Election 2010: HuffPost 'Predict The News' Challenge (POLLS)

Think you're a political guru? Have a crystal ball? Try your hand at predicting the results of the 2010 midterm elections. But be careful because once you submit each vote, there's no going back on it.

After you make a prediction, check out how you stack up with other HuffPost readers and challenge your friends via Facebook and Twitter. You'll earn points for each prediction you make that turns out to be correct.

Feel free to utilize our updated polling data with this Election 2010 Dashboard and the latest election stories here as you make your decisions.

Each poll below will close as the official polls close. Once everything is official, we'll announce the "winner" for who successfully predicts the most outcomes. Good luck!

2010 GUBERNATIORIAL RACES

California: Whitman (R) vs. Brown (D) (PREDICT!) Colorado: Hickenlooper (D) vs. Maes (R) vs. Tancredo (CP) (PREDICT!) Florida Scott (R) vs. Sink (D) (PREDICT!) Georgia: Deal (R) vs. Barnes (D) (PREDICT!) Illinois: Quinn (D) vs. Brady (R) (PREDICT!) Maine: LePage (R) vs. Mitchell (D) (PREDICT!) Maryland: Erlich (R) vs. O'Malley (D) (PREDICT!) Massachusetts: Patrick (D) vs. Baker (R) vs. Cahill (I) (PREDICT!) Minnesota: Dayton (D) vs. Emmer (R) (PREDICT!) New York: Cuomo (D) vs. Paladino (R) (PREDICT!) Ohio: Kasich (R) vs. Strickland (D) (PREDICT!) Oregon: Dudley (R) vs. Kitzhaber (D) (PREDICT!) Rhode Island: Caprio (D) vs. Robitaille (R) vs. Chaffee (I) (PREDICT!) South Carolina: Haley (R) vs. Sheheen (D) (PREDICT!) Texas: Perry (R) vs. White (D) (PREDICT!) Vermont: Dubie (R) vs. Shumlin (D) (PREDICT!)

2010 SENATORIAL RACES

Alaska: Murkowski (W-I) vs. Miller (R) vs. McAdams (D) (PREDICT!) California: Boxer (D) vs. Fiorina (R) (PREDICT!) Colorado: Bennet (D) vs. Buck (R) (PREDICT!) Connecticut: McMahon (R) vs. Blumenthal (D) (PREDICT!) Delaware: O'Donnell (R) vs. Coons (D) (PREDICT!) Florida: Rubio (R) vs. Crist (I) vs. Meek (D) (PREDICT!) Illinois: Giannoulias (D) vs. Kirk (R) (PREDICT!) Kentucky: Paul (R) vs. Conway (D) (PREDICT!) Louisiana: Vitter (R) vs. Melancon (D) (PREDICT!) Missouri: Blunt (R) vs. Carnahan (D) (PREDICT!) Nevada: Reid (D) vs. Angle (R) (PREDICT!) New Hampshire: Ayotte (R) vs. Hodes (D) (PREDICT!) North Carolina: Burr (R) vs. Marshall (D) (PREDICT!) Pennsylvania: Sestak (D) vs. Toomey (R) (PREDICT!) Washington: Murray (D) vs. Rossi (R) (PREDICT!) West Virginia: Manchin (D) vs. Raese (R) (PREDICT!) Wisconsin: Feingold (D) vs. Johnson (R) (PREDICT!)

How many House seats will the Republicans gain? (PREDICT!)

How many Senate seats will the Republicans gain? (PREDICT!)

Comments

[General Public]

08:39 PM on 11/05/2010

Confound it all! I just noticed someone with a "Predictor" badge, searched for what it meant, and found this article, but it's too late for me to get one now that the election's over! Will there be any opportunity to get a Predictor badge in the future? I really want one! Post more things for us to predict!

[Anthony Gonzalez]

08:37 PM on 11/08/2010

I'm pretty sure the 2011-12 Republican Primaries and Democratic Primaries are the next big ones with the 2012 Election being a huge chance. I got a Predictor Badge though. It wasn't too hard.

[HighSierra1981]

05:55 PM on 11/16/2010

I got the badge today but it isn't like it shows up next to your comments...Boring!

[billiej]

08:24 PM on 11/02/2010

The visual illustrating most vividly the failure of the Obama administration shows Obama in a 'backyard session', 'listening' to the American people.

If President Obama had been listening for the last two years, he'd have heard American people wanted change in three areas:

1 The American people wanted a government administered plan like Medicare - for everyone. (CBS/New York Times poll June 2009)

1A. Democrats gave private sector insurers a windfall: mandated customers, with a taxpayer-paid overhead rate of 20% for ‘mandated customers’ (20% of our premium spent on administration, CEO salaries, bonuses, Boards to set rates and decide who’s covered and ‘profits’).

2 64% of the American people opposed expanding the war in Afghanistan and wanted to disentangle from Bush-era ‘War on Terror’ and ‘preventive war’ policies.

2B. Democrats gave us an expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

3 The vast majority of Americans opposed the transfer of taxpayer wealth to cover private company debt – a la the bailout.

3B. Democrats kept the 6 too-big-to-fail banks – now bigger than ever; kept deposits at risk my maintaining huge grey areas between commercial and investment banking; didn't 'punish' the financial industry - now more profitable than before with bonuses among the biggest ever.

None are so blind as those who will not see, nor deaf as those who will not hear.

[John Smith123]

07:33 PM on 11/02/2010

Forget the pollsters and pundits. The ONLY question now is, will you be the person who changes the equation by picking up the phone and calling just 10 voters today?

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[FreeHat]

07:20 PM on 11/02/2010

The internet has introduced a new breed of political analysts. The vast majority of whom didn't read the political part of the broadsheets to begin with. So we end up with amateur hour. Welcome sanity rally and t party rally.

[Agathon]

04:22 PM on 11/02/2010

President Obmama should ACTUALLY BEGIN governinf from the left. To me, his problem is that he attempts to implement socially beneficial programs and then caves to "The Party of No" with one compromise after another. The result is a frankenstein amalgam of parts that no body is really happy about.

Conservatives should be happy with Mr. Obama because his approach to politics has resulted in a general shift to the right. Every election cycle that goes by represents another win for capitalists and The People become more and more disenfranchised by their own stupidity. Socially beneficial / responsible programs are by definition in the best interest of The People; otherwise it's pay to play. What if you're not an aggressive personality? What if money isn't your overlord and master? Should these people just go off to some corner and rot once they've been completely exploited? Values have been sold to the highest bidder.

Hard to have socially responsible politics when capital controls the state, not to mention the minds of the ignorant electorate who vote against their own best interests. Fish or cut bait Mr. President; if you truly believe that people are more important than money, then it's time consider something new. We live a life of illusion and hardly realize that there's more to life than money, aside from being "angry" and that nagging sense of being somehow incomplete.

Americans need to realize that they have become enslaved and that today's democrat versus republican is no choice at

[sticky29]

05:45 PM on 11/02/2010

If he get's any further left he'll topple over!!!

[notatowniegirl]

08:15 PM on 11/02/2010

Horsepucky... in most developed nations he'd be considered a moderate conservative.

[raphaelbonee]

04:21 PM on 11/02/2010

My prediction is politico and real politics will be by as much as 30 % in their poling and predictions ... no one will get fired. I predict that Washington Times and the Wall street journal will brush back the wrong commentary hide the commenters in the style and fashion sections until the just before the next election. Again no one will be fired.

The headline "Dems hold on to House and Senate" will be buried on the second page whereas "Republicans retool to obstruct Obama agenda" will be on the front page.

Boener will be seen buying martini mix by the case.

[Andrea Torres]

03:58 PM on 11/02/2010

It's all too depressing for me. Days like this I'm glad I don't own a TV.

[Shake-A-Spear]

05:13 PM on 11/02/2010

Don't own a TV? What do you snooze by in that easy chair?

[Andrea Torres]

07:24 PM on 11/05/2010

anything I would want to watch on TV I can watch for free on my computer.. so usually not your standard easy chair per se, but a nice cozy bed is usually the norm. :D

[out here]

06:04 PM on 11/02/2010

agree with you, no tv or easy chair either, but did vote. did you know that a governor candidate here is a socialist? voted for him.

lots of people out doing exit polls, had to elbow my way through the line at the sidewalk.

[ibsteve2u]

03:51 PM on 11/02/2010

Predict who will win? OK: I predict America's wealthy few will win.

As usual. Even if they destroy America.

[Ken Maddox]

03:31 PM on 11/02/2010

Well over 5 Million have indicated on FB, that they have voted. 2:30 PM CDT

[namewithheld]

03:18 PM on 11/02/2010

Did I miss Greene v. DeMint?

[Flowymac]

05:30 PM on 11/02/2010

ROFLMAO

[lustforlife802]

03:06 PM on 11/02/2010

Some people people are undecided? What a crock. Big night for the R's, Dems will live to fight another day- 2012.

[contrariandy]

02:34 PM on 11/02/2010

Things that should happen:
All of the misleading advertising bought by Big Money made more people aware of the election resulting in a massive turnout rivaling a Presidential year rendering such advertising useless in future elections.
All of the negative, unnamed Big Money advertising and Republican suppress the vote efforts made people madder than ever resulting in them coming out to vote against such things rendering them useless in future elections.
The polls were wrong, rendering them useless in future elections, so the media who spent 99% of the time talking about polls decide to talk instead about real issues in the next election.
All of the candidates supported by the Tea Party and Sarah Palin lose rendering them useless in future elections.
Useless Pat Buchanan retires effective immediately.
No one watches ABC ever again because they hired Breitbart making both totally useless as of tonight.

[angrykeyboarder]

02:19 PM on 11/02/2010

I guess there was no point in listing the Senatorial race for Arizona eh? ;)

[yellowdog71]

01:49 PM on 11/02/2010

How can any Democrat vote for the GOP? Or vice versa? The core values are incompatible.
The Dems know that without manufacturing there is no middle class in America, yet the GOP only succeed if the nation, the economy, the President and the Dems fail. The Dems have pushed legislation to stop tax breaks for companies that outsource to foreign nations, to stop tax breaks for companies that move off shore, a jobs bill and more but the GOP have pushed for that super majority every time. And without a proper minimum wage, we are even more beholden to big business to do what's right. Haven't you on the right seen what happens without proper oversight?

Stop believing everything what you hear.

A vote for Dems IS a vote for the working man, the middle class. Dems push for infrastructure spending and green jobs, which will be the manufacturing jobs of the 21st century, and a return to a thriving middle class!

The GOP agenda is holding the nation hostage and we can't have a thriving middle class in this country as long as the GOP agenda is given preference. As long as corporations are enabled, profits matter more than American workers.

The GOP won't distance themselves from the f@scist element enveloping the party.

[liberal conservative]

02:28 PM on 11/02/2010

You sir are an idiot.
MOD Squad.
Mindless Obama Drone.

[yellowdog71]

02:53 PM on 11/02/2010

....so says the mindless drone.

Why don't you try to have a coherent point? Don't you know how to use words other than idiot? Oh wait, more namecalling?

Typical rightwinger. A leftie gives you a list of points to which you reply with some schoolyard zinger and think you won the debate. Wake up, put down the Kool-Aid and try to think for yourself...SIR.

Turn the channel off the fox. There's places you can actually get news, and that is not the place.

[yellowdog71]

02:54 PM on 11/02/2010

0 fans. GOP plant.... How much do you get paid per post?

[terroh8er]

11:53 AM on 11/02/2010

People are overly optimistic..