Patrick Ishmael is a Republican political analyst, journalist[1] and strategist from Missouri. He is best known as an original Hot Air Green Room contributor who as part of a seven-month series devoted to estimating Republican electoral gains, correctly predicted the net number of U.S. House of Representatives seats Republicans would win in the 2010 House elections.[2][3] Previously, Ishmael served as the Missouri election day operations coordinator for the John McCain Presidential campaign in 2008.[4] He lives in St. Louis.