Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Some wrap-up notes:

  • Montana's been called for Tester, embiggening the odds that control of the Senate will be decided by a crotchety old state court judge in Richmond. Someone better keep an eye on Katherine Harris: she's got a lot of free time now, and this is what she's good at. (Note: The Hotline's Marc Ambinder is reporting that "senior Republican officials and White House aides" think Virginia is lost, and will pressure Allen to concede.)
  • Steny Hoyer wants the Majority Leader's office.
  • Denny Hastert doesn't want the Minority Leader's office. (But Boehner does.)
  • There was also something about Rumsfeld; not sure what it was....
  • From The Hotline's extensive collection of election scorecards comes a breakdown of the celebrity-guest effectiveness of the various White House '08 Democrats. In order of efficiency:
    • Obama, 80.4% (37 races won, 9 races lost)
    • Biden, 76.9% (20-6)
    • Edwards, 75.7% (44-14)
    • Kerry, 71.6% (58-23)
    • HRC, 70.0% (28-12)
    • Feingold, 68.8% (11-5)
    • Dodd, 68.0% (17-8)
    • Vilsack, 58.3% (14-10)
    • Richardson, 57.1% (24-18)
    • Bayh, 54.2% (13-11)
    • Clark, 42.9% (12-16)
    Partly, of course, those numbers are dictated by the races in which the bigwigs chose to become involved (in several of Wes Clark's races, for instance, he could have provided a fifteen-point bump without actually affecting the outcome of the election). My biggest surprise is Biden: who'd have guessed there were even 26 candidates who liked the man enough to ask him to campaign for them?

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