Much-vaulted?
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.
It might but it seems to be taking forever to count these ballots.
We get those ballots a few weeks before the actual election so you'd think they would count them as they came in.
We had 232 last Congress. As for take back seats, how about all of them?"
WE lost several seats that were "Kerry" districts in 2004. I'd assume they would be hard to take back.
OTOH TX-22, Delay's seat, is now occupied by a Democrat who 'won' with 49% against the GOP write-in getting 46%! This is a 60% GOP district and a credible candidate will beat Lampson.
So that is a top-tier "Take Back" seat. My question is: What are the others?
"Texas CD 23 has a runoff sometime in Dec."
That's Bonilla, Rep. We better not lose that in the first place!!!
All three Indiana seats, especially IN-9.
IN-9? Is that Hostettler's seat?
I dont understand why he was so vulnerable suddenly to begin with.
That was Sodrel's seat and is heavily Republican. In a presidential year we can take it back.
"at some point, if we don't fight the fraud in these provisional ballots (I am convinced this cost us Allen's senate seat), then we go into every national election with a built in Dem advantage everywhere."
Built-in bias because
1. Fraud and letting illegals vote (Loretta Sanchez, Landreiu)
2. Media bias that gives the Dems free campaign publicity
3. Our unwillingness to sink to their tactics
(one minor example; our signs in local races are often stolen, defaced or damaged by the Democrats)
4. We lose gracefully and try bipartisanship, they take to the streets and stay angry and bitter and obstructionist ... and take that energy to defeating us next time.
Some guesses:
TX-22
AZ-08
AZ-5?/JD Hayworth's district
FL-16/Foley (run Negron again)
FL-22 Shaw
CO-7 ?
IN-8,9,2
IL-6 Melissa Bean, again
Defeat Space Cadet in Ney's district
PA - Retake Weldon seat, melissa hart seat
Retake Pombo seat
Try again in the Barrow seat in Georgia.
What's libel?
What she said about Murtha (true)
or what the press said about her (false)?
If libel was a crime, we could get convictions of NYTimes, WashPost, AP, CNN, ABCNBCCCBS on RICO charges related to committing libel against the GOP and Bush on a massive scale.
Happened to my sister-in-law...the sign stealing. You have no idea how I restrained myself, I didn't steal a sign to burn until after the election. The only way to win at politics is to play dirty it seems.
I'd like an Indiana freeper's assessment of Ellsworth and the other winners in Indiana districts.
Apparently Ellsworth ran as someone more conservative than many a Republican, and managed to win.
Will he still be tolerated in his district after he makes the left-winger Pelosi speaker? In a lot of these districts, we will have to tie the Democrat to the leftwing Democrat leadership - Waxman, Rangel, Conyers, etc.
Absolutely; however, if we get them all, the R's will only need 13 seats to capture Congress in 2008. The D's needed 14 this go-round. Every seat counts - I'd rather have the most R incumbents we can possibly have. 13 seats is VERY doable, especially if Hi(t)llary is at the top of the D ticket - can you imagine the Conservative turnout to defeat her? And only one Senate seat to pick up?
Look, the D's cannot overcome any veto - (we'll finally see one - YAY!!!). We still have power; but our hopes of a conservative Supreme Court are unfortunately over. Expect ALL past-due ancient liberals on the SCOTUS to retire in the next two years; the nearly due may hold out until *hopefully* (for them) Hi(t)llary is President in January 2009...
Reagan80
They don;t say if Barbara Cubin is a Democrat, but since she threatened to slap someone< I;m guessing that she is.<P.Did Chris Shays win or lose?
Much-vaulted?
Barbara Cubin is a Republican...and don't believe everything you read! That said, I don't know anything about this story. Since it wasn't widely distributed throughout the MSM before election day to make all Republicans look bad, I'm guessing that this story is completely out of context or an outright lie...
Reagan80
Yes.
When you are right, you are right. When 2008 comes, I believe we can achieve a filibuster proof US Senate.
All we have to do is to get rid of the following rinos, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Warner, Lamar Alexander, Libby Dole, Smith from Oregon, that bridge to nowhere Stevens guy, Chuck Hagel, and Sununu, Domenici and McConnell in the republican primaries, then we need to hold all 21 of our seats and then we need to win 11 out of the 12 democrat seats (Arkansas: Pryor (D) Delaware: Biden (D) Illinois: Durbin (D) Iowa: Harkin (D) Louisiana: Landrieu (D) Massachusetts: Kerry (D) Michigan: Levin (D) Montana: Baucus (D) New Jersey: Lautenberg (D) Rhode Island: Reed (D) South Dakota: Johnson (D) West Virginia: Rockefeller (D) )
That makes 60 for us !
Go Reichert, go!
Interesting dichotomy between the way the Republicans are handling these close races as opposed to the way the Democrats have/would.
HOw funny, chuck schumer and reid were demanding that bush tell allen to concede, yet these dems won't at all.
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