Thursday, July 24, 2008

House Forecast - July 24

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DCW House Forecast: 242.7 (+6.7) [was 242.3 (+6.3)]. SSP had the largest set of changes since the last House Forecast, moving 10 seats in the Democratic direction, (and 1 seat in the Republican direction). The other highlight was the addition of a seat to the chart for the first time - FL-25, which SSP moved from R to RL. The addition of Republican seats and the removal of Democratic seats will further shift the playing field into red territory, and increase the potential for larger Democratic gains. (Six Democratic seats are barely hanging on to the chart).

Be sure to also check out our Presidential Forecast and Senate Forecast.

The DCW House Forecast is an average of the projections of Democratic seats in the 2009 House.

We only list those seats which at least one our sources shows to be Leaning or Tossup. Seats which are classified as Likely, Solid or Strong by all sources are not shown, but, of course, will be added if there are changes.

The columns are sorted by each sources House Projection. The races are sorted Rep. first, then Dem, and then by the likelihood of the seat flipping.

Update: And, of course, right after we post, CQPolitics updates 14 seats, 12 in the Democrats direction. A quick glance says CQ's estimate will go up to 7.1, and knock IL-8 and NY-19 off the board!

DCW House Forecast
State
CurrentCook
SSP
Crystal BallCQ
Rothenberg
....
Date

7/247/227/147/187/4
Dem

781036
Dem-Lean

1621162415
Tossup

2712181325
Rep-Lean

101810218
Rep

7813613
Dem-Prediction

35.334.433.832.932.1
Dem (not shown)

209209209209209
House Projection

244.3
243.4242.8241.9241.1
Dem-Gain

8.37.46.85.95.1

IL 11 (Open)
RDLTDDDL
NY 13 (Open)
RDLDLDDT
NY 25 (Open)
RDLDLDLDLDL
VA 11 (Open)
RDLDLDLDLDL
AZ 1 (Open)
RTTTDLT
AK AL (Young)
RTTTTT
MN 3 (Open)
RTTTTT
NJ 3 (Open)
RTDLTRLT
NJ 7 (Open)
RTTTTT
NM 1 (Open)
RTTTTT
OH 15 (Open)
RTTTTT
Oh 16 (Open)
RTTTTT
NC 8 (Hayes)
RTRLTTT
NY 26 (Open)
RTTTRLT
WA 8 (Reichert)
RTTRLTT
CO 4 (Musgrave)
RTRLTRLT
LA 4 (Open)
RTRLTRLT
IL 10 (Kirk)
RTRLRLRLT
MI 7 (Wahlberg)
RTRLTRLRL
NY 29 (Kuhl)
RTRLRLRLT
CT 4 (Shays)
RTRLRLRLRL
NV 3 (Porter)
RTRLRLRLRL
OH 1 (Chabot)
RTRLRLRLRL
AL 2 (Open)
RRLRLRLRLR
FL 24 (Feeney)
RRLRLRRLRL
MI 9 (Knollenberg)
RRLRLRRLRL
MO 6 (Graves)
RRLRLRRLRL
OH 2 (Schmidt)
RRRLRLRLRL
NM 2 (Open)
RRLRLRLRR
FL 13 (Buchanan)
RRRRLRLR
FL 21 (Diaz-Balart)
RRLRLRRR
PA 3 (English)
RRLRRRLR
VA 2 (Drake)
RRLRLRRR
CA 4 (Open)
RRRRRLR
FL 25 (M. Diaz-Balart)
RRRLRRR
FL 8 (Keller)
RRLRRRR
MO 9 (Open)
RRRRRLR
PA 6 (Gerlach)
RRRRRLR
WV 2 (Moore Capito)
RRLRRRR
WY AL (Cubin)
RRRRRLR
LA 6 (Cazayoux)
DTTTTT
AL 5 (Open)
DTDLTTT
KS 2 (Boyda)
DTDLTTT
TX 22 (Lampson)
DTTTDLT
FL 16 (Mahoney)
DDLDLTTT
CA 11 (McNerney)
DTDLDLDLT
NH 1 (Shea-Porter)
DTDLDLDLT
PA 10 (Carney)
DTDLDLDLT
GA 8 (Marshall)
DDLDLDLDLT
MS 1 (Childers)
DTDLDLDLDL
OR 5 (Open)
DDLDLDLTDL
AZ 5 (Mitchell)
DDLDLDLDLDL
AZ 8 (Giffords)
DDLDLDLDLDL
IN 9 (Hill)
DDLDLDLDLDL
KY 3 (Yarmuth)
DDLDLDLDLDL
NY 20 (Gillibrand)
DDLDLDLDLDL
PA 4 (Altmire)
DDLDLDLDLDL
WI 8 (Kagen)
DDLDLDLDLDL
IL 14 (Foster)
DDLDLDLDLD
PA 11 (Kanjorski)
DDLDDDLDL
MN 1 (Walz)
DDDDDLDL
CT 5 (Murphy)
DDDDDLD
GA 12 (Barrow)
DDDDDLD
IL 8 (Bean)
DDDDDLD
KS 3 (Moore)
DDDDDDL
NY 19 (Hall)
DDDDDLD
TX 23 (Rodriguez)
DDDDDLD


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The House Projection for each source gives Democrats 1.0 seats in a state that is projected solid for the Democrat, 0.8 seats for a Democrat-Lean, 0.5 seats for a a Tossup, 0.2 seats for a Republican-Lean, and 0 seats for a solid Republican seat.