LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

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

[windchime]

Maybe I'll switch back to Shep, then. MSNBC is calling her a self-declared winner. Saying tradition is that concession by opponent usually precedes such a thing.

[Arizona Carolyn]

There goes the grand old party.

[Bush Revolution]

Just looked on Fox returns and Jean Schmidt (R) Ohio, is picked to win.

[Blackirish]

What I'm talking about is a fringe element who is more concerned about gay dude then a islamist taking out NY with a dirty bomb.

The social rights priorities are way...way off and the voters just shoved it right in their face.

[ohioWfan]

I said "INFORMED."

Blackwell opposed Taft. That's why the establishment didn't fully support him.

No educated conservative should have opposed Blackwell based on Taft. Period.

Why didn't you tell them?

[onyx]

Whatever --- it's creepy.

[peggybac]

What about all the absentee ballots? They'll definitely go to Talent.

[Darnright]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_478753.html

How sweet. Now that Murtha's won another term in office, he's going to challenge Nancy Pelosi for the Leader post.

[spinestein]

[Does everyone STILL think getting rid of Chaffee was a good idea?]

Yes. I do. And you can take John McCain along for all I care, since I consider them (and a few others, too) to be detrimental to the ideas I support in government: free market economic policy, strict adherence to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, strong and decisive foreign policy and something called integrity.

I don't include being a member of a particular party to be a virtue worth voting for all by itself, simply because it may allow a politician to count himself among the majority, and any politician who says to his constituents "Hey, you'd better give me what I demand in terms of committees, pet project legislation and pork or else I'll sabotage your big plans by voting with the opposition" is a certain liability and good riddance.

[alnick]

Amen Brother!

[COEXERJ145]

There is a State Representative district near me where the Rat and Rep are basically tied in an area that is overwhelming Republican.

The Rat's commercials were "the incumbent did this or the incumbent did that". Never once mentioned the incumbent (R) by name or that the challenger was a Rat.

Everything the Rat ran on was pro-farmer/rancher as the district is mostly rural.

[NYC Republican]

She's all class too... Instead of being humble, this scumbag comes out saying "voters have rejected politics of personal destruction"... She was the one who was nasty and bitter, not Talent... In fact, he was a wuss

[Jezebelle]

From the MD Sec. State website election results for U.S. Senate: http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2006/results/general/office_US_Senator.html

U.S. SENATOR Results
Candidates for U.S. Senator (Vote for one)
Michael S. Steele Benjamin L. Cardin Kevin Zeese Lih Young Other Write-Ins
Republican Democratic Green (Write In)
Democratic
Allegany 11,714 7,726 276 0 2
Anne Arundel No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Baltimore City No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Baltimore No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Calvert 14,968 11,521 432 0 9
Caroline 5,345 2,630 175 0 1
Carroll 38,021 17,282 1,021 0 24
Cecil 14,809 10,639 522 0 9
Charles 17,637 19,115 489 0 21
Dorchester No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Frederick 38,314 26,770 1,058 0 31
Garrett 6,320 2,328 96 0 3
Harford No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Howard No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Kent 3,641 3,077 120 0 1
Montgomery No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Prince George's No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
Queen Anne's No votes No votes No votes No votes No votes
St. Mary's 14,787 10,556 426 0 11
Somerset 3,524 2,369 90 0 3
Talbot 8,001 4,921 174 0 7
Washington 22,268 14,454 515 0 17
Wicomico 15,281 9,498 349 0 17
Worcester 10,623 6,554 214 0 3
Totals 225,253 (59.2%) 149,440 (39.2%) 5,957 (1.6%) 0 (0.0%) 159 (0.0%)

[Cedar]

"old couple (too late at night to remember their names) gets richer than rich,"

My brother in KC knows this "old couple," and he was very upset at BOR the other night (whom he usually likes) for not mentioning that the Foundation is not-for-profit. So, the couple will not be getting money from it.

Having said that, I am myself definitely AGAINST embryonic stem cell research.

[peggybac]

I heard Webb did the same thing as McCaskill

[gipper81]

trade and jobs offshoring issues are the reasons why.

Is there data support for this or just one of those hunches?

[Howlin]

I agree.

[Jezebelle]

He wasn't even eligible to run because his bar card hadn't been active for at least 5 years prior to the election. It was aonly about 3 years. But, hey, he's a Dem, so that doesn't matter. Lie, cheat, steal, ignore the rules, they're not meant for Dems.