LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

Please Mods can we have one central Live thread ...its tough jumping from thread to thread to get results.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Because even liberals, respected him."

Huh? Is their some new definition of the word respected that I am not aware of?

[SeaBiscuit]

VA SEN [95.58% IN]
R- ALLEN 1,096,537 49.70%
D- WEBB 1,053,334 49.10%

[ThePythonicCow]

Move to Texas

Good idea. I just might do that, as soon as my kid is on his own. About one more year to go in this Left Coast Paradise.

[Mr Rogers]

You'd be hard pressed to find a GO that ISN'T a ticket puncher.

Any ADM running as a dem was a worthless POS while in uniform. Count on it!

[Perdogg]

That's more than .5% difference.

[Arkinsaw]

THAT is the real disaster tonight. This election result in the House will be interpreted as a rejection of Iraq policy. Nancy's Pelosi's House might well vote to cut funds and force the troops home early, ending our role as hyperpower and weakening the world in general. We will be perceived as having lost again, just like Vietnam, and the 'Rats and the media will dance on the graves of our brave celebrating our nation's alleged defeat and humiliation. The Sixties Hippies have won this round, and our children will pay the price.

911 was not a big enough crisis for us. Everybody wants to go back to pretending it didn't happen. Its old news. Its too sad to hear about. Life can return to what it was. If we just get out of Iraq it will all be be like September 10.

We are going to try that now and see if it works.

Sad to say it, but things have to get worse before they get better. We have indeed probably lost Iraq just like Vietnam......at home politically and mentally.

We are going to have to let the French and such deal with it.

[nitejohnboy]

Stuff it.

[durasell]

There was an election or something today, right?

[dirtboy]

Santorum isn't a moderate.

Santorum lost largely because the Dems were smart enough to nominate a pro-lifer in a strongly Catholic state. That right off the bat took away Santorum's core advantage over previous Dem opponents.

But I do agree that we cannot make sweeping generalizations about why the GOP fell, especially since the losses appear to be falling in line with typical losses that happen to the party with a six-year President in the White House.

[finnman69]

time to break out the Sore Loserman signs for VA

Allen is pulling ahead again

[CurlyBill]

We lost because the majority of the American people do not supportbought the media line about the current Republican agenda and leadership.

As for voter fraud, you're kidding yourself if you think it's not a factor. Why do DemonRats oppose IDs at polling places so vehemently? I'm not saying that tonight was the result of massive voter fraud, but it does exist in very large doses in my opinon.

[gotribe]

Good grief man, DeWine had some conservative positions we all liked. But he had some muddled, fence-sitting positions, too. What was his value proposition? Brown's was "save the middle class." Not that I agree with Brown of course, but people could remember what he was for. DeWine was outpunched.

[jaycee]

Dear Friends, Gotta check out, make my coffee, rest my wrist, and go nite-nite. Will keep Fox on for a while. Would like to find out about Talent, Allen, and Corker. I think Corker has it but Allen's is close and so is Talents. Ya'll keep on keeping on.

[pcottraux]

pcottraux heehee .He didn't look like a trool :)

It was the name "Rove is God" that threw me. I've seen far too many trolls with names like "Bush is God," "I Worship Bush," "Cheney is Christ," etc. etc.

[rintense]

Exactly. I'm afraid the days of a 'true conservative' ever having a chance at the national level are over. Every time Dems are in control, we take two steps toward socialism. And every time Pubs are in control, we take one step back. We will never regain what we had. Will we get some? Yep. But to be Joey blue skies about appealing to the base, redefining the party, etc. is wishful thinking.

[katieanna]

Allen up by 43000 votes. Over 95% reporting.

[Strategerist]

And the Republicans can't win without the Libertarian wing of the party. Somehow we need to figure out how to compromise, but the big-government social right won't consider bending even a little.

I think the problem is that Social Conservatives see polls on hot-button issues where they have majorities supporting their position (abortion, gay marriage) and then conclude they can win elections making those primary issues.

There's a difference between expressing a preference on a poll for an issue, and believing that the fate of the Republic and the Universe hangs on that issue. You'll typically find most people opposed to gay marriage in a poll, but there are a lot fewer people than Soc Cons would like to believe that are fanatically obsessed with the issue.

And frankly most people, particularly men, would just like the abortion issue to go away. The number of people on both sides that really, really care about the issue as a voting issue is fewer than both dedicated pro-lifers and pro-choicers would like to believe.

[CremeSaver]

I agree with you. This is our doing, and Republicans had damn well better sit down and figure out WHAT THEY DID WRONG! There is no way that this should be happening. Republicans never acted like a majority party, much too afraid of the media, the democrats, and our own moderates. They had the chance to lead for the last twelve years and did very little. They spent more time being defensive and cowering in corners. Hell, most of the time they were trying to out democrat democrats. Sickening!

[NorthWoody]

Mine either. Damn women don't know fun when it stares them in the face! :-)

[eddie willers]

This is a conservative state. Thinking of Zell Miller right now, who was more conservative than most GOPers.

And the two Dems just hanging on in the 8th and 12th are Zell Miller type conservatives whose own ads said things like "And I voted against my party to keep the Patriot Act strong.....etc."

Far to the right of the Chaffes, Snowes, Spectors etc.