Fitz

FITZ!!!

TESTER!!!!

ROOTZ!!!

Chris Bowers has called it for Tester.

WOW

Yeah, voting!

Early results look like low turnout in CA. Could be disenchantment with Repug’s or the Dem Gov race. Going to be a long night.

Tester, one, two, three?

-GSD

The Roy Moore faction of the GOP in AL is not fairing to well. The candidates that backed his agenda for AL Supreme Court seats are all losing very badly.
Hooray!!!

My Gawd… If you look at the Missoulian link, the Dems have good showings up and down the ticket. This is MONTANA? I thought Republicans were shoo-ins for nearly everything there.

OT- Oh shit, I just now watched that horrific Ann Coulter interview with Matt Lauer and for the love of all things human that has to be the most asshat crazy and despicable thing ever seen. I want to rip my heart out! She’s fucking insane! Who in their right mind would line up behind that spew?

Dr. Bob –

I lived in Alabama for a good bit.

I recently saw an analogy post by an Alabamian calling Pet Rock Judge Roy Moore “the turd that won’t flush.”

Conjure. We’ve all been there. A floater that keeps popping back up to the surface of the bowl…

meta #8:
Apparently a lot of whacked out Repug’s. How did she get out of NYC after saying that?

meta-

I saw the mAnn Coulter interview this morning.

My response, to today@nbc.com:
_____

Your disgusting waste of airtime with that absurd, deliberately insulting demagogue Ann Coulter is the last straw for me. I’ve always watched the Today Show in the morning. No more. I’ll switch to CNN. You cannot be serious. She’s nothing more than Michael Savage in drag and on PCP. The bitch is clinical, and you are complicit in spreading her political raw sewage.

Who’s that guy with my haircut in the picture at the top of this post?

Dr. Bob, it’s just so thoroughly sick and misanthropic. I thought I was pretty jaded, but to sit there in her little black dress and say that crap in NewYork, it was just beyond belief. Why the venom toward 911 widows? Because they endorse and vote Democratic? These people are getting really, really desperate. And it ain’t pretty.

Jane, how is Kobe faring?

rwcole, what’s up?

-Disgraced Judgie Wudgie Roy “Batshit” Moore, done in Alabama.

-Damaged goods Republican Senator Conrad Burns(R-Abramoff $) is the candidate in Montana.

-Looks like outsider and netroots man of the hour Tester takes the cake to fight Damaged Goods Burns.

-Bill Weld(R-Cirrhosis) has dropped out of race for NY Gov…..

-Dem. Spitzer is leading by 50 points in NY.

Not a bad day, so far.

Now fingers crossed for Francine.

-GSD

The Left in the West link goes to the Missoulian.

Isn’t this the correct one? http://www.leftinthewest.com/

BobbyG #9:
I was in MBA school in AL at the time they were having the Moore hearings. It amazed me that otherwise rational people would defend him like they did.
His candidate for Supreme Court justice actually has gone on record and said something to the effect of: If the U.S. Supreme Court renders a ruling that is a bad ruling, the State Supreme court should ignore that ruling! Huh?
I guess a lot of people there have never heard of chaos theory. Or maybe they have since they overwhelmingly rejected that view.

BobbyG – GREAT! The clincher is Matt Lauer, in his programmed TV announcer voice, saying at the end: “Well, thanks Ann Coulter. Always a pleasure.” WTF?

Got EPU’d on the last thread, but I thought this was still appropriate for this thread:

GSD at 61: The NYT’s article had this to say about Katherine Harris:

She is especially animated when the topic turns to animals, including the guide dog she plans to train starting in November. She will care for the dog for 18 months, spending nearly all her waking hours with it. “You can’t let them sleep in bed with you,” Ms. Harris said. “Which is going to be harder on me than the dog.”

There are so many ways to go with that comment, but I’ll try to be gentle *g*.

Katy baby, didn’t anyone tell you that when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas? LOL!

mAnn Coulter’s shameless schtick this morning was an utterly calculated marketing ploy, one in which the Today Show was complicit. She’d love nothing better than to provoke a public cat fight with one or more of the widows. She is SCUM.

Saw Coulter on Fucker Tarlson – she appeared to be over-medicated. Not on top of her game, such as it is, at all.

Sounds like South Dakota went with the more progressive democratic candidate for governor, Jack Billion. He’s strongly against the rapists’ rights law.

It feels like something’s in the air, the liberals are coming alive across the land.

meta – lots of reactions to that one on an earlier thread . . .

Looks like about 12% of Democrats who cast absentee ballots in San Diego cast them for a Feinstein opponent…. not a great protest, but it will be interesting to see how the statewide numbers turn out.

Anybody heard anything about Marcy vs. Jane?

Dr. Bob -

I have long noted the utter hypocrisy. Moore claimed long and loud that the feds had NO jurisdiction over him and his Pet Rock — all while filing action after action WITH those very venues (that he deemed irrelevant). Had he gotten simply ONE favorable ruling, he’d have lamely waved it ad nauseum as vindication. Most people simply do not get the irony. If they’re irrelevant, SIMPLY IGNORE THEM. And take what comes. That he would not says everything.

You get my point?

TeddySanFran @ 26

FWIW, with just the absentees counted, it’s Jane 69.5% and Marcy 30.5%.

Don’t know how much to read into that, as we’re only talking about roughly 8600 votes in all so far.

rwcole -
apparently my daughter is running around with her hair on fire and promises to call back around 9:30 CA time

anyone, the AG race in NY ?

I will ask again. Who is the poster boy at the top of this thread?

Damn, if you’re not the actual post-er, you can’t get arrested around here, can you?

T Rex-

believe that is John Tester his own self

Woof, woof. Say no more.

-GSD

Here’s a site for Busby results.

http://challengernet.com/Home/…..fault.aspx

Anyone have anything better?

I think it is John Tester, TRex.

Three cheers to Alabama Dems for going with Lucy Baxley instead of indicted Dem Siegleman(D-Burns of Montana).

Bonus quote:

“Among the Democrats, Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley won with 214,234 votes, or 60 percent, against Siegelman with 127,275 votes, or 36 percent. Siegelman spent Election Day standing trial on corruption charges stemming from his single term as governor.”

-GSD

Thanks! I was just wondering.

From the Des Moines Register: “With nearly 70 percent of the vote in, Chet Culver held a slim edge over Michael Blouin and Ed Fallon in Iowa’s Democratic primary to determine who would face Republican Jim Nussle for governor. Updated 10:45 pm”
Name Party Votes Pct
Culver , Chet Dem 43,105 37.87
Blouin , Mike Dem 39,295 34.52
Fallon , Ed Dem 29,982 26.34
Mohamed , Sal Dem 1,439 1.26
The winner will face the execrable Jim Nussle, chairman of the House Budget Committee. If he can be sent into retirement it will be a happy day indeed, and Culver polls the strongest against him.

TRex @ 30

“All our circuits are busy at the moment, but we at the NSA value all of our surveilence suspects. A service representative will be with you shortly. If you would prefer to turn yourself in at one of our in-person customer centers, that is certainly acceptable. Thank you for holding.”

repost from last thread:

Here in Alabama, the happiest return I saw was Gov. Riley getting about 4 times the vote of Roy Moore, of “Roy’s Rock” fame.

BTW, my good friend Lynndie Maddox, working for ACLU, was responsible for removing the rock, and I just sent her a congratulatory e-mail. Considering her stance cost her her private practice because preachers were preaching a boycott of her from the pulpits, and she had to move from her home in Brewton to get away from death threats to herself and her dog (one of which came by phone from a local church “Fellowship Hall” -the idiots neglected to *67) she must feel particularly vindicated right about now.

Also, Dem candidate for AG John Tyson won over the flake that was denying the holocaust.

BobbyG #27:
Crystal.
Maybe the veil to rational thought is being lifted. Those little tin foil hats have to fall off sometime!

Oh yes, GSD, I voted for Baxley. Siegleman is an embarrassment.

Peterr at 8:58.
LMAO.

Congrats Sunny.

Things are fleshing out pretty well tonight.

Even though I would rather face Joke Judge Moore in the election..it tells me that the wingnut base is pretty small, even in old Alabammy.

-GSD

GSD, good luck with Busby. I’m a bit too far east to keep up tonight.

“Why do all those gooper rethuglicans hate Freedom?”

G’Nite!

Ah am loving me some organic wheat farmer Senator from Montana!!!

CA Secty of State -8:56pm

Busby -12,036
Bilbray – 11,071

back with a link and any Winograd #’s

Ugly things happen when evangelical ministers become lobbyists and conspire with exterminators who have become Congressmen!

Retirement Account of DeLay’s Wife Traced
With Disclosure, Family’s Known Benefits From Ties With Lobbyist Exceed $490,000

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; Page A04

A registered lobbyist opened a retirement account in the late 1990s for the wife of then-House Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and contributed thousands of dollars to it while also paying her a salary to work for him from her home in Texas, according to sources, documents and DeLay’s attorney, Richard Cullen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01320.html

You know, whenever a politician has someone they refer to as “chief political and spiritual advisor”, it’s a bad sign.

Take a sec to go to http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06…..nted=print

and read, if nothing else, the last two sentences.

Get ready, punaise, high soft one right over the plate, babe.

cbl @ 46

You’re confusing three different election returns there. There is a special election to fill the Dukestir’s seat, and then there are primary elections for the places on the November ballot. The numbers you quote are for the Republican and Democratic primaries, not the special election that puts the two of them against each other.

In the special election, the absentee ballots give about a 3100 vote lead, and no one I’ve looked at has any sense for what it means. Yet.

right on, Jon Tester!

OOOPS . . .

It’s Bilbray with the 3100 vote lead, folks. Sorry about leaving the name out like that.

Peterr
Thanks for the clarification at 49
So correct me if I am wrong but if Busby looses tonight(goddess forbid) she has another chance in November?

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/5000.htm

I’m a very inept lurker, but this is where I’m getting info on Busby – the Ca State elections office. Lots of results for all counties! (Hope this link works!)

CA Secty of State -9:01 pm

36th
Harman – 5981
Winograd – 2629

*believe there is a voting machine kerfluffle in one of the precincts – rw ?

Secty of State

Good Diary at MyDD — I whole heartedly agree. Joe Leiberman’s voting record isn’t bad — but it’s everything else he does wrong.

Why this ex-DLC staffer thinks Joe must go

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/6/6/124624/6287

I have been reading the material of both sides of the debate over the primary battle between Joe Lieberman and Ned Lemont. As someone that worked at the DLC, I should be outraged that leftie groups like Moveon.org and DFA are pushing for the “purge” of Joe. The whole debate is juvinile, or should I say Joe-vinile. Yet I would like to see Joe go, and almost none of it has to do with reasons either side is pushing.

To sum my view in seven words: Joe is a politican with bad instincts. That is my main problem with him. Everything he supports turns to crap and Democrats would be well advised to treat him as another haplessly comic character, George Costanza: do the exact opposite of what Joe would do or suggest. Having him in the Senate as a national figure creates the temptation for Democrats to listen to him and shot themselves in the foot again in 2006 and 2008.

Jon Tester is probably very grateful to his campaign staff; he carries the list on a clip-board that belongs to him.

…(missing: long story/set up)…

inappropriate discordant conclusion:

Tester Roster Own

Lotuslander @48 – hilarious. It’s hard to even pick out one quote. They’re all so remarkable.

Although I have to confess, I might stop my car to help a turtle cross the highway too. Maybe.

I was wondering if the CA SoS link was valid. I wasn’t sure if these were primary results that hadn’t been updated yet, or who was on today’s ballot.

Thanks Peterr

I was trying not to get my hopes up about all these races but the Tester win is really encouraging.

However the turnout in my district in Burbank, CA was really low. If it was that low in Busby’s district it could be a problem.

When I walked into the polling site I was the only voter and the women who was supposed to check off my name had dozed off. One of the other poll workers who for lack of anything else to do had met me at the door and escorted me to her table had to gently snap his finger to wake her up. One positive sign was that the two people who came in while I was voting were both non-partisan voters who requested a democratic ballot.

PerryA –

No, you are a very ept lurker!!!

Welcome, and post again, anytime!!!

From CA Sec. Of State results or CA-36 district:

0.0% ( 0 of 402 ) precincts reporting as of Jun 6, 2006 at 9:06 pm

Democratic

* Jane Harman 5,981 69.5%
Marcy Winograd 2,629 30.5%

Here, too, it looks like absentees so far …

Yes, Lobstergirl, I have m’seff — we got big gnarly-beaked ones down here. Always approach and grab it from ’round back, doncha know.

Not good:

Data Theft Hit 80% Of Active Military
Concerns Raised Beyond Identity

By Ann Scott Tyson and Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; Page A01

Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel — including nearly 80 percent of the active-duty force — were among the data stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs analyst last month, federal officials said yesterday, raising concerns about national security as well as identity theft.

“ept” comes right before “EPU’d” in the FDL glossary

PerryA at #53. That site seems to only have the results for the Primary. I’ve looked all over that site, and can’t find the results for the Seat to replace Cunningham.

Somebody above posted this link from the San Diego Registrar’s office:

http://www.sdvote.org/election/congress.xml

About half way down is first the election for Cunningham’s seat [U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT - (RUN-OFF)], then the Primary for Republicans (U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT – REPUBLICAN)and finally the Primary for Democrats (U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT – DEMOCRATIC).

PerryA — thanks for the link. I’ll put it in the post.

I really don’t expect Winograd to be Harman, just scare her into doing her job. Any kind of showing for Winograd at all is excellent.

Busby we’ll have to wait and see. But Tester? Matt Singer was saying that in the final days the DSCC came in with $$ for Morrison. This is a total kick in the as to Schumer and all the establishment, don’t-rock-the-boat, DC Dems who have been trying to marginalize and defeat progrssive candidates across the country.

BOO YAH!!!

Thank you, PerryA!

Jane, how sweet is it to see the DSCC get a lesson in people-powered politics?

GSD #43:
It would have been scary if Moore had garnered enough support to defeat Riley. I hope Lucy’s ready.
Does this mean a defeat for all things crazy right wing? Or will they just have to go back in the closet (pun intended)?

Results for Iowa just updated:

Culver lead widens slightly…

Governor Dem – Primary %u2014 1,458 of 1,876 precincts reporting (78%)
Chet Culver [d] 46,236 38%
Mike Blouin [d] 42,109 35%

Well, if you toss in the results to last November, it sure looks like things are turning against Bush and the Republican machine.

The Busby election will be the real harbinger.

Also, it will also put Repubs into full on attack mode if they lose too…that is good and bad.

-GSD

It’s starting to look like the San Diego County elections server is cracking under the strain of all those people trying to find out who will win in CA-50. The thing hasn’t updated in an hour.

Pach 69 — that is the best damn news I have heard in AGES. I am positively TICKLED at the thought.

Ed, which one is Vilsack’s boy?

-GSD

op99,

“Saw Coulter on Fucker Tarlson – she appeared to be over-medicated. Not on top of her game, such as it is, at all”

He should have invited Laura Ingram, Lucianne Goldberg and Paula Jones too and made it a reunion show, oh well.

Dr. Bob, some Alabama dems are going to vote for Riley because he got the right-wing all riled up a while ago with his efforts at imposing a progressive tax policy. The effort failed, but a lot of Repubs around here still spit whenever they hear his name.

L’girl 64 — yes, that’s what I meant earlier this evening (some thread or other), about so much for Chimpy’s bounce. What the economy won’t bite him with, the 100% lying incompetence will. And I’d be 100% happy about that but for its threat to every one of us. (Global us.)

I looked at the absentee results in CA-50. Bilbray can’t be happy with the trend, especially if the right wing independent stays at around 4.5 to 5%. That could be the deciding factor.

Maybe a MT win for Tester will show the DSCC that the people want REAL change in DC, not just another party hack that won’t stand up to the Repug machine.

not to forget the Pombo-rama in central CA (CA-11):

IIRC, McNerney is the grass-roots Dem, while Filson is the tool.

McCloskey is the good-guy retired moderate GOP (no, really – there once was such a thing) from the Bay Area who moved eastward to take on the toxic Pombo.

Democratic

Stephen Nigel Filson 4,235 28.7
Stevan Thomas 2,775 18.8
Jerry McNerney 7,725 52.5

Republican

Thomas (Tom) A. Benigno 1,322 6.4
Paul N. “Pete” Mc Closkey, Jr. 6,438 31.2
* Richard W. Pombo 12,867 62.4

Ed N Sted 71
KCRG.com, click on election results. 39 to 34 with 91% of precincts in.

Coz 76 — barfbag warning next time, OK, sport?

Vilsack liked Blouin. Blouin is pro-life.

CA 11th Congress Dist. 9.16pm

McNerney – 7725
Filson – 4235

Pombo – 12,867
McCloskey – 6438

With 90% of precincts reporting, Chet Culver is maintaining his lead.

Governor Dem – Primary — 1,688 of 1,876 precincts reporting (90%)
Chet Culver [d] 52,358 38%
Mike Blouin [d] 46,835 34%

Ed N Sted is calling this one for Culver — definitely the more progressive of the two leading candidates. Now if I can just get Chris Bowers to see things my way :)

Source:

http://files.raycommedia.com/k…..em-Primary

Thank you, punaise. I was just scouring for that CA-11 info.

Punaise, how old is Pete McC by now, mas o menos? I liked him too, back when.

Golly Jane, I know how busy you are with primaries and You Tube and other crucial stuff, but just when are you and Christy going to fess up to being caught out badly and acting like complete suckers for the latest ginned up “al-Qaeda terrorist” scare in Toronto. Or even acknowledging as much.

In light of all the other bullshit cases that have rapidly fallen apart, from Padilla to the Tonowanda 5 to the Madrid train station bombing, for you and she to have taken the Cheneyacs bait so easily here is completely embarrassment and I’d like to see you both step up and admit that you were way premature in accepting the latest bullshit. This story is falling apart by the hour, as many of us knew it would from the very start. Afterall the past is prologue on these.

It’s clear that between the Toronto incident and the other bogus “terrorist” case this weekend in London where 2 Bangladeshi brothers were falsely accused (and one shot without cause or even warning), the powers that be are trying hard to create a renewed climate of fear of terrorism in N. Amnerica and Europe.

Now shouldn’t 2 smart ladies like yourselves being asking why, and what these “incidents” are trying to set up instead of acting like teenage cheerleaders for government chicanery and lies?

I really hate to say it but it’s becoming clear that FDL truly is a one-trick Doggie: you cover Plamegate very well, the rest is mediocre at best. Wise up.

WHO TV is Des Moines is now agreeing with Ed N Sted! Culver wins the Iowa Dem Gov. Primary:

Source:

http://www.whotv.com/Global/link.asp?L=53083

Between Morrison and Lieberman, Chuckie’s not looking like quite the genius, is he?

I remember when McCloskey ran as the anti-war Republican against Nixon in 1972. A very good man.

sunny #77:
I read something about that tax push. I beleive it said that the initiative would have helped low wage earners the most but it was overwhelmingly defeated. I thought it also mentioned something about it being a “religious/Christian” tax system. Odd!

Ed: want to post some quotes or links you think prove your point, either that this site somehow is discredited or whatever? Or is that beyond your ken?

Phil Angelides 318,252 47.1

Steve Westly 295,980 43.8

McCloskey was interviewed a little while ago by KCRA tv in Sacramento, said if Pombo gets the nomination he will work against him in the general. He said this Republican Party is corrupt. If they run the interview again, I’ll try to get the exact quote if anyone is interested.

Jane, is Ed at 89 a concern troll?

One trick pony my ass!

McCloskey comes off as a real decent person who cares about the integrity of the office. Sorry to see he isn’t making a stronger showing so far.

Yeah, McCloskey is a vanishing breed type of Republican.

Not many of them today would have written something like this.

Mad Dogs at 9:36 pm –

Nah, just the regular kind — the concern trollsies are a lot more subtle.

McCloskey was born in 1927. His statement of candidacy at petemccloskey.com is well worth reading. I cheered when I heard he was running against Pombo. A class act from another era.

1. I’m totally confused on earlier references, re Ca., that Busby is in a “primary”??…and she can run again in November?? What am I not understanding?

2. Go Tester!! Damn good job.

3. Food for thought, re: Tester….would there be any benefit, or any sense, in contacting the DL-whatever, and demanding that they now FULLY fund Tester for the general election?

Ghostman

Linda R #96 – that’s good news about McCloskey. Will love to see him all over California talking about how corrupt Pombo and the republican party are. He’s so well respected – don’t know why he couldn’t take Pombo down in the primary tonight, though.

McCloskey is almost 78 or 79–born in 1927.

Thanks, Susan. Wow — challenging for Congress at 79. When the firebell rings, the old dog’s ready to go.

i.e. Toronto incident:
I saw on MSNBC tonight that some “unnamed” source said that a homegrown terrorist group was likely to hit the U.S. before the end of the year. I’m not buying it.
Roves plan:
1. Bash Gay Marriage.
2. Fear, Fear, Fear.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2.
Next thing you know everytime bad news gets aired about the Bush Admin the DHS will raise and lower the terror warning level just like 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_McCloskey

McCloskey also wrote something called
The Endangered Species Act

102, it’s a special election for CA-50, given the timing of Cunningham’s departure. The primary for the special election was 2 months ago. It’s to fill the unexpired term. The seat will be up again in November for a full 2 year term.

There are two elections in the 50, one a “special” to fill Cunninham’s seat for the rest of this congress and then a primary which will have its general in November for the next (2007-2009) congress.

Everyone can vote for anyone in the special. Voters are restricted by party in the primary.

Ed is one of those terrier trolls who latch onto ONE tiny sentence or graf, and can’t let go.

Alabama made safe for heterosexuals to marry. FUCKING FINALLY!!!! I was worried I wouldn’t have a state to get married in.

I’m shopping for my Scarlett O’Hara dress tomorrow, WOOOOOOO!!!

Busby is in a special election caused by the removal of the sitting Republican Duke Cunningham to prison.

lotuslander 88

how old is Pete McC by now, mas o menos? I liked him too, back when.

78 or so, I believe. He’s been out of action for quite a while. His disgust for Pombo on environmental issues pulled him back in. Looks like a lost cause.

From a different angle, Pombo is a “worthy” (corrupt and evil) pinata for our side to bat around in the general election campaign. Go McNerny.

Ghostie,

Duke stepped down to do some hard time…leaving open his seat(In more than one way). The “special” election tonight is to fill the seat until the general election in Novemeber..

-GSD

CBS led with the Canadian story tonight — “plan to overrun the Houses of Parliament, take hostages, behead Harper.” QUITE vivid.

Here’s a good site for Busby results:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/…..votes.html

Billbray has a pretty good lead in the absentees. But am I correct in understanding that this is both a special election AND a run-off?

In other words, no matter who wins the special election, there will be another run-off in the fall?

Ghostman #102.
The CA 50 election has 2 components:
1. Fill Dukesters spot.
2. Determine the candidates for the Nov election to fill the spot for a full term.
Whomever wins today will only fill the spot until the regular election in NOV.

Ghostman –

This is both the regularly scheduled primary in the CA-50, and a special election to fill the vacant seat.

The Repugs couldn’t even get behind Bilbray, the winner of the special election primary — Bilbray is a lobbyist who doesn’t even live in the district, and he’s being challenged from the right by a total wing nut.

ok, 108, and 109, got it. Thanks.
Ghostman

Mad Dogs @ 9:36 pm (#97) – Jane, is Ed at 89 a concern troll?

My bet would be “moron”, but maybe he’ll surprise me.

Meanwhile, here are a couple of links to examine. The first is the “In Depth” page at CBC News:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/backgro…..index.html

The second is the Toronto Globe And Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com…..ional/home

It’s one of the newest stories, and had related articles and talkbacks along the right hand side of the page.

would love to know how much $$$ Pombo has collected and then I’d like to know how much he’s spent to date -

am thinking he’ll pull a DeLay and get folks to contribute $$$ he will subsequently dump in a defense fund when his sorry soon to be had ass is indicted

Is it me, or do tinfoil hats get itchy when election results don’t get updated for hours in one particular district?

Hey Ed 89 — I’ve never once written about the Canadian situation. Not. Once.

When are they going to send the smart trolls?

L’girl — don’t forget your chapeau, dollin’.

Susan in Iowa @ 101

how is your candidate doing tonight ?

When are they going to send the smart trolls?

They have smart trolls?

Jane 123, did you see “Le Jackal” around earlier? Same merde.

Jane, your Update #2 is linked to the CA-50 Primary race results, not the special election results. The San Diego Union-Tribune’s election page has a good set up for displaying these results. The run-off for the unexpired term is the first race they list, followed by the primaries for the regular election in November>

http://www.signonsandiego.com/…..votes.html

Get yer numbers, get ‘em while they’re hot . . .

Other Lisa #116: I’ve been watching CA-50 (Busby) over at kos and they say the results have been sitting stagnant at 11.4% for over an hour – that those are the absentees, which typically run heavy republican.

Apologize if I’m repeating something someone else has already posted.

Rethugs apparently predicted that Bilbray (sp?) would have a 10k lead in the absentees, so it looks good for Francine right now – that according to those who know more than I about CA-50. I’m in California but not in that area.

And off to yearly kos tomorrow afternoon! Yay! OT, but just had to say it…

lotuslander @ 9:49 pm (#127) – Same merde, different jour.

Cujo 130 — Oui oui oui, all the way home . . .

two worthy candidates, but looks like the incumbency is not in danger in Marin County (CA-6)

Democratic

Joseph Edward Nation 20,244 34.3
* Lynn Woolsey 38,656 65.7

From the great KOS:

MT-Sen: Jon Tester wins
by kos
Tue Jun 06, 2006 at 09:37:17 PM PDT

The AP has not called the race as of this post, but Morrison has conceded. It’s over.

What a great night. Not only did the best Democrat win, but so did Conrad Burns’ worst nightmare. Say hello to the next Senator from the great state of Montana:

Lotus Lotus Lotus…

Scarlett would never wear a chapeau: She would wear a bonnet. A great big, wide-brimmed bonnet, with ribbons.

129, I believe the key to CA-50 will be whether the right winger will get around 5%. That absentee result has to have the Bilbray people very nervous, because he should have been a lot stronger there. They needed to keep the guy on the right well below what he got. This race may be decided by under 1,000 votes, and I think that’s going to be the key factor.

Maybe Tester can body slam Bill Frist for his first official act in the senate….

Not very collegial, but it would be memorable.

-GSD

random OT:

Cujo359 – back to the dog analogy: Snarlin’ Arlen, the Saturday Night Massa Cur

lotuslander, been wondering: who is l’otu, and why do slander him/her?) :~)

“They have smart trolls”

Well, that’s the story on the ground but I’m hearing from my sources that the code isn’t even close to done, and what is done is extremely buggy. The beta test has been put on indefinite hold and the entire project is several million over budget. Can you say “vaporware”?

Ok, a Senate with Lamont representing the progressive East and Tester representing the progressive West would be outstanding, and a clear message of change to DC.

Ed N Sted #138:
LOL!!!
But :( he got confirmed by a spineless body of Senators.

Pach 139 – that would be more than a shot across the bow.

OT: Check out the great job some of our own readers have been doing on Bernard Calame at the NYT:

http://publiceditor.blogs.nyti…..0#comments

punaise: It would be a kick in the nuts and a body slam.

punaise @ 9:54 pm (#137) – Snarlin’ Arlen, the Saturday Night Massa Cur

LOL. A fitting nom de politique if ever there was one.

Whatever, L’girl — hate hats myself, so am no expert. Really resent having to wear a golf cap in windy winter.

The good news is, seeing’s how “lotus” is easier for everybody, I hereby adopt it: less is more.

And I sure do hope we get a read on Busby soon — nearly one ay-em here, an’ I’m blearing out.

Ed N Sted #138:
Apologies. Thought you were refering to “Groundbreaker”.
But still, post was LOL.

Are they counting chads in San Diego, or just trying to reprogram the Diebold hard drives? They’ve been stuck at 11% for 2 hours.

143, Mr. Pach: Will the Tester win alone send any type of wake-up call to the Democratic powers….or did they sorta “sleep” thru the Montana election…meaning Democratic leadership just wasn’t too revved up over this primary?
Ghostman

l’eau tousse!

(the water coughs)

Lobstergirl,
My thoughts exactly!

Punaise, you dawg! I no sooner receive my first ever punaise punning — full initiation into Firedoglake — the question becomes moot.

(Watching to see where he trots with that one.)

It’s between the bonnet and the veil – whichever is more hetero. Maybe a tiara, although tiaras seem kind of….queeny.

Lobstergirl @ 10:01 pm (#147) – The results on the SD county page are no longer for the absentee ballots only, but nothing’s changed in the CA-50 race since 8:20 PDT.

Ghostman:

The DC establishment backed Tester’s primary opponent, who just lost in a route.

Oh, and please, just call me “Pach.” Cheers!

Now, I’m off to bed. Long day tomorrow. Win CA-50 for me, if you please!

Roger that.

OT, but very big news from Vanity Fair.

http://www.vanityfair.com/feat…..0606fege02

Here’s the lead in:

“The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful “black propaganda” campaign with links to the White House.”

Named sources:

“The officials are Bearden; Colonel W. Patrick Lang, who served as the D.I.A.’s defense intelligence officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and terrorism; Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell; Melvin Goodman, a former division chief and senior analyst at the C.I.A. and the State Department; Ray McGovern, a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years; Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who served in the Pentagon’s Near East and South Asia division in 2002 and 2003; Larry C. Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who was deputy director of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993; former C.I.A. official Philip Giraldi; and Vincent Cannistraro, the former chief of operations of the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorism Center.”

Shouldn’t be long before we hear some returns in CA-50.

lotus – well, I was feeling kinda hangdog about that…didn’t mean to scare the lander right off you. you can pass it on to Gyro Gear Loose, for some lander gear.

Out here in CA, Diebold machines were de-certified, and a number of counties – including my own – had to go back to optical scanning equipment that they had quit using four years ago (IIRC the dates). One odd quirk of that situation is that while they have enough voting booths to handle this, somehow our county does not have enough scanners to read the ballots in every precinct. Thus, every voting place will bundle up their ballots and drive them to a central location for counting.

They have been warning us since last week that our county’s votes may not be completely tallied until noon tomorrow because of the shortage of machines to tally the ballots.

So there’s no need for the tin foil on slow results out here . . . but then again, I used to live in Chicago where ballots were counted creatively on a regular basis.

Tin foil? We don’t need no stinkin’ tin foil!

Dr. Bob,

I went back and re-read “Ed at 89″ and I’m still trying to figure out which post(s) he’s refering to. I’ve been pretty regular round here since the Canada story broke — I haven’t read absolutely everything — but maybe he confused something a commentor posted for something Jane or Christy wrote.

That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Canada story eventually did fall apart but — I know of no evidence that points that way at the moment. I base this opinion on nothing but shear cynicism so I could easily be wrong.

To return momentarily to the subject of low voter turnout, you might want to consider that some of us here in CA have had a series of elections – seemingly one every other week for the last year or so. In my district, we just got done with a bitterly-fought state senate Republican primary campaign to replace the guy who replaced Chris Cox when he went off to head the SEC. Oh, there’ll be a Dem running for this seat in the general: nice guy, snowball’s chance.

Direct democracy here means that the legislature will duck any issue that’s the least bit controversial, tax increases of any substance require a supermajority, so the budget’s always gridlocked and late. The ballot propositions practically equire a con law specialist to interpret, let alone judge. The political cynicism of many of my friends is both palpable and understandable.

Then there’s a simple matter of logistics: I vote by mail, but my wife doesn’t. In our precinct, the last three elections have been held in a different polling location each time.

Besides, other than the statewide offices, it’s unusual for Democrats to face off in primaries because so many districts have been gerrymandered to provide safe seats for one party of the other. In many cases the minority party is lucky to get some couageous soul to do the kamikaze run to try to draw campaign spending away from the few contestable districts.

Whatever, good luck to Francine and Marcie! And praise be that out phone will stop ringing with those accursed automated GOTV calls!!

cbl 125

Selden Spencer (IA4) was unopposed in the primary. It’s the incumbent R, Tom Latham, who will be a bumpy ride. I also liked Culver, who has apparently won.

One odd quirk of that situation is that while they have enough voting booths to handle this, somehow our county does not have enough scanners to read the ballots in every precinct. Thus, every voting place will bundle up their ballots and drive them to a central location for counting.

Same exact thing for our Chicago primaries in March. There were two optical scanners at the place I voted and neither of them was working. I said goodbye to my ballot and wished it well as it headed downtown.

Ooops again (gotta quit hitting “Submit Comment” so quickly . . .

I live in Alameda County, up in the SF Bay area, where Pete Stark (yea!) is our Rep. The CA-50 race is in San Diego, far to the south. In fact, it’s a whole ‘nuther country down there, not just a different county.

What’s going on up here with our machines may or may not be affecting the tabulations down south. I just know that every registrar of voters has been scrambling to figure out if their machines are still OK to use, and if not, how to make due until new ones arrive. (By Nov, they promise . . .)

SoS said probable update at 10:15 pacific

Chris Bowers at MyDD writes that he expects results starting about 10:30 PDT.

Peterr, it was kind of reassuring to vote on paper in Alameda County.
(Barbara Lee, CA-09 up here)

Live coverage on the NBC affiliate in San Diego

Ed N Sted #160:
I have no idea either. I just know the overview of the story from other sources. I did read somewhere (can’t find link) that this didn’t just happen overnight. The plot was discovered as early as last NOV but the Canadian authorities waited to thwart the whole scheme and all the players at one time. Don’t know if that is reliable, but LIS, I saw it somewhere!

rwcole, mommybrain, leslie in CA, John in Sacto, -

wth is going on out there – just came back from SD papers, all SD TV Stations, & LA TV -

nothing updated – the only posted figures in the Busby – short term race are the absentee ballots

same deal with Winograd

my daughter is working at Busby HQ, but is now on the road, driving non driving volunteers home – so she doesn’t know anything we don’t know

lobstergirl,

My personal best on this is the general election of 1984, when my ballot wasn’t counted until Thursday.

As the results kept rolling in on Tuesday night, there was this one odd collection of precincts that didn’t report and didn’t report and didn’t report. Lots of close races up and down the ballot, and lots of nervous folks all over the place.

Finally, on Wednesday evening, the ballots appeared. It seems that the little old lady election judge who collected all these ballots somehow got them wet before delivering them to be counted, so she took them all home to dry them in her oven. She was, according to the story, surprised that folks were so concerned . . .

At least that’s the story I remember.

Peterr. Oakland based Channel 2 news just did a story on Alameda County and said Alameda borrowed 60 opitical scanners from San Diego County to help since Alameda County is hand counting the ballots. Wonder if the 60 machines up here have anything to do with the 2 hours and no new news out of San Diego?

Punaise, please pass along the good news to Gyro then, will you? As for me, I be crashing.

A gracious good night to all, your li’l lotus be closing her petals for the night.

Niger documents latest :

http://www.vanityfair.com/feat…..0606fege02

People please! Wait till all the absetee ballots are in – the straights of Hormuz vote could swing the other way so it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Peterr,

When I voted today, I was given a choice of a traditional paper ballot or the shiney new Diebold touch machine. I chose the paper ballot.

I explained to the poll workers that I certainly support modernizing our voting systems but in a way that ensures the voting process can be verified and audited. They said “these machines are kept locked up at all times”. I said I thought that was an excellent idea and that I had very few concerns about local election officials — but was perhaps more concerned about what could happen at the point of manufacture. “Eventually”, I said “I’m sure we’ll have enough safeguards in place to ensure the integrity of the modernized voting process. But until that time comes I’m just much more comfortable with a paper ballot.”

They were quite happy to accomodate me. I voted and was quickly on my way.

Finally a small update (Precincts: 500
Counted: 66 Percentage: 13.2%):

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
21602 50.33%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
18560 43.24%

W. GRIFFITH – IND
1936 4.51%

PAUL KING – LIB
826 1.92%

Suzanne – Did KTVU say whether the scanners had any totals on the Bilbray/Busby race? We could just phone the results back to San Diego . . .

;)

‘night lotus. you’re on the glide path for a safe landing, with or without gear.

HC #176

Busby is slowly closing then, and Bilbray is staying steady. Not bad. Not great. Any word on which precincts the early totals are coming from?

Peterr, I was a’waiting for it but…

Dr Bob,

I guess I should also add that it would not surprise me to find the situation was pretty much the way the Canadian authorities have laid it out.

The world is full of nut bags. Why just this morning I saw Ann Coulter on TV…

My deathless prose re: CA voter burnout turnout apparently was so immoderate that it’s gone forever. As CA50 will be going down to the wire tomorrow morning, I’ll be going to bed.

For you election night insomniacs, keep the faith and pass the double-espresso. Or something.

Ed N Sted 175

Peterr,

When I voted today, I was given a choice of a traditional paper ballot or the shiney new Diebold touch machine. I chose the paper ballot.

paper, or plastic, sir?

i despise pombo and called McCloskey’s campaign very early on to volunteer. a nice person said there wasn’t anything i could do, that the public relations firm that was going to be managing the campaign didn’t have the offices set up yet. i strongly suspect his campaign may have gotten screwed over by some of those oh so winning saboteur dem consultants.

cbl- We have only the absentee ballots and 66 precincts out of 500 reported. Bilbray still with a 3,000 vote lead- mostly from the early absentee. No news!

Folks,

The flap over “no paper trail” from the Diebold machines is not some new scam to steal elections.

Am I the only one around here who ever voted on a “pull the lever” mechanical voting machine? No paper trail there, just a whole bunch of wheels that turned numbers, one at a time, whenever the lever was pulled. You had to trust that the election judges zeroed the machines out in the morning, and read them correctly at the end of the day.

That’s why there were always supposed to be judges from more than one party.

I’m not saying there’s nothing to worry about, only that this is an old, old, old game. We now return you to your regularly scheduled waiting.

LJ/Aquaria #179 – No, they don’t indicate which Precincts have reported.

Something very strange to look at are the primary vote totals compared to the special election totals:

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
Special Election – 21602 Votes
Primary – 11714 Votes

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
Special Election – 18560 Votes
Primary – 12999 Votes

Now, I realize that people can only vote in the primary for the party they are registered for in the State. But, still with exactly the same number of votes counted in each election, those are still wide gaps. What does it mean? Are the larger numbers in the Special Election an indication of the number of independents?

From report on KCRA tv, the exact quotes.

McCloskey: “I don’t think I really convinced the Republicans of San Joaquin County how bad the Republican House of Representatives is right now and how corrupt its become.”

Reporter: “McCloskey says if he loses he will back the Democratic candidate in the fall.”

Peterr @ 10:27 pm (#186) – The problem I have is that in many precincts, electronic voting machines will be replacing paper ballots and optical readers, which do have a built-in audit trail, and the electronic machines cannot be visually inspected to ensure that they are OK.

These are not insurmountable problems technically, but they are problems. With no way of auditing an election result, it would be ridiculously easy to create a voting machine that threw only a small percentage of votes to the party of one’s choice during a general election. The testing process they’ve implemented to detect such design errors/misfeatures doesn’t fill me with confidence.

The CA-50 page finally updated. No change from earlier reports.

Precincts Reporting 11.4% (It said 51% 10 minutes ago)
Bilbray 50.60%
Busby 42.88%

But 11.27% turnout!?! (or is that just absentee ballots?)

hungrycoyote – if you are non-partisan you can pick a party’s primary to vote in, if I’m not mistaken (in Calif)

Well, I’d love to stay til Busby is decidered but I do gotta get some sleep. Appears to have been a fairly good night thus far…

Another update (Precincts: 500 Counted: 100 Percentage: 20.0%):

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
24786 50.52%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
21269 43.35%

HC, I don’t know, but the Indy vote would make sense.

Latest results 100 of 500 precincts 20.0 percent:

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 24786 50.52%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 21269 43.35%

Hungrycoyote,

What it means is that in the primary, there are a bunch of folks who would rather have a different Republican than Bilbray – he’s got 9 opponents there, who have about 47% of the vote at this point.

For Busby, she’s only got one opponent, who’s only pulling 10.5%, so I’m guessing she and her troops weren’t pushing hard to get the primary numbers up.

And for both candidates, there is probably a certain amount of confusion about the whole thing, just as we’ve seen here. “Wait, didn’t I already vote for US Representative? You can’t vote for the same race again – remember how those butterfly ballots in Florida were tossed out because some people voted twice in the same race?”

Anyone down south care to fill us in on which insect inspired the design of your ballots?

IIRC it was the Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach County that designed those crazy ballots. I’m in Polk County in the middle of Florida and we’ve never had a problem reading our paper ballots.

Cujo – No arguments here about programming and the ease thereof. I’m just reacting to the “if there’s no paper, it must be a scam” meme.

Personally, I don’t see how any election equipment company can possibly get computerized equipment certified if they won’t allow the State to inspect the damn code that runs the machines!

You think that fighter plane builders can get away with telling the Pentagon, “Sorry, we can’t let you see the code that runs our plane’s radar system. It’s proprietary, you know.”?

U.S. Congress District 36
5.7% ( 23 of 402 ) precincts reporting as of Jun 6, 2006 at 10:32 pm

Democratic

Jane Harman 7,077 69.2%
Marcy Winograd 3,153 30.8%

Peterr @ 10:41 pm (#197) – My point about this has always been, if it is a scam that’s conducted with the machines, you’d never be able to prove it. That’s the situation we need to avoid, because otherwise we’ll have arguments like the ones about Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 everywhere.

Gute Nacht jeder!

Another update (Counted: 124 Percentage: 24.8%):

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
26637 50.02%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
23461 44.05%

Bis Morgen, Herr Doktor!

25% reporting
Bilbray 26,637
Busby 23,461

per MyDD

Gets better each time there is an update (Counted: 151 Percentage: 30.2%):

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
28568 49.67%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
25605 44.52%

Busby is slowly closing

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 28568 49.67%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 25605 44.52%

When it reaches about 60-70% we’ll know if Busby has a chance of taking the lead.

An exciting night…

U.S. Congress District 36
36.3% ( 146 of 402 ) precincts reporting as of Jun 6, 2006 at 11:07 pm

Democratic

Jane Harman 13,621 65.0%
Marcy Winograd 7,353 35.0%

Winograd’s closing, but too slowly to catch Harman, it appears.

Precincts: 500
Counted: 178
Percentage: 35.6%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
30683 49.80%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
27383 44.44%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 30683 49.80%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 27383 44.44%

Bilbray’s lead is back to 3300 votes.

Since there are technically four candidates in the race, if neither Bilbray or Busby gets 50% will there be a run-off?

What about the other 6%? I thought there were three elections:

1) democratic primary (multiple candidates)
2) republican primary (multiple candidates)
3) one on one runoff for who replaces the Dukestir til November.

Obviously I’m confused. Maybe I should change my name from obsessed to confused.

you know what would be cool? If when you hit “preview” it also showed you any new posts that have come up since you started typing yours, so similar ones don’t cross in the mail as it were

obsessed, here’s the complete slate to account for the other 6%:

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
30683 49.80%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
27383 44.44%

W. GRIFFITH – IND
2489 4.04%

PAUL KING – LIB
1063 1.73%

Just saw a report on the teevee that Feinstein — practically unopposed in the Democratic Senate primary — won only 87% of the vote. Imagine if we’d had a Ned Lamont here in California!

hungrycoyote @ 11:21 pm (#212) – From what I’ve read, the candidate with the most votes wins the special election.

Just saw a report on the teevee that Feinstein — practically unopposed in the Democratic Senate primary — won only 87% of the vote. Imagine if we’d had a Ned Lamont here in California!

No kidding! I wouldn’t have even gone to the polls if not to vote against Dianne Lieberwoman.

in case anyone needs a fresh link to the cal secretary of state’s election results site:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections.htm

shorter obsessed @ 214:
“you snooze, you lose” :~)

dmg:

They’re running way behind the SignOnSanD site.

U.S. Congress District 36
45.8% ( 184 of 402 ) precincts reporting as of Jun 6, 2006 at 11:28 pm

Democratic

Jane Harman 15,781 64.0
Marcy Winograd 8,900 36.0

I’m going to project Harman the winner here and hope I’m surprised in the morning.

Precincts: 500
Counted: 212
Percentage: 42.4%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
33468 49.59%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
30190 44.74%

W. GRIFFITH – IND
2688 3.98%

PAUL KING – LIB
1139 1.69%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 33468 49.59%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 30190 44.74%

part of the proud 13% that voted against DiFinc.

CA Gov: Angelides holding steady – (woop te doo, Phil the excitement)

Phil Angelides 584,144 47.7
Vibert Greene 12,844 1.0
Steve Westly 533,575 43.6

Here’s some good news! Fighting Democrat Charlie Brown seems to have won the chance to take down corrupt John Doolittle this November in California’s Fourth CD:

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/0400.htm

me too, punaise, i voted for colleen fernald- mother, artist, entrepreneur and NOT feinstein. the beginning of the end, for her.

http://www.sdvote.org/election/congress.xml

(Site showing both the Cunningham Run-off and regular primary run-off totals)

If I were to assume the vote is complete, then would mean that Bilbray will now complete Cunningham’s term (which ends in Nov), and . . .
Busby and Bilbray will face each other AGAIN in Nov??

Is that right? I am so glad I did not have that ballot in front of me.

TeddySanFran @ 11:42 pm (#227) – The bad news is that there are far more Republican votes than Democratic (62% of votes cast). Democrats will have to capture a large percentage of independent voters in the general election.

Yes, PerryA, they have to do it all over again in November.

there will be another election in november so whoever wins CA-50 is only a temp winner

Precincts: 500
Counted: 232
Percentage: 46.4%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
35505 49.67%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
31955 44.70%

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 35505 49.67%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 31955 44.70%

With 46.4% of precincts reporting. Busby still down by 3350 votes.

Yup, whoever wins tonight’s Special Election defends the seat in November and gets to fill the remaining seven months in Duke’s term, starting tomorrow. Tonight’s Primary is to determine the nominees for the November General Election. Still a chance for Francine to eke out a victory — the statistics types are figuring hard at dkos, but I’m going to bed. Hoping for victory for Busby when I wake up!

excuse me, that’s 3550 votes.

brkily 228

DiFinc.is an an institution; I don’t harbor any illusions that she could ever be taken down. The primary protest vote is just a little nip at the ankles, unfortunately.

I keep thinking if Busby gets a strong showing in a few precincts that have not been counted yet, things could still turn around in her favor. I sure hope it’s still too close to call!

nothing at all about elections on tv stations in LA. like it wasn’t even happening.

KTVU was just saying how LA and Alameda Counties both are very slow in their counts and likely we won’t know their results until tomorrow, along with all the “too close to call” races. They cited CA-50 and Dem Gov races as neck and neck.

I elect to retire.

The primary protest vote is just a little nip at the ankles, unfortunately.

I hope it gives her rabies!

I can’t keep my eyes open. I hope I wake up in the morning to a nice surprise! Go Busby!

maybe if she takes BART (Bay Area Rabid Transit)

a domani

U.S. Congress District 36
57.7% ( 232 of 402 ) precincts reporting as of Jun 6, 2006 at 11:48 pm

Democratic

Jane Harman 18,276 62.4%
Marcy Winograd 11,057 37.6%

Looks like Harman isn’t going to be learning any lessons this time.

The sad part is that it looks like there will be fewer than 50,000 votes cast, and as few as 10,000 extra votes in a voting district that must have close to half a million voters in it would have changed this outcome.

Bilbray got a 3,000 vote lead from the early absentee ballots. He’s added another 500 or so to his lead since. The good news for Busby is that 90% of the Rancho Santa Fe vote is in- heavily gooper- $5,000,000 McMansions. Its not looking great- but it’s not over- and no one seems to have any details on which pricincts are outstanding. If it’s Escondido and San Marcos- she’s still in the race.

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 37593 49.66%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 33945 44.84%

With 51.0% of precincts reporting. Bilbray is ahead by 3648 votes. Each time, the lead widens a bit.

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/status.htm#Races
According to this, only 9% of San Diego County bothered to vote so things should get interesting in November.

Thank you all for the information, and the very kind welcome.

PerryA @ 12:11 am (#248) – That’s rather sad when you consider that there were statewide races to vote for. If it was just a few CDs or state legislative races being contested, 9% might be a good number.

BRIAN BILBRAY – REP 40123 49.82%
FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM 36005 44.71%

With 56.6% of precincts reporting. Bilbray is now ahead by 4118 votes.

Not looking good. Think I’ll get some sleep. Night all.

punaise – good for you!

Am happy to add the majority membership of the P.G. Ladies Literary, Sewing & Tea Society proudly voted against DiFinc (22 to 14 at last count).

Anne Holliday @ 12:25 am (#252) – If only the rest of California had the voting acumen of the PGLLS&T.

I think that’s all for me, too. Goodnight all.

BTW, if anyone wants to catch up, I’ve been following the CA-50 special election here:

http://www.sdvote.org/election/congress.xml

Note that these are unofficial vote counts. The official site is hours behind. If this election gets close it may not be until tomorrow afternoon that results are official at this rate.

Francine Busby 12,326

Brian P. Bilbray 11,317

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/5000.htm

just popping in … got to Las Vegas today, met our yKos team in person which is a blast and saw the convention site – wow!

I wanted to make sure FDL folks know about some yKos related news:

First, Air America has announced that they will be streaming the convention live for a $10 fee for the whole show:

Second, I’ve been updating the work of our Media Team here:
Introducing the media team and what we’ve been doing – from this past Sunday:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..7755/18560

Ideas for how you can help the media team while at YearlyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/6/191725/1737

Our yKos Videographer introduces his plan:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/6/171454/0843

and we are very close to news from Cspan – they’re looking at shooting 5-6 panels, with some and maybe all going live. We’re just waiting for final logistics approval (which can be tricky) but the Cspan folks are so great!

and LinkTV will be doing some great broadcast and online stuff as well …
so even if you cannot be in Las Vegas, you’ll have tons of ways to experience YearlyKos Convention!

grinning from ear to ear

does anyone else think that the MSM, wailing for the last couple of weeks that the turnout was “expected” to be “very” low – actually suppressed the turnout because people just thought, what’s the point?

meta, I saw the Ann Coulter on Hannity. It was grotesque. Her new book (?) on Godless libruls(?) She’s disgusting. She’s from CT but notice how she says Lib-Rul. Pure Falwell.

Go Tester. Go Busby. & Go Neeeed!

.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT – (RUN-OFF)

Precincts: 500
Counted: 392
Percentage: 78.4%

Vote for: 1
BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
50284
49.64%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
45649
45.06%

W. GRIFFITH – IND
3790
3.74%

PAUL KING – LIB
1584
1.56%

FWIW- My e-mail to the “Today” show:

To whom it may concern,

What is up with the producers of the Today show? They continue to provide a platform for Ann Coulter to peddle her latest diatribe. Every time she publishes one of her “insult-the-left” books, the Today show gives her air time to see how many people she can offend.

Apparently Matt Lauer finally found time to read some of her drivel, and asked her about some of her more outrageous claims. As usual, her response to someone asking her to justify her claims was to attack the person, in this case accusing him of “getting testy” with her. It was obvious that she was the person who was “getting testy.”

I am not the only person who has a poor opinion of Ann Coulter. Jonah Goldberg, Editor of the National Review, has said in print that she emotes rather than thinks, and is in need of self-censorship and judgment. He also said that “Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn’t an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.”
(http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment100301.shtml)

So, please… stop abusing the public airwaves by allowing Ann Coulter to rant and rave before a national audience.

One of the silver linings with Busby is Dems won’t get complacent now and assume they can take back the House. The Republicans have many, many advantages including money and redistricting. It is a different time than 1994. It won’t be easy taking back our country, we are going to have to fight tooth and nail.

RE: Update #2: Busby/Bilbray results can be tracked here.
http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/5000.htm

I think this link is for the Primary, i.e. for the nomination for the November General Election.
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I think the link to the San Diego County Registrar of Voters for the Special Election is here: http://www.sdvote.org/election/primary.xml

According to their website there will be a run-off. Latest Results:

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT – (RUN-OFF)

Precincts: 500
Counted: 451
Percentage: 90.2%

Vote for: 1
BRIAN BILBRAY – REP
56016
49.49%

FRANCINE BUSBY – DEM
51202
45.24%

W. GRIFFITH – IND
4212
3.72%

PAUL KING – LIB
1753
1.55%

Serious bummer about Winograd.

Meanwhile, someone with a name suspiciously similar to my blog-moniker just posted the following comment on Byron Calame’s blog at the New York Times:

If Senator Clinton were getting more and better sex, would she have approached her job with more of a progressive spring in her step and perhaps voted against, rather than for, the 2002 Iraq War Resolution?

If Bill were servicing her intimate cravings more adequately, might she have mustered the gumption to sign on to, rather than snub, Russ Feingold’s resolution to censure George Bush for his illegal warrantless domestic surveillance?

If her weekly snuggle quotient had been higher, would she have found the courage and remedial progressivism to stand with John Murtha in declaring the Iraq war a mistake from the get-go and in favor of getting us the hell out?

If her conjugal bliss-to-blah ratio had tipped more definitively blissward, might she have rediscovered a commitment to core Democratic values sufficient to help her find something more constructive to do than co-sponsor a law criminalizing flag desecration?

Connect THOSE dots, gentlemen, and then check back with me on whether to give a flying hoot about the relevance of Hillary Clinton’s personal life to her performance as one of New York’s two ostensible Democratic Senators.

Already folks are making excuses about the low turnout. Sigh. Excuses: It’s about the governor’s race, two slimeballs and it turned voters off. The ballot is too complicated (huh? that must have been the smallest ballot in years!) Too many elections (um…twice a year is too much to get your ass over to the polling both?) and so on.

Seems to me, having talked to customers and folks all day in my little town, having pushed my wife out the door at 7:30 to vote, that people are just plain LAZY and unaware. They don’t see the vital responsibility of the right to vote. They don’t get the critical situation we find ourselves in. It’s too much trouble to put ‘normal’ life aside for 30 minutes and go vote.

ralphbon, serious bummer all around. It sounds too embarrassingly sexist to be one of us.

Hurray for Tester though. Seems like he pulled through with flying colors.

Boo for Ann Coulter and all those appearances. Cocktail dresses in the morning (mmhmm). Lumping all “enemies” together into a fuzzy category called “Lib-Rulls” (mmm hmm). She doesn’t look well or rested or sane. Time for the family to check her into Silver Springs.

Sure to be EPU’d:

Dr. Bob @ 93- You are probably getting the “Christian” tax thing from national Dems like Mike Malloy, who called Riley a true Christian for standing with the poor on his tax proposals.

lotus @ 111- Yeah, I was feeling pretty smug about Alabama returns until that one came in. My daughter’s best friend, who is gay, called here last night crying, saying her own mother probably voted yes. She asked: “Who have I ever hurt?”

Woke up to conversation about Coulter on Imus this morning…yeeeeeuuuuu. They replayed the Today clip, which gave me a chance to hear the boos in the background.

This woman is the Baron Von Raschke of politics. A loud-mouthed flame-throwing spew of vile to stir up the rubes on the pro wrestling circuit.

Talk about projecting the opposite of truth–she’s a WATB who can’t and won’t shut up.

Her publisher is Crown [almost publisher of Valerie Plame]…a division of Random House. My book dollars will go to other publishers.

I heard on Air America that Bilbray,s primary residence isnt in Cal. It is in Va so his kids can go to school. How can he run if it isnt his primary residence?

You people are delusional.THEY’RE STILL USING THE SAME VOTING MACHINES.GET IT.AS THEY WILL BE IN NOVEMBER.Good f**king grief.

the way our voting machines and precincts are manipulated I am amazed we have any chance at all of winning a seat

I’m a realist.We will not reclaim control of the nation from the bugf**k crazies until some catastrphic event occcurs.Give them credit.While we sat on our asses they seized control…..school boards, state legislatures etc.The nuts and bolts of governing in this country.Most importantly they have hijacked the electoral process.We are left with a spineless , gutless democratic party unwilling to tackle the electoral issue OR to even accept that possibility.No matter.Too many of those members on a national scale are but corporate whores just like their counterparts across the aisle.We will get what we deserve as nation.A reward for complacency and ignorance to what is occuring.

Looks like Bilbray won by four points.

There is a fourteen point registration advantage for goopers in the district- so Busby made up some ground- but not as much as it appears. Some other right wingers picked up 5 points together- so Busby made up what- five points.

She was not an attractive candidate- others will probably run more strongly- but it looks as if dems need to fashion a victory in districts where the gooper advantage is less than ten points- or lose the house again.

The fiftieth was a race of immigration issues vs culture of corruption- and gooper money vs dem empty pockets. Goopers outspent dems two to one.

The lesson is- this doesn’t work.

rwcole, I am not discouraged.There’s too much momentum. I think we progressives should just keep plugging away at all ends. Strategery aside, I think that’s what the rethugs did.

rwcole (272): If the Dem national party had put in some viable funds into this, it would have made all the difference. Again I am pissed at their lack of support and smarts. This was a critical loss, because it could have been a real gain. To say she wasn’t an attractive candidate – yes she was. Why do we accept the repug’s negative publicity on the Dem’s. Their candidates often are far less attractive.