Midwest and Plains

Scorecard | Some races that are expected to be close | John Dawson

House races

Texas-22

Tom DeLay's ill-timed pullout from this suburban Houston race left the GOP with only a write-in candidate to oppose former congressman Nick Lampson. To elect a Republican, voters in this conservative district will have to type on the voting machine the name of Shelley Sekula-Gibbs.

  • Sekula-Gibbs (R)
  • Lampson (D)

Indiana-8

The "Bloody Eighth" has booted six incumbents in the past 50 years—a record that should embolden Democratic challenger Brad Ellsworth, a local sheriff. Democrats have pumped cash

into Ellsworth's campaign, but Republican John Hostettler is counting on grassroots support from conservative evangelicals.