Still Too Soon To Call?
I've been waiting all week to make a final tally of my predictions, but there are still a handful of House races where there has yet to be a call because of outstanding provisional ballots. I'd be surprised if the outcome is changed in any of the remaining races at this point, but I continue to wait patiently just in case.
For the past 10 days, almost all of my free time has gone to the digestion of election returns at the micro-level (by county, by city). I expect this cycle to continue for the next three or four weeks. As I've been saying for years now, election night is only the beginning of the fun for true political junkies.
For the past 10 days, almost all of my free time has gone to the digestion of election returns at the micro-level (by county, by city). I expect this cycle to continue for the next three or four weeks. As I've been saying for years now, election night is only the beginning of the fun for true political junkies.
posted by Mark at 9:11 PM
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With John Barrow confirmed to have held on to GA-12, we can now safely say that every Democratic-held seat stayed in Democratic hands this election cycle....something very worthy of acclaim.
CNN's website offers the most thorough election returns that I've seen...and if their 2004 performance is any indication, they will adjust their numbers to reflect the official vote count once those numbers are confirmed before year's end.
It'll be a few months before I'm ready to analyze 2008 with any vigor, either at the localized or Presidential level. Even I take a few months off from intense politiciking following elections.
Sara, thanks for the tips. I'll get to them in the next couple of days. Sorry the blog has been so quiet in the past couple of weeks but I've been obsessively collecting as much in the way of election data as possible. I'll start making more regular posts here within the week.
And to clarify my last post, I won't be abandoning politics in the months ahead, but I probably won't be obsessing about 2008 for a few more months. I'm glad there are plenty of people able to go full speed ahead into the next election cycle immediately after one election ends. I prefer to sit back and crunch one set of election numbers, and dabble into other priorities, in the months following one election before getting too geared up for the next one. That's not to say I won't be speculating at all about 2008 in the next few months, but I also won't be like Chris Matthews hammering on election news two years away until it gets a little closer to the time the bell tolls.
Anyway, I promise to be back with some new material in the next few days. I'll entertain any suggestions for blogs worthy of blogrolling. I definitely like to get the word around about quality political blogs.
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