- Oklahoma: Move along, nothing to see here. Vote counts concealed, as usual, winning margins comfortable, trust us. At least Oklahoma is reasonably cooperative with public records.
- Oregon: The governor's race is considered to be fully in play (Kitzhaber vs Dudley), anybody's game at this point. House 5th District also up for grabs (Schrader vs. Bruun). In Oregon everything is absentee, and in Oregon they start scanning the absentee ballots early, and in Oregon it is not illegal for the insiders to look at results. So its just us outsiders who don't know who is really winning.
- Pennsylvania: A real nail-biter for the US Senate, between Sestak and Toomey; Slight lean to the right between Onorato and Corbett in the gubernatorial race; races are wide open in the US House 8th (Murphy/Fitzpatrick), 10th (Carney/Marino), and 11th (Canjorski/Barletta).
- Rhode Island: The three-way governor's race is still up in the air (Chafee, Robitaille, Caprio). In Rhode Island's House District 1, the Democrat (Cicilline) is leading but the Republican (Loughlin) is gaining on him. (I consider Rhode Island to the land of the legislative oxymoron; at one point they tried to pass a bill to outlaw corruption -- that's right, a law to outlaw breaking the law -- but it failed. I'd watch the voter lists there; they use one of those Etch-a-Sketch type pads for DMV signatures which they then export electronically to an Internet voter registration system. Darn shaky system, unless you like stuffed lists and free-for-all voter posers in your absentee votes.)
- South Carolina: Toss-up in the 5th US House district between John Spratt and John Loughlin. And obviously we'll all be interested to see what happens in the crazy Al Green race for the US Senate.
- South Dakota At Large district for the US House, we've got a toss-up between Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Kristi Noem. And be nice. In South Dakota, they don't have to give you public records unless you ask real nice. It is one of the only states in the US with no Freedom of Information law written into its statutes.
- The Tennessee 4th District has a jump ball in the air, between Lincoln Davis and Scott DesJarlais. Also, in Memphis (Shelby County) there is a controversial (read: tamper inviting) "consolidation measure" that needs extra-close scrutiny.
- The close House races in Texas are in the 17th, 23rd and 27th. Lean to the left - the 27th, between Ortiz and Farenthold; Lean to the right - the 17th, between Edward and Flores; stand up sit down fight fight fight - the 23rd, between Rodriguez and Canseco which appears to be a dead heat.
- Virginia: We've got another dead heat in Virginia House Dist. 11, between Connolly and Fimian; close, but slight tip towards the Republican in the 2nd (Nye vs Rigell); with a counterbalancing tip towards the Democrat in the 9th (Boucher vs. Griffith).
- West Virginia: The West Virginia US Senate Race between Joe Manchin and John Raese is considered a toss-up. Also, West Virginia's 1st district (Oliverio/McKinley) is up for grabs right now.
- Wisconsin: They say Feingold (D) is in trouble against Johnson (R) right now in the US Senate race, as is Barrett (D) against Walker (R) for the governor's race. Wisconsin's 7th district (Lassa/Duffy) in wide open at this point.
- Wyoming: Sorry, I have no information. Republicans and antelope all the way I expect.
- Oregon: The governor's race is considered to be fully in play (Kitzhaber vs Dudley), anybody's game at this point. House 5th District also up for grabs (Schrader vs. Bruun). In Oregon everything is absentee, and in Oregon they start scanning the absentee ballots early, and in Oregon it is not illegal for the insiders to look at results. So its just us outsiders who don't know who is really winning.
- Pennsylvania: A real nail-biter for the US Senate, between Sestak and Toomey; Slight lean to the right between Onorato and Corbett in the gubernatorial race; races are wide open in the US House 8th (Murphy/Fitzpatrick), 10th (Carney/Marino), and 11th (Canjorski/Barletta).
- Rhode Island: The three-way governor's race is still up in the air (Chafee, Robitaille, Caprio). In Rhode Island's House District 1, the Democrat (Cicilline) is leading but the Republican (Loughlin) is gaining on him. (I consider Rhode Island to the land of the legislative oxymoron; at one point they tried to pass a bill to outlaw corruption -- that's right, a law to outlaw breaking the law -- but it failed. I'd watch the voter lists there; they use one of those Etch-a-Sketch type pads for DMV signatures which they then export electronically to an Internet voter registration system. Darn shaky system, unless you like stuffed lists and free-for-all voter posers in your absentee votes.)
- South Dakota At Large district for the US House, we've got a toss-up between Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Kristi Noem. And be nice. In South Dakota, they don't have to give you public records unless you ask real nice. It is one of the only states in the US with no Freedom of Information law written into its statutes.
- The Tennessee 4th District has a jump ball in the air, between Lincoln Davis and Scott DesJarlais. Also, in Memphis (Shelby County) there is a controversial (read: tamper inviting) "consolidation measure" that needs extra-close scrutiny.
- The close House races in Texas are in the 17th, 23rd and 27th. Lean to the left - the 27th, between Ortiz and Farenthold; Lean to the right - the 17th, between Edward and Flores; stand up sit down fight fight fight - the 23rd, between Rodriguez and Canseco which appears to be a dead heat.
- Virginia: We've got another dead heat in Virginia House Dist. 11, between Connolly and Fimian; close, but slight tip towards the Republican in the 2nd (Nye vs Rigell); with a counterbalancing tip towards the Democrat in the 9th (Boucher vs. Griffith).
- West Virginia: The West Virginia US Senate Race between Joe Manchin and John Raese is considered a toss-up. Also, West Virginia's 1st district (Oliverio/McKinley) is up for grabs right now.
- Wisconsin: They say Feingold (D) is in trouble against Johnson (R) right now in the US Senate race, as is Barrett (D) against Walker (R) for the governor's race. Wisconsin's 7th district (Lassa/Duffy) in wide open at this point.
- Wyoming: Sorry, I have no information. Republicans and antelope all the way I expect.
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