My my, a 31 seat pick-up for the Democratic Party (incl. VT). Unfortunately we missed picking up seats in some very close contests, 19 of which were missed by less than 10,000 votes in each District; in total:missed by 88,577 votes or an average of 4,662 per District. By contrast our candidates won 16 seats by less than 10,000 votes;: in total: captured by 82,480 votes or an average of 5,155 votes per District.
Some have asserted that if the DCCC had reacted to these races and provided necessary funding, we could have picked up more seats.
I’ll let ya’ll come to your own conclusions about that, because the purpose of this Diary is more from a Statistical/Tactical Perspective for 2008. Caveat: Races won by over 10,000 votes are not included in the Parameters of this Study, though any number of those could be in play in ’08, plus many other seats may be on the horizon.
On the same note, many of these races shown below may not be close for us in ’08, but are sure to get some attention. Caveat: FL-13 is still in play and subject to change.
More below the fold, Enjoy!
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