Okay, here we go.
As you can see in the section above, we’re tallying the election results on our TPM Election Scoreboard. We’ll have the toplines here at the top of TPM. And you can click over the main TPM Election Scoreboard page for real-time results of all the contested races.
Now, you’ll see that there are already numbers up there on the board. 181 Democrats in the House and 157 Republicans. Where do we get that? Those are the races that CQ, Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg each agree are ‘safe’ seats. Those are the numbers we’ll start with as already in the bank for each party. (Obviously, if there are surprises we’ll recalibrate.) The numbers in play are the ones we’re tracking on the main page.
