Prediction Review

Checking in to see how I did on my prognostications:

Senate – Dan Coats.
Coats won handily, getting 45,000 more votes than his next closest rival, Marlin Stutzman. (Coats had about 185k versus Stuzman’s 140k.)

IN-01: Mark Leyva (no idea, but that was the one name I recognized)
This one is a tentative Leyva win. The Secretary of State count is reflecting a 27 vote margin above Peter Lindemulder. A news article I read said something about a 600 vote margin.

IN-02: Jackie Walorski (though Tony “Illinois Nazi birthday party” Zirkle would be fun)
Jackie Walorski won handily, pretty much doubling the count of her next closest opponent, Jack Jordan.

IN-03: Mark Souder (could be close though, he is not well liked and has some legitimate competition.)

Not really all that close. Souder had 35,750 votes to his next closest challenger, Bob Thomas, with 25,000.

IN-04: Toss-up, but I’ll guess Rokita – just from the name recognition he garnered by plastering his name on heavy Secretary of State advertising.

Not a toss-up. Rokita won by an enormous margin, more than doubling Brandt Hersman’s total.

IN-05: Dan Burton because all of the anti-Burton votes will cancel out.

Burton won with about 30,000; about 10,000 votes to spare above John McGoff’s 20,000.

IN-07: No idea, I’ll say Carlos May.

Wrong. Marvin Scott.

IN-08: No idea, I’ll pick Larry Bucshon out of a hat.

Looks like Bucshon narrowly beat Kristi Risk.

IN-09: Mike Sodrel for the re-re-re (I lost count) match against Baron Hill.
Wrong. Todd Young won this one. But, the Indiana Secretary of State’s office currently lists Travis Hankins as leading the vote count. But all of the newspapers list Young as the winner, so that pretty much calls into question all of the vote totals I’ve mentioned above. But, I think I’ve at least gotten the victors correct.