David Zephyr]

2. Six.

Six

[EdwardM]

7. I'll Try a Prediction

Whitehouse v Chafee Chafee Wins

McCaskill V Talent - McCaskill Wins

Webb V Allen - Webb Wins

Ford V Corker - Corker Wins

Cardin v Steele - Cardin Wins

Lamont V Lieberman - Lieberman Wins

Menendez v Kean - Menendez wins

Tester v Burns -Tester Wins


Overall I Predict it will be 51 - 49 if Lieberman does not turncoat. So that would be 6 pickups. Unfortunatly, this is going to give Lieberman a lot of power.

[EdwardM]

12. Wow, I got everyseat right.

If I was a gambling man, I could have made a ton of money.

[ccpup]

13. Lieberman does the Turncoat bit,

he'll find himself without Seniority, stuck way in the back, no Committee Appointments (making it harder for Hadassah to make any Lobbyist Money) and, worse, the whole State of CT angry as hell that he lied to them. Can anyone say rotten eggs thrown at his Office and car as he drives by? Or resigning in defeat 'cause he can't hold back the tsunami of vitriolic anger flooding over him?

He knows the risks and I don't think he'll play with fire. Joe likes his cushy seat too much. (I think there's a Foley joke in there somewhere. A tired one, admittedly, but still ... )

[NJ Democrats]

3. Six Gains

But Loose/Hold CT.

[TheFarseer]

4. the pessimist in me says

we will lose one of these three: MO, VA, MT for a net gain of 5.

[usregimechange]

8. I think we will win those 3. We are working our butts off in MO!

[TheFarseer]

10. I hope so

I'm hearing good things about VA, but not much good news from MT lately - Tester still ahead but trending badly. MO will be 49%-49%, I just about guarantee it.

[William769]

5. 6.

[usregimechange]

6. I think 7 is still possible but 6 most likely, here is why I think 7 is

Early voting in TN! 1/3rd of TN voters have already voted in a time where Ford was polling better. With a good GOTV, we can win 7.

[JeffSanchez]

9. Six

The noob in my is praying for six.

[MichDem10]

11. Pick up four...

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana, Rhode Island.

My pessimistic side believes that in some of the "red" states it is more important for people to vote for party instead of country .