Sabato (of The Crystal Ball) says Obama will "likely" win 290 Electoral College votes and that the Dems will hold the Senate and the 'Pubs will hold the house.
With a slight, unexpected lift provided by Hurricane Sandy, Mother Nature’s October surprise, President Barack Obama appears poised to win his second term tomorrow. Our final Electoral College projection has the president winning the key swing states of Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin and topping Mitt Romney, with 290 electoral votes.
Go below for his numbers and the map.
About Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Crystal Ball has been a leader in accurately predicting elections since its inception. In 2004, the Crystal Ball notched a 99 percent accuracy rate in predicting all races for House, Senate, Governor and each state’s Electoral College outcome. In 2006 the Pew Research Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Project for Excellence in Journalism recognized the Crystal Ball as the leader in the field of political predictors, noting that the site “came closer than any other of the top ten potential predictors this cycle.”
2008 was yet another banner year, as the Crystal Ball came the closest of any national prognosticator in predicting the results of the presidential race, while achieving a 100 percent accuracy rating by correctly predicting the result of every single gubernatorial and Senate race across the country. In 2010, the Crystal Ball once again led the field, as the first to forecast a solid Republican takeover of the House. The Crystal Ball was also the only prognosticator to offer state legislative predictions, correctly predicting months in advance that Republicans would pick up 500+ state legislators and a dozen or more state legislative chambers.
Totally off topic, but my teenage son just relayed a joke his English teacher told the class today. Considering the joke's highly partisan nature, I'm surprised she said it in the classroom. Anyway, I couldn't help but laugh. I just hope she doesn't get into trouble for it.
Here it is:
An old man dies and enters St. Peter's gate. Inside he finds a room filled with clocks. The first clock has Mother Teresa's picture beneath it, but the clock appears to be broken.
"Why doesn't her clock move?" the man asked.
"Oh, it's not broken," St. Peter responded. "These clocks only move when people lie. And the good Mother never lied."
Next to Mother Teresa's clock was Abraham Lincoln's. The man observed that it had only moved twice. St. Peter confirmed Lincoln had only lied two times. Next to that clock were clocks of all the presidents and presidential candidates who had ever run for office since the country began.
After observing the first to the last, the old man scratched his head and frowned, noticing one missing. "Where is Mitt Romney's clock?"
"Oh, it's in there." St. Peter turned and gestured toward a huge bejeweled golden door that had a large, gleaming pearl for a door knob. "That's Jesus' office. He uses it as a fan."