Friday, August 08, 2008

House Forecast - August 8 - Slow and Steady

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DCW House Forecast: 243.5 (+7.5) [was 242.7 (+6.7)]. 19 districts had movement in the Democratic direction, with 6 districts moving the other way. And 3 Democratic-held seats move off the charts: IL-8, KS-3 and NY-19.

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 Republican first, then Dem, and then by the likelihood of the seat flipping.

DCW House Forecast
State
CurrentCookSSPCQRothenbergCrystal Ball....
Date

8/78/68/87/297/14
Dem

9741310
Dem-Lean

152223616
Tossup

2513152818
Rep-Lean

1117221110
Rep

783913
Dem-Prediction

35.734.534.334.033.8
Dem (not shown)

209209209209209
House Projection

244.7243.5243.3243.0242.8
Dem-Gain

8.77.57.37.06.8

NY 13 (Open)
RDDLDDD
NY 25 (Open)
RDDLDLDDL
VA 11 (Open)
RDLDLDLDLDL
IL 11 (Open)
RDLTDLTD
AZ 1 (Open)
RDLTDLTT
NJ 3 (Open)
RTDLTTT
AK AL (Young)
RTTTTT
MN 3 (Open)
RTTTTT
NJ 7 (Open)
RTTTTT
NM 1 (Open)
RTTTTT
OH 15 (Open)
RTTTTT
Oh 16 (Open)
RTTTTT
NC 8 (Hayes)
RTRLTTT
WA 8 (Reichert)
RTTTTRL
CO 4 (Musgrave)
RTRLRLTT
LA 4 (Open)
RTRLRLTT
NV 3 (Porter)
RTTRLTRL
NY 26 (Open)
RRLTRLTT
CT 4 (Shays)
RTRLTRLRL
MI 7 (Wahlberg)
RTRLRLRLT
NY 29 (Kuhl)
RTRLRLTRL
IL 10 (Kirk)
RTRLRLRLRL
NM 2 (Open)
RRLRLRLTRL
OH 1 (Chabot)
RTRLRLRLRL
FL 24 (Feeney)
RRLRLRLTR
AL 2 (Open)
RRLRLRLRRL
FL 21 (Diaz-Balart)
RRLRLRLRLR
MI 9 (Knollenberg)
RRLRLRLRLR
MO 6 (Graves)
RRLRLRLRLR
OH 2 (Schmidt)
RRRLRLRLRL
PA 3 (English)
RRLRRLRLR
VA 2 (Drake)
RRLRLRRLR
FL 13 (Buchanan)
RRRRLRRL
WV 2 (Moore Capito)
RRLRRLRR
CA 4 (Open)
RRRRLRR
FL 25 (M. Diaz-Balart)
RRRLRRR
FL 8 (Keller)
RRLRRRR
MO 9 (Open)
RRRRLRR
PA 6 (Gerlach)
RRRRLRR
WY AL (Open)
RRRRLRR

TX 22 (Lampson)
DTTTRLT
LA 6 (Cazayoux)
DTTTTT
AL 5 (Open)
DTDLTTT
KS 2 (Boyda)
DTDLTTT
FL 16 (Mahoney)
DDLDLTTT
CA 11 (McNerney)
DTDLDLTDL
NH 1 (Shea-Porter)
DTDLDLTDL
PA 10 (Carney)
DTDLDLTDL
GA 8 (Marshall)
DDLDLDLTDL
WI 8 (Kagen)
DDLDLDLTDL
MS 1 (Childers)
DTDLDLDDL
PA 11 (Kanjorski)
DDLDLDLTD
AZ 5 (Mitchell)
DDLDLDLDLDL
AZ 8 (Giffords)
DDLDLDLDLDL
KY 3 (Yarmuth)
DDLDLDLDLDL
OR 5 (Open)
DDLDLDLDLDL
PA 4 (Altmire)
DDLDLDLDLDL
IL 14 (Foster)
DDLDLDLDDL
IN 9 (Hill)
DDLDLDLDDL
NY 20 (Gillibrand)
DDLDLDLDDL
CT 5 (Murphy)
DDDDLDD
GA 12 (Barrow)
DDDDLDD
MN 1 (Walz)
DDDDLDD
TX 23 (Rodriguez)
DDDDLDD


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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.