Going on gut feeling, if this had been a fraud-free election

[Greeby]

I reckon our total of House pickups would have been double :)

If you think thats nuts, trawl through the highlighted races we lost and see how close many of them were
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/house/

[Conker]

1. That's funny, because...

I just mentioned that in the "Okay, where are all those who said it would be stolen?" thread.

[Generic Other]

2. These all look strangely similar

In 2004, vote shaving produced similar results as I recall.


California:
Doolittle R
104,307 49% 100% of precincts reporting
Brown D
97,022

Musgrave R
104,876 46% 99% of precincts reporting
Paccione D
97,670

Connecticut:
Shays R
106,558 51% 100% of precincts reporting
Farrell D
99,913 48%

Ohio:
Chabot R
101,838 53% 100% of precincts reporting
Cranley D
90,963 47%

Pryce R
101,636 51% 100% of precincts reporting
Kilroy D
98,100 49%