Post-Election 2006: Playing the Numbers Game
News networks recognize Crystal Ball success rate
It’s been a long election season–seemingly much longer than midterms past–and your Crystal Ball is happy to have served our good readers right up until the end. As we mentioned in our final pre-election release, it’s been a wild ride as the dynamics of dozens of races have changed greatly from the spring to the summer and into the fall. To our Democratic readers out there, we say congratulations; To our Republican readers, we offer our condolences and a reminder that American politics is cyclical.
To the many readers who have contacted us in the last two days to acknowledge the Crystal Ball’s success rate this year, we say thank you. This was a closely contested midterm election that saw party control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs, and through hard work and maybe a little bit of luck, the Crystal Ball accurately predicted a gain of 6 Senate Seats and 29 House seats for Democrats. Predicting a gain of 7 governorships, the Crystal Ball was within one seat of the actual results. To paraphrase the Sugar Hill Gang, we don’t mean to brag and we don’t mean to boast, but hopefully this year we’ve been like hot butter on your breakfast toast…