Larry Sabato’s latest projection for the 2010 election is for Republicans to gain 7 Senate seats, 27 House seats, and 6 governorships.

A couple of Sabato predictions in races for governor worth noting:

He predicts Jerry Brown will beat Meg Whitman in California. Quite possible, but I think Whitman’s still got a decent chance of winning.

He predicts GOP wins over incumbents (or the incumbent party) in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. All very plausible.

He has Robert Ehrlich jumping into the Maryland governor’s race and beating Martin O’Malley. I’d love to see it, but the polls don’t show that, at least not yet.

His calculations also include a bunch of “toss up” gubernatorial contests in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts (!) Minnesota, and Vermont.