Posted on 11/08/2006 5:53:30 AM PST by arroyob
RECOUNTS [Byron York]
Unless something unforeseen happens, we're looking at a recount in Virginia, where the law calls for a state-paid recount if the difference between candidates is one-half of one percent or less.
According to numbers on the Virginia State Board of Elections website, Webb and Allen are separated by 8,359 votes, out of a total 2,361,441 cast a difference of about one-third of one percent.
The situation is different in Montana, where Burns and Tester are separated by 3,113 votes out of 341,891 cast.
There, the recount standard is one-quarter of one percent, so if those totals hold up, a state-paid recount is unlikely. Posted at 8:26 AM
judicial committees.
Democratic Tester
195,235 49%
Republican Burns
(Incumbent)
193,506 48%
Libertarian Jones
10,188 3%
99% precincts reporting - Updated: 10:57 a.m. ET
More: Senate Results | Senate News | Montana Results
(map info) County results tables
The Republicans have already driven off their libertarian core, thus guaranteeing yesterday's fiasco, by their own antics (drunken-sailor spending, the Schiavo circus). Thus, the Democrats didn't need to lift a finger -- when you enemy is self-destructing, just kick back and pop some corn.
Hopefully, yesterday's clue-by-four to the skull will lead to that realization. If so, they may recover a bit in 2008. If not... well, the Federalists are no more, the Whigs are no more, and there is no law of history that prevents the Republicans from following in their footsteps.
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