LIVE THREAD: ELECTIONS 2006

[Dog]

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

[Jezebelle]

You're not too big on substantive replies. Those who can, do. Those who can't, just use ad hominem and BS. You, my friend, are in the latter category.

BTW, Steele, hasn't conceded due to a large number of uncounted absentee ballots.

[tcrlaf]

LOTS of allegations of Democrat Voter Fraud, Vote buying, and Voter Intimidation this year in Indiana...

It seems that Dems pulled out all the stops trying to win...

The Voter ID law has OBVIOUSLY made Democrats desperate here, and I would question Carson's 9,700 vote "Victory" if I had the choice.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Someone posted a link that Murtha has decided to bypass Ways and Means (his first request) and go for the brass knob -- speaker. There can be one reason only that he is desperate to either control the purse or the whole house.

[marsh_of_mists]

Do you mind if I post all that again with paragraphs? I forgot to put them in:

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!

[windchime]

"They will get the troops out of Iraq and when it all blows up and the terrorists sweep Iraq they will blame Bush."

I agree. That has been their plan.

[cookcounty]

Just checked Montana, there are 7 counties who have reported no votes so far, with 59 precincts. NONE of these counties have any incumbent Dems in office (quite a few pubbies).

[BigSkyFreeper]

I blame all the voters who didn't have the God given sense to realize this country was attacked on 9/11, we're fighting two wars with an enemy willing and able to chop heads off with frightening glee, illegals are pouring into this country, and the secular progressives have been doing their damndest to destroy this country within in a time of war.

[JeffAtlanta]

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.

He never told anyone to vote for the democrats. He has rightfully criticized the way that the GOP has governed but that's it.

[Jezebelle]

Please show me where I begged you to reply to me on this subject or any other.

[MTMS]

You are absolutely right. Not having television for 24 years has made the difference in my life but most folks just put their brain in neutral and believe whatever comes out of that little black box.

[mwl1]

Let's not forget that Liddy Dole won the leadership battle to head the NRSC by one vote 27-26 over Norm Coleman.

I wonder how much different this cycle would have been with a better leader at the NRSC.

[Mad Dawgg]

"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."

I fear the remaining Repubs will cave and bring pressure as well. I don't think there are too many fighters left on the Right side of the Aisle.

[mwl1]

We can regain control of the House in 2008 but not the Senate. We have to defend 22 Senate seats; RATS only 12 - arithmetic works heavily against us.

[peggybac]

"I'm sorry to say this......but it looks like "shrugging" is exactly what happened today in this country. I lived through that same attitude during Viet Nam. And it's sickening. I'm more sad than angry.....and heartbroken."

The most profound post of the night. God bless you.

[Jrabbit]

Fox showed Allen talking to his supporters....he said the totals wouldn't be in til tomorrow......Shep said Allen called them and told them they had transposed the totals. Shep and Carl Cameron started squealing about losers blaming the media. That transposing numbers was no big deal! That's when I turned off Fox.....for good.

[bw17]

They just reduced the number of precincts reporting from 74% to 70%...and Burns closed to within 5700 votes.

[A CA Guy]

It would be normal to see a shift in elections to some level based on who is in power.
At this point, the shifts were about a third of normal.

Plus the big factor in this is the constant pounding by almost all press with lies regarding Iraq, the lie that Bush has no plan, and that we lost any battle there.
I am glad that media is dying out.

We know the Republicans have over a billion in negative press with the main stream news and that the Democrats have a billion in free positive press helping.

If the press was honest and not pushing for any party, the Democrats would get no more than 30% of the vote these days IMO.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Nope. So many didn't even have sense to evacuate when told to do so, why would they use any more sense with their privilidge to vote. Did they bring out the buses and have a parade and pay them to vote like they did for Mary Landrieu last time around?

[Rosenkreutz]

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

>> Terrible news.

I think there are 4 Republican counties still reporting, 3 Democrat counties and 2 even counties.

[BigSkyFreeper]

And I might also add, the Democrats historical track record with regards to Iran and North Korea isn't something to feel good about either, despite all this hollow rhetoric they were saying on the campaign trail.