Posted on 11/08/2006 5:47:07 AM PST by areafiftyone
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An aide to Sen. Conrad Burns (R) tells the Hotline this morning that Burns has no plans to concede the MT Senate race anytime soon. The aide said that 21K absentee ballots have yet to be counted and other counties still haven’t finished canvassing their regular returns. Democratic officials are confident that Jon Tester (D) will win.
What is left to do in the MT race? Absentee ballots, recounts, litigation?
Well 21,000 ballots yet to be counted can mean a big difference.
Good!, it ain't over yet.
I'm sure he doesn't want to pull a "Gore" by conceeding then unconceeding when the count gets really close.
He will need to win 54% of the 21,000 ballots to overtake if the difference right now is 1,600 votes.
Yeah, I don't see any reason to concede now. The difference is only about 1,500 now, and with assumption that the bigger part of 21,000 absentee ballots will go to Burns, he still has hope. What seems to be unavoidable, however, is recount.
Any word on the Virginia race? Will Allen do a recount?
I hope everyone is offering up prayers.
that is a doable number
Great news. This is looking like a possible narrow win.
A recount in VA is pretty much automatic if it's less than one-half of one percent (which it is), the question in VA will be whether overseas ballots have been counted.
Latest numbers:
Jon Tester (DEM) 194,914 49%
Conrad Burns (REP)* 193,179 49%
99 percent of precinets
Burns down 1,735
gap is widening. Not good.
I wonder how many military ballots are out there from Virginia bases.
I don't know, and I am hearing conflicting reports about whether or not they've been counted (Allen says that there are more left to count). If there are 25,000 or more overseas military ballots to count, then it could really swing things.
Montana, red state extraordinare ... what the HELL were you thinking even making this close??????
Yellowstone now 100% reporting
What to think? I hate Burns but the Republicans need to keep the Senate.
I can deal with a Dim House and a Republican Senate, because the silver lining may be that they'll be fighting with each other so much that their capacity to damage the country will be hindered. But Dims having both houses -- uh-oh. Couple that with maybe the next president being Dim -- *cold shivers*.
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