Posted on 11/08/2006 6:32:17 AM PST by NapkinUser
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com ...
You would think these have to be 60% or better for Burns which would be about 2100 votes.
"With 99 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, Tester had 194,914 votes, or 48.9 percent, and Burns had 193,179 votes, or 48.5 percent."
So we could gold Montana and the Senate with 300 votes?
Cmon Montana. Allen shot himself in the foot too many times. He's toast. But having Burns hold on would be a godsend.
A new direction --- yes backwards is a direction.
Thanks go out to all the libertarians who threw away their votes and to all those who sat out the election in protest!
Possibly. Although I would like the final number to 537 (Florida 2000) votes just to screw with the RATS heads.
LOL that would be a silver lining..
The threshold for recount is about 2000.
Looks like these will be recounted.
"The Senate hung in the balance Wednesday because of extremely tight races in Virginia and Montana. Democrats needed to win both to complete their grip on legislative power. A potential Virginia recount could further lengthen the suspense."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eln_election_rdp
We have gloating hippies and union goons in Missoula, MT today.
Yep. We can hope that not too many of those are Californians who have summer homes in Montana and are more military families....
Such a shame that Yellowstone County didn't break more for Burns. He needed a 3-4% separation and only got 2%.
Incidentally, Libertarians, assuming that they would have broken Republican given the chance, would have clearly given Burns the victory.
Third-Party may have sunk this one.
Unfortunately the libertarian vote wasters will turn out to be the difference.
The GOP lost their nerve back when the Clinton's compiled all their FBI files. None of them have dared to take a stand on principle since then!
The GOP wrote off Montana months ago and only re-focused here in the last couple of weeks.
Maybe next time we wont take fly-over states like Montana for granted as being of no consequences to a national election like Florida and Ohio has been in past elections!
Ithaca,NY coming to a city near you!/s
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