Where are yall getting your numbers from. Hope you are right!
realjohnboy wrote:Where are yall getting your numbers from. Hope you are right!
Jumping back and forth between BBC, CNN and MSNBC!
webb pulls ahead with 98% reporting...
Well, some 2.3 million votes in Virginia, and the difference is going to be less than one percent - so it's going to be a recount.
My numbers are a little more conservative. The election numbers I see is is Allen by 1800.
Speculation that DEMS might be as much as +40 in the House
realjohnboy wrote:My numbers are a little more conservative. The election numbers I see is is Allen by 1800.
CNN has Webb ahead by a couple of thousand votes. With the remaining precincts being Democratic areas.
Jim Webb (DEM) - 1,143,144 votes - 49%
George Allen (REP)* - 1,140,879 votes - 49%
Virginia
Re Arizona's JD Hayworth, one of the bloggers at TNR's The Plank points out an interesting connection (Ebrown, you reading this?); "Totally rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric didn't cut it this year".
She says this because its not just Hayworth -- in North Carolina's 13th, Incumbent Democrat Brad Miller has trounced Republican Vern Robinson, who apparently ran on such anti-immigrant rhetoric as well, 64% to 36%. (Last time, the Democrat won 59% to 41%.)
An easy addition to the list, of course, would be the Republican anti-immigration conservative Randy Graf in Arizona's 8th. When he won the primaries, the national Republican leadership drew its hands from the race, arguing that Graf was too radical for the district. Sidestepping chicken/egg arguments, it seems to have been vindicated; CNN has called the race as a Democrat win, and with 66% of precints reporting, Graf's Democratic rival Gabrielle Giffords is leading 55% to 41%.
The politics of anti-immigrant rhetorics could still score one win though. In Georgia's 8th, Democratic incumbent Jim Marshall's seat - one of only two rated as possible Republican take-over on the eve of the elections - is contested by Mac Collins, who emphasised illegal immigration heavily in his campaign. At the moment, Marshall is leading Collins by 51% to 49%, with 86% of precincts reporting.
(On a related note, in neighbouring Georgia's 12th, the Republicans still have a very good chance of taking that second possible House seat from the Dems as well - with 92% of precincts in, Democratic incumbent John Barrow and Republican challenger Max Burns are tied at 50/50%, a thousand votes separating them.)
Ha! When did this happen?
The Democrats gained a House seat in Kansas!
They already had the urban seat of Kansas City, but now we're talking the mixed district of Republican incumbent Jim Ryun. And it had been rated "Republican Favored" by Congressional Quarterly. CNN has called it for Dem challanger Nancy Boyda.
Kansas - U.S. House District 2
Nancy Boyda (DEM) 99,064 51%
Jim Ryun (REP) (incumbent) 90,827 47%
86% of precincts reporting
Ryun had won in 2004 with 56% to 41%. He was one of the most conservative members of the House.
Another one of those voted out!
Fox calls Tenn for Corker.
Basically leaves Virginia, Montana and Missouri undecided:
Code:Virginia (99% of precincts reporting):
Jim Webb (DEM) 1,143,144 votes - 49%
George Allen (REP)* 1,140,879 votes - 49%
Montana (30% of precincts reporting):
Jon Tester (DEM) 72,306 votes - 54%
Conrad Burns (REP)* 58,994 votes - 43%
Missouri (69% of precincts reporting):
Jim Talent (REP)* 733,550 votes - 50%
Claire McCaskill (DEM) 685,381 votes - 47%
33,000 votes to be tallied in Fairfax county which should be heavy Webb territory.
nimh wrote:There are now three states already that have been called as voting for a raise in the
minumum wage. And not obviously blue states either: Ohio, Montana and Missouri
Arizona and Nevada have also voted to raise the minimum wage
And - the big one - arguably the most important ballot initiative of them all - South Dakotans have voted down the law that would ban all abortions, even in case of incest or rape. With 63% of precincts reporting, the "no's" have it 55% against 45%, and CNN has already called the outcome.
There's also a piece of bad news though:
nimh wrote:Banning gay marriage was also approved in South-Carolina (77% in favour with 69% of precincts in) and Tennessee (81% in favour with 49% in).
But keep an eye out on the ban-gay-marriage ballot initiative in Wisconsin. If any of these anti-gay marriage initiatives fails, it should be that one.
Alas, the Wisconians have also voted to ban gay marriage, with a comfortable margin even it seems (58% to 42% with 56% of precincts reporting).
old europe wrote:Basically leaves Virginia, Montana and Missouri undecided:
Are you up again or still up?
nimh wrote:Alas, the Wisconians have also voted to ban gay marriage, with a comfortable margin even it seems (58% to 42% with 56% of precincts reporting).
Oddly, perhaps in the slipstream of the abortion ballot question which roused the more libertarian instincts of the state's residents, it is in South-Dakota that a gay marriage ban still has the best chance of being defeated. It's very close so far, 52%/48%, with almost two-thirds of the precincts reporting.
nimh wrote:Are you up again or still up?
Hah! Look who's talking! Didn't you say you have to go to work today?
(still up)
Yep, I do still have to go to work today... :wink:
Luckily my work day doesnt start till 11 AM, so I might still get 2-3 hours sleep..
Anti-war candidate, former Orleans singer John Hall, who won the Democratic primaries against the preference of the national Democratic leadership (which had groomed a former Republican for the role), won the House seat of New York's 19th. He eeked out a narrow victory against incumbent Sue Kelly in the well-to-do suburbian district:
U.S. House - District 19
John Hall (DEM) 90,019 51%
Sue W. Kelly (REP)* 86,491 49%
97% of precincts reporting
Well. I have go to work, too. Means I'm off to bed now! G'night!
(Gosh, I really get carried away by this politics stuff.)
