LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

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

[rdl6989]

Thanks for posting that. This will be very interesting.

[mwl1]

yes I want to see Burns win; 50-50 with Cheney and possibly Allen is a lot better than 49-51

[Arizona Carolyn]

After they re-elected Nagin did you expect anything different with Jefferson?

[SupplySider]

I for one am very upset about this looming over our heads, I still remember Vietnam too clearly and how the dems withdrew funding and forced us to withdraw.

And how 2,000,000 innocents were slaughtered in the aftermath. I pray it turns out better this time.

[SeaBiscuit]

U.S. Senate - Montana

U.S. Senate 73.8% of 867 precincts reporting
Candidate Party Vote Count % Votes Cast
Jon Tester Dem 149,922 49.9%
Conrad Burns (I) GOP 142,764 47.6%
Stan Jones Lib 7,507 2.5%
Updated: 11/8/2006 2:52 AM ET

[Howlin]

Unfortunately, those days are long past.

Well, let's try to guess which "faction" won't get along.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink won today.

[beyond the sea]

No, I think it's over for Burns. There's too many Democrat counties yet to even report in.

Terrible news.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I suspect the votes coming in from Yellowstone are in Billings. The outlying areas probably have already been counted.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I for one am very upset about this looming over our heads, I still remember Vietnam too clearly and how the dems withdrew funding and forced us to withdraw."

I bet they won't pull funding this time, instead Tomorrow there will be a poll on MSNBCCNNABCNBCCBS on when should the troops come home. That will be poundeded day in and day out. everyday allday 24/7 until President Bush finally pulls the troops out.

I am serious poll after poll talking head after talking head, Democrat after Democrat will make speeches, then finally the pressure will bear on the remaining Republicans in Congress and they will call for withdrawal as well. They will get the troops out of Iraq and when it all blows up and the terrorists sweep Iraq they will blame Bush.

The Dems are good at this game.

[Howlin]

Well, they sure can't claim the moral high ground, can they?

[MTMS]

I'm stupified, too. I am almost speechless. I really thought Americans were smarter than this but I must be naive.

[1035rep]

Ap had reported that some of the numbers were inverted. Here's a post from another freeper who has more information.

Allen said somethng about this in his statement - said the news services had "transposed" numbers and he was actually ahead by about 5000 votes, with a few districts still to be counted, but things had been shut down for the night.......

154 posted on 11/07/2006 10:08:11 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

Anyone have any further information on this?

[marsh_of_mists]

Wow. What a really, really, really, really disappointing night. I'm young and have only paid attention to politics for the past couple of years, so this is the first big defeat I've ever experienced. The worst part of all will be the gloating of liberals. I couldn't resist my curiousity to take a dip in Dummieland just now to see what they were saying. Of course, they are overjoyed and I suppose they've earned the right to be. I wonder what sort of Dummie Funnies PJ-Comix is going to be posting over the next week, to lift our spirits... But, you know, our circa 2004 fantasies about permanent conservative Republican takeover and the destruction of the Democrats were probably just a tad optimistic. So no worries; they'll swing to right again eventually and, no, I don't believe the doomsayers' prognostications that Pelosi and Bush will manage to import 50+ million Dem voters from Mexico and install the communistic, atheistic One World Government. Historically, things have been going back and forth for decades and decades, but the general trend has been a growing conservative political movement to counter the Left. The new media is on our side, demographics are on our side, truth is on our side! The USA will shift to Right again; indeed, it already is: this midterm was only lost through a combination of MSM anti-war propaganda, the administration's inability to communicate it's agenda, endles squooshiness and RINO botch-ups from the Congressional leadership, scandals real and manufactured, and the fact that the King of the Hill is always most in peril. And, even then the Democrats still thought it best to throw up a bunch of moderate or supposedly moderate "blue dog" type candidates to lure the middle to their side. But who knows what the next two years holds? It will be entertaining anway; you can bet on that. We can still pray that the we hold on to the Senate by the skin of our teeth. I hope and hope for that especially because of the Judiciary, but even if worst comes to worst and Bush is forced to throw up an O'Connor type to replace Stevens it's still not the end of the world. It will just maintain the status quo and take some time longer to get a majority in the Supreme Court --if America survived the Borking of Bork, it can survive that. In any case, the state of the government is still the symptom of the state of American society. What matters most isn't elections, it's what's going on at the grass roots. It's reforming the culture from the bottom up. I still wager that the future will go to the conservative Christians, the homeschoolers, the entrepreneurs, and the exurbanites. They are the ones with the dynamism and vitality to inherit our civilization, not a bunch of old hippies, their starry-eyed, over-pierced acolytes, and their perpetual victim groups. So we can and shall and ought to be disappointed, but we must never despair!

[bw17]

Go to this link:
http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2004/2004-GenState.pdf

It shows how Montana voted in 2004.

Hill went 2:1 Rep.
Cascade went 2:1 Rep.
Deer Lodge went slightly Dem
Glacier went even
Flathead went almost 3:1 Republican
Fergus went even
Judith Basin went even
Gallatin was strong Republican
Lake was even.

The largest counties were Flathead and Gallatin. There are a lot of Republican votes still not counted in those counties.

[jayef]

If you want to solve this mystery . . . do so ON YOUR OWN TIME. Nobody here is interested.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Because I listed to him on the radio a couple of weeks ago and for several days in a row that is all he was saying. I got so angry I quit listening to him.. He kept saying how the GOP needed to be taught a lesson. I always liked him and couldn't believe what he said and today on Hannity you'd think he never said those things. Believe me I didn't imagine it and it will take me a long time before I listen to his show again.

[JeffAtlanta]

The Democrats may not screw up the country as bad as some say, Bush still has veto power.

I agree with you. While this situation is far from ideal, Clinton and the GOP congress were able to keep each other in check so I would imagine that Bush will be able to as well.

This may be trying to find a silver lining, but this may actually result in Bush and the remaining GOP congressmen acting more conservative on a lot of issues.

If we run a good presidential campaign in 2008, we can regain control.

[SeaBiscuit]

There are still far too many that rely on a quck glance at the boob tube for information.

[SoDak]

Here comes two straight years of hearings and investigations, Nancy and Harry. I won't be able to watch or read the news for 2 years, at a minumum.