By: Eric Zorn

Change of Subject readers have got it going on. They called six key races to particularly high degree of accuracy and got the slam dunk bonus question right, that the Democrats would take control of the U.S. House.

Our top prognosticator, Thomas Cynor of Woodstock (pictured), called the winning percentage in three of the races right on the nose and correctly forecast the dimension (though not the exact yet still unknown number) of the Democratic advantage in the next Congress.

Cynor, 38, is an attorney for McHenry County and is on the executive board of the McHenry County Democratic Party.

A rundown comparing the actual result to the average prediction of Change of Subject readers to Cynor’s prediction. Exactly accurate predictions in red:

CANDIDATE / RESULT / CoS Avg. / Cynor

Blagojevich 50 47 47
Topinka 40 42 43
Whitney 9 10 9

Stroger 54 53 54
Peraica 46 44 46

Roskam 51 49 51
Duckworth 49 47 49

Bean 51 54 56
McSweeney 44 45 44

Kirk 53 54 54
Seals 47 45 46

Giannoulias 54 54 54
Radogno 41 45 45

US House adv.
for Democrats 25-45 7 12

So, Mr. Cynor, can you tell me what’s going to happen to Tribune Company?

(Note, my original headline on this item referred to The Amazing Kreskin. One of my editors, who is younger than I am but not by that much, was baffled by the reference to the famed “mentalist” of the 1970s who, apparently, is still out there forecasting. But since I didn’t want to sow confusion and couldn’t think of a better known putative psychic, I changed the headline. Whose name should I have used?)