Cook, CQ, Rothenberg Agree: 43 GOP-Held Seats Are Either Toss-Ups Or Tilt Dem
So by now the Cook Political Report, CQ Politics, and the Rothenberg Political Report have all made their final predictions. We here at Election Central thought it would be interesting to look at which races they agree on. So we drew up a chart indicating which assessments are shared by at least two of the three analysts. The result? The analysts agree that an astonishing 43 GOP-held seats are either toss-ups or are tilting towards the Dem. Update: It's actually 44 seats. Check out our full chart after the jump.
Our three analysts are CQ Politics, Cook Political Report, and Rothenberg Political report. Here's our chart showing which race assessments are agreed upon by at least two of the three:





















I can maybe do you one better than this. I've been tracking House race rankings from all three of these guys (Cook, CQ and Rothenberg) for the past month, plus National Journal's Hotline, Evans-Novak and Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball. I have a spreadsheet if anyone wants it.
I have been averaging up the race ratings from all six and posting a weekly list of districts scoring 3 or better on a scale of 0-7 (where 0 is Safe Republican and 7 is Safe Dem). Link to the latest, posted last night, is:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/6/195154/194
November 7, 2006 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink