Purely wishful thinking, but not laced with quite as much Romney kool-aid as most on here:
Romney 286, Bonzo 252. No prediction on popular vote since it’s irrelelvant anyway.
Of the swing states, Mitt gets:
Colorado
Florida
1 ev from Maine
Minnesota (sure...)
North Carolina
Ohio
Virginia
Bonzo gets:
Iowa
Michigan
New Hampshire
Nevada
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Wisconin
I’ll go out on a limb with the other happy-pill addicts and say we pick up a net 4 in the Senate. But I do not include the 2 swing state Senate races from states I’m giving to Mitt (OH,VA): Mandel has just been way too slimed by Brown to pull this one out unless a miracle occurs, same with Allen (by Kaine) in VA.
We may pick up a few seats in the House despite bloodbaths in California and Illinois and failure to capitalize on redistricting in our big states (Texas, Florida, Ohio).
Perhaps there wasn’t much we could do to gain more seats in those states, but what was even worse was those gutless little RINO pukes in the FL legislature taking great pains to try to do away with the most conservative R’s (West, Adams) in the delegation, while shoring up the district of a highly-damaged R who is going down in flames (Rivera) and making the new seats Rat-leaning (Grayson, Frankel).
I think West pulls it out, but Adams is already gone thanks to losing the primary to an old-bull semi-conservative.
Chris Plante has just predicted Romney will win, in 2008 he predicted a Obama win.