Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Meet the New Boss

The freshman class (only those races definitely decided):

Arizona's 5th: Harry Mitchell (D) 51 percent, J.D. Hayworth (R) 46 percent

California's 11th: Jerry McNerney (D) 53 percent, Richard Pombo (R) 47 percent

Connecticut's 5th: Chris Murphy (D) 56 percent, Nancy Johnson (R) 44 percent

Florida's 22nd: Ron Klein (D) 51 percent, Clay Shaw (R) 47 percent

Indiana's 2nd: Joe Donnelly (D) 54 percent, Chris Chocola (R) 46 percent

Indiana's 8th: Brad Ellsworth (D) 61 percent, John Hostettler (R) 39 percent

Indiana's 9th: Baron Hill (D) 49 percent, Mike Sodrel (R) 46 percent

Iowa's 2nd: Dave Loebsack (D) 51 percent, Jim Leach (R) 49 percent

Kansas' 2nd: Nancy Boyda (D) 51 percent, Jim Ryun (R) 47 percent

Kentucky's 3rd: John Yarmuth (D) 51 percent, Anne Northup (R) 48 percent

Minnesota's 1st: Tim Walz (D) 53 percent, Gil Gutknecht (R) 47 percent

New Hampshire's 1st: Carol Shea-Porter (D) 51 percent, Jeb Bradley (R) 49 percent

New Hampshire's 2nd: Paul Hodes (D) 53 percent, Charles Bass (R) 45 percent

New York's 19th: John Hall (D) 51 percent, Sue Kelly (R) 49 percent

New York's 20th: Kirsten Gillibrand (D) 53 percent, John Sweeney (R) 47 percent

North Carolina's 11th: Heath Shuler (D) 54 percent, Charles Taylor (R) 46 percent

Pennsylvania's 4th: Jason Altmire (D) 52 percent, Melissa Hart (R) 48 percent

Pennsylvania's 7th: Joe Sestak (D) 56 percent, Curt Weldon (R) 44 percent

Pennsylvania's 10th: Chris Carney (D) 53 percent, Don Sherwood (R) 47 percent

GOP open seats lost:

Arizona's 8th: Gabrielle Giffords (D) 54 percent, Randy Graf (R) 42 percent

Florida's 16th: Tim Mahoney (D) 49 percent, Mark Foley/Joe Negron (R) 48 percent

Colorado's 7th: Ed Perlmutter (D) 55 percent, Rick O'Donnell (R) 42 percent

Iowa's 1st: Bruce Braley (D) 55 percent, Mike Whalen (R) 43 percent

New York's 24th: Michael Arcuri (D) 54 percent, Ray Meier (R) 45 percent

Ohio's 18th: Zack Space (D) 62 percent, Joy Padgett (R) 38 percent

Texas' 22nd: Nick Lampson (D) 52 percent, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (R) 42 percent

Wisconsin's 8th: Steve Kagen (D) 51 percent, John Gard (R) 49 percent