How many senate and house seats did we pick up???

[KelleyKramer]

I just got home from a party, everything was about the presidential race.

Didnt see anything about head counts of the house and senate races...

How many seats did we pick up ?????

[tekisui]

1. Senate:

We took NH, NC, OR, NM, CO,

We'll see about MN, AK, and GA.

55 so far, without traitor joe. 58 best case.

[KelleyKramer]

2. CBS just said 16 in the house ...

Its got to be more than that.

If anybody has links to check, please do tell!!

[hfojvt]

4. that's the 56-40 that CNN has

with perhaps 4 to still be decided (Minnesota, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon - I think) We need all 4 of those plus Liebersh*t to have a fillibuster-proof majority.

edit: oops, I confused House and Senate :blush: but we lost at least one (albeit a blue-dog) in the House in my own district :argh:

[hfojvt]

3. it's still up in the air

and CNN and such give varying totals. Two we lost locally is that I now have a Republican Congresswoman in Lynn fu$%ing Jenkins and former KC Mayor Kay Barnes lost to Republican incumbent Sam Graves in Missouri.

Also, I think results are still coming in from the West Coast and Alaska. The Franken race in Minnesota is still undecided and so is Stevens in Alaksa. CNN keeps showing 56-40 for the Senate, but nothing for the House.

Dole got beat in NC, Saxby-Chambliss (R-a$$wipe) held on in Georgia and so did Mitch McConnell (Senate fillibuster leader) and Collins (R-semi moderate) in Maine. Stevens (R-convicted felon) is still being tabulated in Alaska.

[KelleyKramer]

5. Thanks for the update ...

Stevens will lose in AK

MN seems like something to watch

but I'm real curious to know about all the house races

[hfojvt]

6. the AP map seems fairly up-to-date

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/election_night_2008/election_map_premium/index.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS

although I did not check the House totals just now. I also find it kinda clumsy to navigate with my slow internet connection.