Posted on 11/10/2006 1:08:13 PM PST by madison10
Eight House races remain without winners after Tuesday's election, with Republican incumbents in tight contests to keep their seats and state officials not rushing to end the dispute.
Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, is ahead in her central Ohio race by 3,536 votes. In the Columbus, Ohio- area, elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18.
Elections officials in that district will start counting Nov. 19.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin, who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.
Of the eight uncalled races, only one _ Joe Courtney's challenge to Republican Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut _ gives a Democratic challenger the lead. In that race, Courtney is ahead by a scant 166 votes. Almost a quarter of a million votes were cast.
A Thursday recount in Hebron, Conn., gave Simmons one more vote. Recounts were scheduled in 74 other towns through the weekend.
In Florida, a recount is set to begin Wednesday in Rep. Katherine Harris' former district. Republican Vern Buchanan has a 373-vote lead and has declared victory over Democrat Christine Jennings. The Associated Press has declared Buchanan the winner.
In Georgia, first-term Democratic Rep. John Barrow, facing a rematch against former Republican Rep. Max Burns, leads by fewer than 600 votes.
In Washington state, the count in a suburban Seattle district was delayed by heavy flooding, leaving incumbent Republican Rep. Dave Reichert ahead of challenger Darcy Burner three days after voting ended.
Other races that remain undecided include North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes' campaign against Larry Kissell, separated by 449 votes; and New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson's race, where Democrat Patricia Madrid trails by about 1,600 votes.
I don't live in JD's District, so I can't say for sure. From what I've heard his district has been becoing increasingly Democratic, and he's been on the Donks' "Hit list" for a while now.
There were numerous ads on the radio down here in Tucson (JD is up in the Phoenix area) attacking JD and Dubya for the high cost of Medicare. Basically saying that "JD and the President conspired to kill old people."
JD is a fine man - they are counting absentee ballots and I hope he wins.
Gee, you mean like Harry Reid's NV land deals or the 90 K William Jefferson, D had hidden in his freezer that the MSM refuses to report??
http://www.restoringamerica.org/Government/45_goals_of_communism.htm
bttt
You guys are responding incorrectly. The voters already were measured. Corruption scandals is why they voted as they did.
The point is not to complain that the media didn't cover Dem scandals. The point is . . . do not waste time on philosophy. Nothing philosophically needs to change.
The only thing that has to change is run squeaky clean candidates and focus only on corruption to the exclusion of other issues. Whether or not we had clean candidates who lost does not matter. The aura of the entire day was one tainted by a perfect storm of GOP corruption.
Wasting time on any other issue is counter productive. It does not matter what you think is important because there is no need to rely on your opinion. We have the data in the exit polls. The voters have ALREADY SAID it was all about corruption.
Dwelling on other things is just columnists hitting deadlines.
Do you have an updated place for results? The only results I can find show Buchanan ahead about 373 votes, but the only place I find this on the state site doesn't give the percentage of votes counted or anything about absentee or early or provisional votes. Actually it doesn't even give a date for those numbers only that it's the 'unofficial' results of the Nov. 7 vote.
The minute he became the official Republican nominee, the MSM would turn on him. Every skeleton in his closet, and it's full of them, would be dragged out. All in the best interest of the country, doncha know /sarcasm
Good to see they have their priorities straight.
>> Anyone notice that the dems aren't conceding gracefully like the republicans did?
Republicans are conceding out of fear Schumer will run a credit report.
So the gay marriage amendment still may pass.
Nazi Pelosi has said much worse about a sitting president and yet that parenthetical phrase is never used about HER.
BTTT!
Yeah, Mr. Elliot, that word would be "vaunted," unless you were trying to say lots of folks jumped over the OSU-UM football game - which, come to think of it, wouldn't be such a bad idea...
There's a fine line between being "graceful" and being a pansy - and entirely too many Republicans are ont he wrong side of that line.
Make a big difference if one of those seats was yours.
I heard some of those - the repubs betray their base by expanding medical coverage for old folks, and the ads focused on what was NOT given!
It was kind of like, "They've started paying for my house, but won't pay for my car - and I NEED my car. Throw those bums out!"
Greedy bastards.
Question: what are the top 20 most likely "RETAKE" seats?
We had 232 last Congress. As for take back seats, how about all of them?
It's not looking that good for Hayworth. Another 8,000 votes, and he's only made up a little ground
Hayworth: 72,124
Mitchel : 77,907
Severin : 4,953
Total: 154,984
I think after Thursday they were at 146,000, so it's about 9000 more votes, and Hayworth is now at 5883, which is closer than the 5923 (i think) he was yesterday, but only another 50 votes.
So at the moment while they ARE getting thousands of extra votes, whichever ones they are counting are breaking pretty evenly, and Hayworth needs to find a batch that goes hard for him.
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