
New Hampshire results are coming in now. And both seats may go blue. NH-01, with 40% of precincts counted has Carol Shea-Porter ahead with 51%. And although NH-02 only has 21% of the precincts counted, Hodes is beating Bass 57-42%; still early. Neither candidate is Rahmish and both are progressive and grassroots.
In Virginia it is still a see-saw race between Webb and Macacawitz. It looks like all incumbents are being returned although in VA-02, with 57% of precincts counted, Kellam and Drake are separated by less than 2,000 votes. Right now she's ahead 51-49%.
In Florida it looks like Harris has broken through the 30s and will wind up with 40% of the vote. With about a third of the vote counted statewide Florida is electing recently-outed Republican gay closet case Charlie Crist as governor. What a liberal place!!! Or is it clueless? Only 9% of the votes in FL-22 have been counted and Klein is ahead of Shaw 51-47%. See-saw battle in FL-16 with Foley-Negron barely ahead of Republican-"turned"-Dem Tim Mahoney, 49-48%. And Rahm's puppet in FL-13, Christine Jennings is losing to far right extremist Vern Buchanan, 53-47% with about half the votes counted.
In Georgia it looks like both right-wing Democratic incumbents, John Barrow (GA-12) and Jim Marshall (GA-08) are in serious trouble, more so Barrow.
Illinois is just starting to count votes but Bean is ahead in IL-08 and Kirk is ahead in IL-10 .
With over half the votes counted in Indiana it looks like Ellsworth will be soon joined by Donnelly and Hill as fascist slayers.
96% of precincts in in KY-03 and Yarmuth has increased his lead over Northup. HUGE victory for the good guys. Lucas and Weaver are still within range but its now an uphill battle for both.
In New Jersey Menendez routed Junior Kean.
Ohio is off to a great start with Brown kicking DeWine's ass and Strickland beating Blackwell by a mile.
In Pennsylvania, Santorum has been unceremoniously kicked out of office-- looks like a landslide. Early results in the congressional races show Lois Murphy beating Gerlach Patrick Murphy beating Fitzpatrick, and Carney slaughtering The Choker. Rendell of course, is swamping Swann.
Corker is beating Ford in Tennessee but only 19% of the precincts are in.
And, the networks are calling it for Lieberman, although the official tally shows Ned beating him by 3% so far with 8% of precincts reporting. Early results in the Connecticut House races show Courtney, and Murphy beating the Repugs but Farrell still struggling to catch Shays (with 3% of the vote counted).
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Tiberi vs. Shamansky in the next district over from OH-15: 43,000ish 41,000ish. Closer than it was polled. But Ken Blacksmell’s last botched election may have saved it for R) Tiberi.
Y’all ready for this?
Precincts Reporting: 2117 of 2443 (86.66%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,752 Total Voting: 1,954,612 Voter Turnout: 42.90 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 966,232 49.43%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 964,899 49.37%
.06 difference between Allen and webb.
Less than 8K votes.
Webb is within 1300 votes! 86% reporting!
VA Senate Race–
Late Urban precincts…..Late Urban Precincts…..repeating…..over and over and over again….
OK?
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Hi Howie !!
I am destined for EPU’d land this evening….
Kentucky Woman @ 127
Holy shit!! GO WEBB!!
Cardin holds off Steele “Democrat”.
Count the votes!
NED!
Please decide/announce after the majority of precincts are counted…..
Attempted to post to the last thread, but it was closed. . . .
Folks, campaigns always have volunteers that report data from the precincts as the polls close. The official poll judges send their tallies to the Registrar of Voters, and the campaign staff folks call their supervisors. The campaigns always tally faster - they only are tallying one race, not dozens - and so they’ve usually got a faster handle on how well they have done.
If Ned says it’s over, it’s because he’s seen the numbers that we haven’t yet.
But as I look around the eastern half of the country, it’s still been a very good evening.
Santorum? Down!
Harris? Down!
Chafee? Down!
DeWine? Down!
I predicted 7 in the Senate and 40 in the House, and I think that is still well within the realm of possibility.
Nutmeggers, you all have done great work, and shown the rest of the country how to stand proudly as progressives. Thanks!
What about those “tsunami-inducing” IN/KY house races, Howie?
Argh. I hit the wrong dang key. I’m terrible at numbers.
Webb’s getting very, very close!
Attention recount attorneys! Mopup on aisle VA!
Looks like Florida has it’s first Gay Governor. Ain’t we progressive?
Precincts Reporting: 2132 of 2443 (87.27%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,752 Total Voting: 1,966,996 Voter Turnout: 43.18 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 973,322 49.48%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 969,980 49.31%
oops…must.not.ziggurat.
What was that silly song a few years ago? “Who Let The Trolls In?” The last thread started to get messy…
Christy’s on!
Christy!
Christy!!!
Where did Ned concede?
Ok. Allen up a little more. 3,300 votes. Hang in there Webb!
omg reddhedd on cnn
YOU ROCK MY WORLD GIRLFRIEND
Red State suxxor
Tweety is driving me crazy. Hubby has him on in order to see Olbermann. House is too small.
Ms. Hamsher up now on Maddow/Bender on AAmerica….
A certain candidates hired goons must have gotten their hands on some PlaySkool keyboards.
We’ve got the House! My eyes are now gazing on the Senate.
Redd on CNN going strong!!!!!!!!!!!
Christy, you were great!
Jane on Air America right now!
Speakout @ 14
You mean there is no Mrs. Crist?
wo are these freaking idiots voting green in Va?
T- @ 98: I’m going with the Woodford Reserve
good call. I’ll be into that or the Knob Creek later on.
Senate’s gonna be up to RGJoe.
To have had NSA capability when Rover called on 8/8/6……
Have I told you lately that I love you…
Jane kicking ass.
VA’s page is hanging on the update again.
The VA Sen battle hasn’t been see-saw. Webb led only once, early on. Since then, it’s been Allen, with Webb playing catch-up.
FWIW-
Nancy Johson concedes CT CD-5 to (D) Murphy.
EPU’d from the last (far too quickly, I might add) (and thbbppptttt to you, punaise, too. If I want to quote a troll soz I can blast it, I ought to be allowed to):
Don’t you dare say that “Ned money” should have been given to Harold (Repub lite) Ford, Jr. How dare you? He ran a really good campaign with a really lousy message. What conservative Tennessean in their right mind would even give him a second thought? Now, had he run as a NOT Republican, he would have won, but he began triangulating four years ago and he couldn’t stop at this late date. So go to H*** Mr. Iknow better than you Concern Troll.
It’s totally platonic, Mr. Reddhedd.
Purge 33 please
I just called Trysts and sent Mr. & Mrs. Reddhead a Cosmopolitan to their table. They said sure-no problem.
http://www.trystdc.com/menu/
You mean there is no Mrs. Crist?
No apparently he is yet another closet case.
Great job on the interview Christie!
Ned didn’t concede, did he?
And, the networks are calling it for Lieberman, although the official tally shows Ned beating him by 3% so far with 8% of precincts reporting.
So please someone tell me - Why is everyone calling this a Liebershit win??!!
AirAmerica link to listen to Jane online
Allen just pulled away. :(
Thanks for the shoutout, Jane!
Blank Kludge @ 39
Woo hoo!
Damn. It’s slipping away from Webb again.
Precincts Reporting: 2202 of 2443 (90.14%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,752 Total Voting: 2,048,643 Voter Turnout: 44.97 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,025,262 50.05%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 998,701 48.75%
Rob Zuber @ 50
F^ck
Go Christy!!!
(RedState … whatever.)
You know what else? There are millions of Americans looking at CNN going, “what’s a blogger?”
And now they’re being introduced to people we know and love (or not, on the other side), and how many new FDL readers are being created right now?
They’ll try to spin it otherwise, but this is the netroots’ election.
Jane’s interview is over.
punaise @ 35
I wonder if Charlie Crist likes Knob Creek…
JCasper–
Agreed, re: Jane on AA; made the point about this being a progressive, not a conservative, Dem victory which will be an important meme to push the rest of the night and through the first couple of 24 hour newscycles….
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don’t concede, Ned…not yet; only 6000 votes right now
ifthethunderdontgetya @
7
CNN and some of the networks are calling the Md governor’s race for the O’Malley over Ehrlich, too. Lots of hard work and prayers are paying off.
Don’t feed, please. If this is how they must be, let them. Time will tell…it always does.
Robb:
That was one huge spike. The difference was about 3K, now it’s over 25K, bam! Like that.
Mr. Casper,
You got mad typing skilz?
How ’bout some livebloggin’?
Ned had better not concede any time soon.
I’ve been dealing with an emergency today so I haven’t been able to follow as closely as I would have liked.
I see at least one troll is busy tonight.
Redd talking about 11/8. Way to go.
Now it’s time for Casey, Brown, Menendez, and Whitehouse to pay off that last NED $2,000,000 loan.
NED should say: “You’re welcome, gentlemen!”
Gentlemen, start your (fundraising) engines.
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With the shit that happened in VA, the race will not be decided tonight.
Blank Kludge @
39
Thing o’beauty.
LJ/Aquaria @ 52
A few more precincts report in and Allen jumps 25K ahead? What’s up with that?
We’re almost there!
LJ/Aquaria @ 62
I noticed that. Huge spike out of nowhere.
Ricky boy is saying he lost…YEA
Gotta love that e-voting in VA, eh?
Boy, that was a little nervewracking. OMG — I was live on CNN.
Something is really—really—fishy about this VA race…
Santorum conceding as we speak.
DairyMaid @ 68
Look like some last minute diebold style hanky panky did it?
bye bye loser
Poor little ricky….
nice to hear Santorum concede … phew!
Geez, they’re basing the Lieberman win only on the exit vote with only 14% of precincts reporting?!?!
little ricky on msnbc
LJ/Aquaria @ 75
I agree. I hope Webb’s team is questioning this.
clif @ 73
can sound be bronzed?
I so want that quote around to look at….
Christy - great great job!
Christy, you look stunning tonight, and what’s more, you’re the smartest gal there!
Christy: Did you get my drink?
This is SWEET! Poor crying kids.
Precincts Reporting: 2236 of 2443 (91.53%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,741 Total Voting: 2,092,364 Voter Turnout: 45.93 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,042,414 49.82%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,024,756 48.98%
Down to 18K, but still…
Doesn’t look good for Webb now.
OT, but FDL site visits over 117,000 so far today, and site is humming along just fine … h/t to the FDL tech crew, nice job!
Gnome de Plume @ 25
Same problem here!!!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 76
You did wonderful!! I’m so proud!
When I stumbled onto this site in April 2006 (Thank you Stephen Colbert… ;) ), I had no idea I got to watch the rise of a couple of stars!!
You’re a natural, Redd.
Relative anonymity? Ummm, over.
Our dear ReddHead –
You were great! You looked wonderful, sounded very smart.
A big hug to you! Thanks again for all you do.
Lieberman not declaring victory yet and Gerstein calling the AP premature. They’re waiting for a concession from Lamont.
Santorum’s gone?
Woo-hoo!
*whine* I checked my cookies (chocolate chip) and missed Christy :(
Congratulations, Christy, you came off great and I’m proud to have you (and Jane) as our spokespersons.
You and Jane helped pull off two nearly impossible things: Lieberman lost the Dem primary in CT, and you got me involved in politics. Thank you.
It’s not the kids’ fault their daddy is a doosh. Take it easy on ‘em. Speakout @ 89
Santorum just thanked God in his concession speech. Ironically, I was doing the exact same thing.
Jozo won’t announce until Ned calls.
DISABLE LAMONT PHONES, please…
drive by - Watching Santorum’s concession speech on PCN in PA - he has his whole family up on stage, the kids are sobbing.
Don’t count on anything from IN2 until the numbers come in from LaPorte county. Their polls were held open 2hrs. extra (cough…bad machines…cough), and it’s a red county. Most all the other precincts are mostly/all in.
AirportCat @
90
Absolutely. Jamie rocks.
I was on AA while Christy was on CNN but I think Jamie is grabbing her clip for C&L so we can all see it.
Woo hoo!!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 76
You were lovely.
You just gained hundreds of new FDL readers!
Frank Probst @ 102
ROFLMAO
Frank Probst @ 100
Line of the night.
SharonW @ 95
Let’s hope it’s not necessary, but if it is, I’m sure Ned will be gracious and classy, as he has been throughout.
Check the voting machines - looks like quite a leap there Macacawitz
Cujo359 @ 69
Whoa. Allen now up by more than 15,000. Those missing precints must be BIG.
LJ/Aquaria @ 61
It was Hanover and Virginia Beach, apparently.
I’m glad he’s gone, but Santorum just gave a very nice concession speech. Wish they’d all be like that.
From TPM Cafe, looks like Crazy Curt’s going down:
PA-07 Sestak (D): 56% Weldon (R): 44% n/a n/a 44% 09:56 pm EST
Lamont not conceding yet.
Way to go Christy!
This is SWEET! Poor crying kids.
It’s not the kids’ fault their daddy is a doosh. Take it easy on ‘em. Speakout @ 89
Sorry- Those were two separate thoughts. i always feel for kids.
Weaver has won in Ky according to this…
http://electionresults.ky.gov
Jane et al.–
With those most CT numbers are you having a re-think?
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Don’t concede, Ned.
Also, what’s up with McCaskill?
I am here watching CNN with 3 politically aware males. Their observations:
(1) Christy was AMAZING.
(2) I know WAY more than they do about pretty much all the races. Well I guess I have an unfair advantage hahahaha
twolf1 @ 102
Yeah, they know they have to listen to Daddy will have lots of time to rant and rave at home after this!
Respectful Dissent @ 105
You rocked, girl!
twolf1 @ 103
Don’t worry kids. Now Daddy will have time to write more fine literature.
John Casper @
106
You rawk and I am still nail-biting.
God bless my old pals in Delaware County, PA. They get a breath of fresh air with that weasel Weldon gone.
DairyMaid @ 67
Wasn’t the FBI involved before the polls closed?
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 112
Ouch. That’s the military area, isn’t it?
I hope those of us who are not *able* to change channels will get to see Christy on you tube. Please? I am having to listen to Rahm now . . .
Marion in Savannah @ 127
Yes.
I’m watching my local NBC station for local results. So, tell me, what’s going on? Ned holding off?
I have a bad feelign about VA…
Precincts Reporting: 2240 of 2443 (91.69%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,741 Total Voting: 2,096,849 Voter Turnout: 46.03 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,045,082 49.84%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,026,529 48.96%
Yes.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 74
Huzzah for Christy!!!
And if you have a second, have TRex go “pants” that maroon redstater.
Olbermann. Olbermann. Olbermann.
More Olbermann, less Matthews.
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 112
It’s disconcerting, but look at it this way: If Northern Virginia is still out there, it can easily swing back the other way.
Did CNN just take the projection off Lieberman for the time being?
Crap, Lamont is calling and conceding.
Balrog @ 112
Agreed, very thoughtful concession.
This election so far, (lose of the house to Demos) cannot make Hillary happy. The Senator would much rather be running against a Republican controlled House.