I'm going........................to bed.
Posted on 11/07/2006 5:04:31 PM PST by Dog
Please Mods can we have one central Live thread ...its tough jumping from thread to thread to get results.
Oh NOOOOO.....
I thought Jean Schmidt won her race? That was one victory I was happy about. There aren't too many tonight...
I think in Ohio it's the real deal; based on a friend who lives in Ohio and is very upset with the GOP because of all the good-paying jobs (including her husbands) that have gone away due to outsourcing. They are moving to Florida and she "used" to be a conservative.
The numbers just changed for Steele. Baltimore is in and he's still ahead by 32k votes.
So we improve the US economy by legislating that shipping containers be a bunch of different sizes?
So now it comes down to Montana and/or military ballots in Virginia...
So sad.
There should be a recount and what about all the absentee ballots?
Jez- he got CRUSHED. Please stop looking at that site, and citing it.
When everyone's more scared and poorer ... and we will be, involuntarily.
and Maryland, right?
Sorry to say, but that is an accurate call. The Republicans were done in by the war. Across the board.
Baltimore is in and he's still ahead by 32k votes.
That sentiment must be in the top 5 reasons of why we lost tonight because you are most assuredly wrong.
JD Hayworth ought to stand as a monument to how wrong the illegal immigration fanatics were and are.
Yep.
U.S. Senate - Maryland
U.S. Senate 90.9% of 1,793 precincts reporting
Candidate Party Vote Count % Votes Cast
Ben Cardin Dem 770,377 54.1%
Michael Steele GOP 632,350 44.4%
Kevin Zeese Grn 21,918 1.5%
Updated: 11/8/2006 2:03 AM ET
You are stuck in a time warp on the Steele counts. CNN has over 1.4 million votes shown already for hours and more than 90% in...
Nope- Steele got crushed
Macines wouldn't break down in my precinct. It's all paper ballots and a pencil here! :)
I'm not sure that we have to turn a whole lot of minds to retake both houses. Yes, for some states like RI and perhaps NY this may be the bluing of the blue (as John Fund called it,) and they won't be going back. But we won razor thin races in the last few elections, so losing razor thin ones this time doesn't necessarily mean that this was a true 'wave' realignment. Enough races could well flip next time for us to get both back, as well as retain the Presidency. Especially if Rudy is leading the ticket. Let's see, in the Senate we lost a rookie legacy child (they rarely perform well long term) in the most Dem state in the country, lost an OH senator after a huge corruption scandal with the gov who refused to resign and so every remaining day pissed off the voters, and apparently lost MO, which is always razor thin, and VA which has been trending towards a GOP/Dem equilibrium. Santorum was a conservative oddity in a Dem state that traditionally flips parties every 8 years at the state level, and Montana was a loss due to corruption. Only RI points toward a permanent shift that probably locks out the GOP.
Am not going to copout and just claim the Perfect Storm as an excuse, but there was indeed an element of that. Control of everything will still be up for grabs in 2 years.
Rob, it's done and in your heart you know it.
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