Last month, I predicted that Republicans would wind up with 242 seats in the House and 48 in the Senate.
With the final race having just been decided, it is now official that my House prediction was exactly right. And my Senate prediction was off by only one seat.
But when I make mistakes, they tend to be big. My one mistake for this year was a prediction that Harry Reid would lose. And since that may have been the top race in the country, I have some egg on my face.
This is sort of like my 2004 election predictions. I correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states, but the one state I got wrong was Ohio. And since that was the deciding state, my prediction of a Kerry presidency obviously was wrong.
Since I don’t believe in polls or predictions, I am happy to wait until November 6th or 7th to know who our next President will be. Having said that, I have already voted Romney/Ryan for real change.
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