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Democratic Rule!

IMPERCH!

Howard laid the groundwork, but the Lamont campaign got everything rolling.

A terrible defeat, but so much good came from Ned’s run that it isn’t one completely.

Of course, there’s that small matter of the petty cash fund to explain first.

twolf1 @
3

IMPERCH!

Isn’t that what a bird does?

And Ct.Bob, Keith, Maura, Spazeboy…thank you for being patriots.

EPU’d from below:

Richmond @ 174

Bart Motes @ 165

I think Rahm is getting a bad rap here. I love him and Howard Dean and I think their antagonistic love/hate relationship is working well for the party. The reason I’m not upset with this story is not because I think its a good idea to neuter the left–Rahm is an idiot if he really believes that–but look at the story–this is a story all about bipartisan niceness. They just cherrypicked some conciliatory language from Rahm. He’s a fighter and he’s going to kick the Republicans in the nuts as the best pit bull that Nancy Pelosi ever had. Wait and see. Incidentally, projecting a vision of moderateness, as long as the knives are out in private, is good strategy. Don’t let the message confuse you as to the agenda. Congressional Democrats got brutalized by the Republicans for a long time. Payback will be getting dished out….liberally.

Disagree, but equally importantly. You need to get to him to rethink his backstabbing and attacks of the critical wing of the party that brought these results. I didn’t hear Dean backstabbing, or knocking the so-called conservative part of the party.

Frankly, for Rahm AND Schumer, I think this is about the war, and preserving U.S. physical presence in the Middle East. This is the side of the Liberal wing that he/they are most concerned about.

Someone else said earlier that history might well judge Ned as the McCarthey of this election.

A quick question before the comments start — what’s EPU’d?

Good Morning, Aquaria–

What’s the word on VA/MT?

And don’t forget that the progressive turnout in CT to support Ned likely helped to propel Chris Murphy to victory in CT-5 and forced Chris Shays to run harder (and harder to the left) than he has in his life in CT-4.

YAY HOWARD DEAN!!!!

Speaking on CSPAN2 now; he says we are going to keep the organizers in the field, that we are going to continue as if yesterday never happened.

F*CKIN’-A, MAN!!!! We are in this for the long run!!!

The press is asking Howard about Iraq…and they miss the most important message he imparts, lets it pass unnoticed.

We are establishing permanent Democratic bases on American soil, people!!!

Pffft. All that GOP money didn’t come without strings. Lieberman will put the knife in our backs at a crucial moment, count on it.

Thank you, Mr. Lamont and family.

Great patriots!

(I really, really hate Joe.)

retirin’ in five @ 9

Someone else said earlier that history might well judge Ned as the McCarthey of this election.

A quick question before the comments start — what’s EPU’d?

EPU = Evil Parallel Universe, a frequent commenter who ran into a string of threads where he came late and posted, only to see that the discussion had moved on to a new topic on a new thread.

EPU’d means you had a comment from the last thread that you wanted to bring forward. (Best done when the topics are related, to avoid hijacking the new thread.)

Rayne @ 12

YAY HOWARD DEAN!!!!

Speaking on CSPAN2 now; he says we are going to keep the organizers in the field, that we are going to continue as if yesterday never happened.

F*CKIN’-A, MAN!!!! We are in this for the long run!!!

The press is asking Howard about Iraq…and they miss the most important message he imparts, lets it pass unnoticed.

We are establishing permanent Democratic bases on American soil, people!!!

YEAH – That sounds as nice as ‘The Scream!’

hey if we impeach bush and cheney warcrimes, torture, treason revealing our spy’s identity, putting Atom bomb plans on the net in ARABIC, etc then isn’t Nancy Pelosi next in line to be president? I may be wrong but impeachment might be a good idea. Plus I don’t think presidents under impeachment can pardon people? Watch Scooter Libby sing then!

I love Dean!

(I did not appreciate his stance on the destruction of Lebanon, though.)

GO DEMS and INDYS!

EPU’d so here again is Howard Dean on the Netroots.

Dean press conference at National Press Club. I live-blogged it. Maybe some typing mistakes.

Question: What role did the liberal blogosphere play?

Howard Dean:

That’s a growing influence on politics in general. There is also a conservative blogosphere, not only the liberal blogosphere, of course.

The netroots community can be very proud.

They’re playing a bigger role.

Without the blogs, Jerry McInerny and Carole Shay (NH-1), would have won. Entirely grassroots effort, without support form the Party, including us.

A big deal.

Here’s an even bigger deal. As you know, robocalls, flyers, low-ball election techniques. We knew about that instantly because of the blogs.

We are not sure (Repubs) did it more than in the past, but we knew about it faster.

Updates every 10 minutes from people who called 1-888-DEM-VOTE. (or whatever)

We were able to get lawyers to polling places immediately.

The instantaneousness of the blogs, of people who read the blogs, who get that information to us, is a huge improvement over 2004.

Thanks Peterr @ 15. Long-time lurker. Inadequate vocab. I blame myself.

Sweeeet music to my ears. Let us establish bases of freedom across this country, in every nook and corner, so all people of every financial and ethnic background feel free, and have the right to earn a living, and take care of their family.

YEEEEEESSSSSSS

Last night I was all over the net and surfed the various television networks for news. The very best infornmation I got, particularly on the VA Senate race, was right here. The commentators here knew there stuff.
The level of detail concerning various precincts and their voting patterns was very impressive. They were way ahead of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, and MSNBC, not to mention other blogs [TPM and KOS were frankly disappointing]. KUDOS!

The wave we saw last night started in Connecticut August 8th.

If not for that Lamont victory, national Dems would never have found the courage to stand up for Iraq, and we’d probably be crying about how we came up four seats short of the House.

Prof at 19 — do you have a link to that? That’s a fantastic quote from Dean and I’d love to link it up this morning.

Dean talking about candidate school and Rahm and Nancy and the next class to emerge out of 2008.

This is where Rahm will be a danger to us; he’ll kill off the babies in the cradle, so to speak.

What does it take to get Rahm removed from his seat in DCCC?

God, if only we could stick Lamont in a seat like that instead of Rahm, the wonders that would emerge…

Correction: I dropped the all-important “not.” Here is what Dean said:

Prof @ 19

The netroots community can be very proud.

They’re playing a bigger role.

Without the blogs, Jerry McInerny and Carole Shay (NH-1), would not have won. Entirely grassroots effort, without support form the Party, including us.

A big deal.

NPR says it is 8000 between Webb and Allen.
This right?

Where is Aquaria the guru?

The more important thing about the Rahm business is that you don’t stab in the back the people who do the heavy lifting for you.

I’ve said it many times here, but it bears repeating, until these numbskulls get it.

It is not the moderates who turn the wheels on this party. They’re not sure enough of where they stand to commit to the party.

It is the base, the liberals, who do.

It is the liberals who make that extra phone call, knock on one more door, plug in one more page of data, log in one more check, drive one more person to the polls.

It’s not the moderates who do that.

It’s the people who care, the people with conviction and a preternatural faith that we can make a difference.

It is the conviction and enthusiasm of the base that inspires the squishy middle that, hey, maybe we’re onto something. Bored, disinterested, wishy-washy people can’t do that. Americans like winners and people who seem to be onto one. They’ll respond if they think that something’s going on over there. That comes from a fired up base. And the Dem base is liberal, like it or not..

WE are the base. WE are the party. The moderates are just bandwagon jumpers, hanging around only when we’re winning and abandoning us when we aren’t. All they care about is their own fingers and toes. WE care about the party, enough to sacrifice our time and money and energy for it.

So Rahm and Chuck and all the DLC triangulators can just bite me.

CHS — I think Dean’s still speaking now, might not have a transcript for a while.

Dean’s still on CSPAN2.

old gold @ 22

Last night I was all over the net and surfed the various television networks for news. The very best infornmation I got, particularly on the VA Senate race, was right here. The commentators here knew there stuff.
The level of detail concerning various precincts and their voting patterns was very impressive. They were way ahead of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, and MSNBC, not to mention other blogs [TPM and KOS were frankly disappointing]. KUDOS!

FDL was THE resource of the night, hands down. And that fact that the system operated so smoothly was awesome. Christy, Jane, Howie, TRex et al — THANK YOU!!!!

People, it’s like the man says right now…Dean’s just told the press that the 2008 race is won in 2007.

The race starts NOW.

Christy — well said, thanks.

Prof 19 — that’s great. Thanks for transcribing it.

Thank You to Ned Lamont & his family; Ned’s campaign staff; and to all the citizens, including those from the FDL community, who worked so hard to put a good man in the Senate. I, for one, am very grateful that you all worked so hard to speak truth to those in power.

LJ/Aquaria @ 28

WE care about the party, enough to sacrifice our time and money and energy for it.

AMEN! VERY well said (all of it).

(psst: VA/MT?)

Prof @ 26

Correction: I dropped the all-important “not.” Here is what Dean said:

Prof @ 19

The netroots community can be very proud.

They’re playing a bigger role.

Without the blogs, Jerry McInerny and Carole Shay (NH-1), would not have won. Entirely grassroots effort, without support form the Party, including us.

A big deal.

And how about that song?

As “someone” said:

thenthelightningwill (1 month ago)
Rock on Jerry McNerney!

mrsmarks @ 30

old gold @ 22

Last night I was all over the net and surfed the various television networks for news. The very best infornmation I got, particularly on the VA Senate race, was right here. The commentators here knew there stuff.
The level of detail concerning various precincts and their voting patterns was very impressive. They were way ahead of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, and MSNBC, not to mention other blogs [TPM and KOS were frankly disappointing]. KUDOS!

FDL was THE resource of the night, hands down. And that fact that the system operated so smoothly was awesome. Christy, Jane, Howie, TRex et al — THANK YOU!!!!

Thanks to Jamie — he kept the whole thing going. He did an amazing job.

testaroo @ 10

Good Morning, Aquaria–

What’s the word on VA/MT?

Here’s the VA results:

Precincts Reporting: 2439 of 2443 (99.84%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,672 Total Voting: 2,365,081 Voter Turnout: 51.92 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,171,813 49.55%
G F Allen Republican 1,164,767 49.25%

Expect Allen to make some noises about recounting, but conceding at the last minute. Doesn’t want people looking too closely at the votes, with the FBI sniffing around.

MT:

D Jon TESTER 195,235 49

R Conrad BURNS 193,506 48

Expect a recount.

I liked the MSNBC crew with the addition of Keith O. Tweety was more than a pudwipe though. He must have been sore about the drubbing across the chin his brother took by hanging his hat on (R) Lynn Swann.

The CNN crew was lame-o.

When are those chowder heads going to dtich the useless shill that is Dollar Bill Bennett? Or was eh there to keep the odds/bets in line?

-GSD

LJ/Aquaria – so very, very right. And to the commenter who said that right here on FDL was the best up to date election return information anywhere – 100% correct. Much thanks to you and others who together made the picture (the part we could see anyway) totally clear.

Christy, Jane, and others have gathered quite a group and it was wonderful last night.

also, thanks for all the ‘drugs’, tea and other ‘condiments offered to keep me off the ledge. I was very nervous. This site held my hand mucho and I thank everyone.

The site was amazing last night. Minimal lags, if any!

I think Dean just made an incorrect attribution, but the quote is fantastic:

Chance favors the prepared mind.

OMG. Why the hell was this man not our president instead of that mumbling coke-head dry-drunk?

As I said here many moons ago, social change happens very fast in the late stages. But there was a long gestation phase, starting with Dean, then triggered by the netroots and Ned, and it looks as if it all happened at once. But this thing has been gestating for over 20 years. Now is birth and then development. This is a significant change in the gestalt from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft (see my post in previous thread). There is also a demographic component that I haven’t seen anybody spending any time on here, and that is the fact that the boomers have changed the social, political and economic landscape at each phase in their lifecycle.

Rayne @ 41

OMG. Why the hell was this man not our president instead of that mumbling coke-head dry-drunk?

I have been asking this over and over for the past two years.

And yes, I concur wholeheartedly with old gold’s comment above. Bravo to the entire FDL gang and Jamie on last night’s performance.

This site was the best source for info, caught stuff that I could later validate at DailyKos. DKos also had lags in service, aggravating when folks were coming into the office continually looking for news. Hard to go chasing news when you’re on Skype with voters; was easier just to stay on FDL and hit Refresh Comments between calls.

Just like Joe,I’m making a list of all the national Dems who threw Ned under the bus. I am FURIOUS with them and it will give me much schendenfreuden(sp?)to watch HoJO screw them seven ways to Sunday for the next six f******g years.

Votes for independant candidates played a huge role in many races we followed. They got 4%, 5%, even 10% in one case, enough to let the incumbent win.

When it’s a close race and it really matters, why oh why do people vote for the third party? End of rant, and time for coffee.

The fortune cookie that ‘Kevin & Kell’ delivered me this morning:
Bagdikian’s Observation:
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” on a ukelele.

Joe needs to be taken off his committee seats. He’s the very-junior senator from CT, and NOT A DEMOCRAT. (Harry, do you hear that? Do you understand the difference between Joe-the-Democratic-Senator and Joe-the-C4L-Senator?)

And next time, we take out the triangulators!

Thanks! LJ/Aquaria!

What are the murmurs about the absentees, etc. in MT? Any idea which way they could break?

In your experience do you think that a 1800 vote defecit is likely to be made up by the likely split in Absentees? i.e given the trending probablilty, would a 55-45 split x the number of absentee ballots make up the 1800 vote spread?

Also, I heard the yellowstone recount was based on adding the absentees, which they indeed did. How many outlying absentees are out there?

Basically, I wonder if we are going to be playing this poker game from the tall stack or the small stack…

Great day for NH.

NH was at one time in my life in the 80’s and 90’s. The MOST Republican state in the nation.

NH held the Gov’s seat with a record 74% victory for (D) John Lynch. The 2 congressional seats flipped R to D.

The state senate and house(There are over 400 NH house members) flipped R to D.

Also the local religious whacko lost for executive council too.

-GSD

One house of Congress, maybe both. 28 Democratic governors. A lot of the GOP’s leading instigators gone down in flames.

Nice work, everybody.

hi, egregious!

NH also passed a referendum question that prevents emminent domain use for private businesses too.

That was a good win also.

-GSD

‘morning all. I had to root around the web to find out how certain races went before I landed here. I had six or seven hours of heavenly sleep, with a wonderful wake up to screaming headlines of imminent D takeover. Life is sweet. Did you ever go to sleep Aquaria?

Ned and Dean are the catalyst for yesterday. This defiantly has been brewing for a long time, my whole life basically, (I’m 35) This is the end of the baby boomer generation’s rule. The Rep. rule that started in 1980 just came to an end. It’s a generational shift and if we hold these Dems. to being honest it cold last for a generation.

LJ/Aquaria said in #28

WE are the base. WE are the party. The moderates are just bandwagon jumpers, hanging around only when we’re winning and abandoning us when we aren’t. All they care about is their own fingers and toes. WE care about the party, enough to sacrifice our time and money and energy for it.

So Rahm and Chuck and all the DLC triangulators can just bite me.

How is it decided who chairs the DCCC/DSCC? Now the real work starts. As I said somewhere else here, no coffeebreak for Sysyphus.

GSD @ 48

Great day for NH.

NH was at one time in my life in the 80’s and 90’s. The MOST Republican state in the nation.

NH held the Gov’s seat with a record 74% victory for (D) John Lynch. The 2 congressional seats flipped R to D.

The state senate and house(There are over 400 NH house members) flipped R to D.

Also the local religious whacko lost for executive council too.

-GSD

400 house members?

In NH?

Get the fuck out of here! (said in an amazed, amused way!)

You’re kidding!

Texas must have 5-10 times the population of NH, and we have 150 Lecherators, and 31 Sin-nators.

Rats! My post was lost– (to repost/abbreviate)

Thanks for the update Aquaria,

What is your feeling about the absentees in MT? how many are out there? (I heard the yellowstone recount thing was about having already added them into their results)

If they break for burns would the likely percentages of that break times the number of absentees overcome the 1800 vote defecit?

Basically… will we be playing this game from the tall or the short stack?

Webb-Allen as of 10:19et

Webb 1,170,766
Allen 1,162,719
Parker 26,048

Tester-Burns as of 10:45et

Tester 195,235
Burns 193,506
Indep 10,181

Hayduke @ 53

Ned and Dean are the catalyst for yesterday. This defiantly has been brewing for a long time, my whole life basically, (I’m 35) This is the end of the baby boomer generation’s rule. The Rep. rule that started in 1980 just came to an end. It’s a generational shift and if we hold these Dems. to being honest it cold last for a generation.

Well hayduke, I agree in part. But the boomers are really going to be pissed when their retirement package isn’t what they thought it was going to be, and their health care isn’t going to be what they thought it would be. And they are going to be voting seniors. There are big changes coming: Universal health care, Universal education, universal pension system (not social security), etc.

LJ/Aquaria @ 55

GSD @ 48

Texas must have 5-10 times the population of NH, and we have 150 Lecherators, and 31 Sin-nators.

…But texas is an oligarchy. NH is still a republic.

:)

TJfromCA @ 54

LJ/Aquaria said in #28

WE are the base. WE are the party. The moderates are just bandwagon jumpers, hanging around only when we’re winning and abandoning us when we aren’t. All they care about is their own fingers and toes. WE care about the party, enough to sacrifice our time and money and energy for it.

So Rahm and Chuck and all the DLC triangulators can just bite me.

How is it decided who chairs the DCCC/DSCC? Now the real work starts. As I said somewhere else here, no coffeebreak for Sysyphus.

If memory serves, it’s a clique-y little insider Beltway thing.

But the Beltway just changed. Still, habits die hard for these fucktards.

Most of us around here found a way around that little problem.

We don’t bother with them.

That’s right.

Donate to the DNC, or donate to the candidates directly.

Circumvent them. If you take away their money, you take away their power.

The problem with MSNBC is that Tweety is in love with the sound of his own voice. I bet he spoke more than all the other people on the network combined and most of it was drivel.

Re MT, comments from an atty in MT wrt recount: http://wakeupdemocracy.blogspot.com/

LJ/Aquaria @ 37

testaroo @ 10

Good Morning, Aquaria–

What’s the word on VA/MT?

MT:

D Jon TESTER 195,235 49

R Conrad BURNS 193,506 48

Expect a recount.

Automatic recount (paid by the State) if vote is within 1/2 %. With 388,741 votes, that means if margin is fewer than 1,944 votes. Right now, you are showing 1,729, so recount.

(But provisional ballots not yet counted.)

(And of course, the National Republican Party will happily pay for a recount. And why not also in Virginia?)

testaroo @ 56

Rats! My post was lost– (to repost/abbreviate)

Thanks for the update Aquaria,

What is your feeling about the absentees in MT? how many are out there? (I heard the yellowstone recount thing was about having already added them into their results)

If they break for burns would the likely percentages of that break times the number of absentees overcome the 1800 vote defecit?

Basically… will we be playing this game from the tall or the short stack?

The absentees are part of the total for any of the electronic districts, so that means MT is probably just about done. It’s the provisionals that will need counting now, and those will probably break for Tester.

Burns will have to find the votes. They’re not going to find him. Let’s put it that way.

(Crap… formatting error. The comment about an oligarchy @60 was mine… don’t want Aquaria implicated by it!)

Christy Hardin Smith @ 24

Prof at 19 — do you have a link to that? That’s a fantastic quote from Dean and I’d love to link it up this morning.

No. although I blockquoted it, it was my own typing. (Bad form?)

It is 95% correct. I left out a sentence or two at most, and a few other words, but it is mostly right-on. I type very fast, and very accurately (except for leaving out “not” and misspelling “from” as “form” and blowing the names of our two netroots candidates).

Prof @ 63

Automatic recount (paid by the State) if vote is within 1/2 %. With 388,741 votes, that means if margin is fewer than 1,944 votes. Right now, you are showing 1,729, so recount.

(But provisional ballots not yet counted.)

(And of course, the National Republican Party will happily pay for a recount. And why not also in Virginia?)

Thanks for the update. I wasn’t sure how MT did recounts.

New Hampshire rocks! Thank you GSD and other Granite Staters.

Huge win. I love NH’s misty morning and it was, as usual, fun up here with a big GOTV and passion.

i’ve been tearful since 8pm last nite. Misty morning blues.

sofistic @ 58

Hayduke @ 53

Ned and Dean are the catalyst for yesterday. This defiantly has been brewing for a long time, my whole life basically, (I’m 35) This is the end of the baby boomer generation’s rule. The Rep. rule that started in 1980 just came to an end. It’s a generational shift and if we hold these Dems. to being honest it cold last for a generation.

Well hayduke, I agree in part. But the boomers are really going to be pissed when their retirement package isn’t what they thought it was going to be, and their health care isn’t going to be what they thought it would be. And they are going to be voting seniors. There are big changes coming: Universal health care, Universal education, universal pension system (not social security), etc.

Your right! Its often true that people at the end of their life realize that they have been wrong all along. And those old Regan Republicans will be voting for social services that they RAILED against. Still, that generation just got shown the door last night as far as being in control of the national direction (not completely but in large measure).

testaroo @ 59

LJ/Aquaria @ 55

GSD @ 48

Texas must have 5-10 times the population of NH, and we have 150 Lecherators, and 31 Sin-nators.

…But texas is an oligarchy. NH is still a republic.

:)

The irony is that we really were a republic once. Back in 1844, and NH was only part of one (as they are now).

anyone have a final number on Wyoming ?

Trauner
Cubin

wee small hours Trauner refused to concede

Hey you guys! This is not the end of the boomer’s rule! We never got started – got hijacked by asshole young republicans who couldn’t get it right back in the ’60’s and ’70’s. Oh wait. Hillary is one of us . . .

Aquaria…

I guess that is the best we can hope for. Thanks for the info.

Over the last 24 hours, you may have found a new vocation as a pollster/consultant!

…….At least I buy what you’re selling.

–Again, thanks.

I have this wonderful picture in my head of Nacny Pelosi standing up to the Ringwath King (Donald Rumsfield) and saying. I AM NO MAN!!! Arrrgggghhh.

Prof – I heard a quarter of 1% on CNN this a.m.

Prof @ 63

LJ/Aquaria @ 37

testaroo @ 10

Good Morning, Aquaria–

What’s the word on VA/MT?

MT:

D Jon TESTER 195,235 49

R Conrad BURNS 193,506 48

Expect a recount.

Automatic recount (paid by the State) if vote is within 1/2 %. With 388,741 votes, that means if margin is fewer than 1,944 votes. Right now, you are showing 1,729, so recount.

(But provisional ballots not yet counted.)

(And of course, the National Republican Party will happily pay for a recount. And why not also in Virginia?)

GSD @ 38

I liked the MSNBC crew with the addition of Keith O. Tweety was more than a pudwipe though. He must have been sore about the drubbing across the chin his brother took by hanging his hat on (R) Lynn Swann.

Speaking of which, when they announced the McCaskill victory at around 2am Eastern (which may not have been the first time), Ms. Redshift swears she hear someone off-camera say “goddammit!” and it sounded like Tweety. She was able to run it back several times on Tivo, but when she tried to save it for posterity, our Tivo was being flaky. Did anyone else hear that, or was she hallucinating from lack of sleep? I haven’t seen mention of it anywhere.

LJ/Aquaria @
56

GSD @ 48

Great day for NH.

NH was at one time in my life in the 80’s and 90’s. The MOST Republican state in the nation.

NH held the Gov’s seat with a record 74% victory for (D) John Lynch. The 2 congressional seats flipped R to D.

The state senate and house(There are over 400 NH house members) flipped R to D.

Also the local religious whacko lost for executive council too.

-GSD

400 house members?

In NH?

Get the fuck out of here! (said in an amazed, amused way!)

You’re kidding!

Texas must have 5-10 times the population of NH, and we have 150 Lecherators, and 31 Sin-nators.

NH truly has the “citizen legislator” and it is the 3 rd largest legislative body in the world behind the US congress and India, or some other large democracy like Indonesia I think.

-GSD

EPU = Evil Parallel Universe, a frequent commenter who ran into a string of threads where he came late and posted, only to see that the discussion had moved on to a new topic on a new thread.

A frequent and OMNISCIENT commenter.

1. I did say you all worry too much, and I was right.

2. Plus, I own the whole Rover not a genuis thing and Repugs are toast (and this is going way back), cause I even gave reasons why he is not a genuis and why they would be toast. Hmmmmmmmmm, some Universe was pretty much right on the money on that one.

Disclaimer: I did think that Lamont had a chance and if he lost it would be closer, but, that’s the exception that proves the omniscience.

But Lamont in the primary and general was not a pyrrhic victory by any means, and all who partook in it deserve a great deal of credit and thanks from the rest of us.

Angie,

Well deserved tears for a great day. I love NH too. Even a tad bit more today than yesterday, with all apologies to Chicago.

-GSD

GSD @ 77

LJ/Aquaria @
56

GSD @ 48

Great day for NH.

NH was at one time in my life in the 80’s and 90’s. The MOST Republican state in the nation.

NH held the Gov’s seat with a record 74% victory for (D) John Lynch. The 2 congressional seats flipped R to D.

The state senate and house(There are over 400 NH house members) flipped R to D.

Also the local religious whacko lost for executive council too.

-GSD

400 house members?

In NH?

Get the fuck out of here! (said in an amazed, amused way!)

You’re kidding!

Texas must have 5-10 times the population of NH, and we have 150 Lecherators, and 31 Sin-nators.

NH truly has the “citizen legislator” and it is the 3 rd largest legislative body in the world behind the US congress and India, or some other large democracy like Indonesia I think.

-GSD

Man…

I shoulda hooked up with that guy from NH back in the day.

I would love living in a place like that. That’s just awesome!

cbl @ 72

anyone have a final number on Wyoming ?

Trauner
Cubin

wee small hours Trauner refused to concede

Still down 800, with part of one county not yet in. Don’t know the story beyond that, but digging.

(Used to live in WY for a time.)

I would love for someone to crunch the numbers and give us an ROI for the netroots/actblue versus Rahm and Chuck show. Netroots won races with significant less money. Could be a real eye-opener.

Nah, aquaria, NH doesn’t have enough sunshine. I just talked with my brother in Western MA. He is thinking of leaving for better climes. His S.A.D. is out of control.

Thank YOU, Christy!

You are the Goddess of GOTV!

We got ‘em down and we gotta keep kick’n!

testaroo @ 73

Aquaria…

I guess that is the best we can hope for. Thanks for the info.

Over the last 24 hours, you may have found a new vocation as a pollster/consultant!

…….At least I buy what you’re selling.

–Again, thanks.

Ha, thanks, but I’m not good enough at math to be a pollster! Statistics? :::SHUDDER::::

And I’m too, er, honest and no-nonsense to be a consultant. I have no patience for stroking egos, and most pols want that.

I’m better off being an armchair analyst, or tucked away in some obscure campaign.

Gnome de Plume @ 72

Hey you guys! This is not the end of the boomer’s rule! We never got started – got hijacked by asshole young republicans who couldn’t get it right back in the ’60’s and ’70’s. Oh wait. Hillary is one of us . . .

I was about to say that. Those born between 1946 and 1955 were the Woodstock/summer of love generation, and they were certainly not republicans.

LJ/Aquaria @ 28

That was so good, and so true, that reading it made me vibrate. Would you mind if I quote you? I’ll have some faxes to send to Rahm and his guys next week.

kristinejoy @ 82

I would love for someone to crunch the numbers and give us an ROI for the netroots/actblue versus Rahm and Chuck show. Netroots won races with significant less money. Could be a real eye-opener.

Chris Bowers has a good rundown at MyDD. May not have all the detailed numbers you want, but it’s a good comparison piece.

Gnome de Plume @ 82

Nah, aquaria, NH doesn’t have enough sunshine. I just talked with my brother in Western MA. He is thinking of leaving for better climes. His S.A.D. is out of control.

My H.A.D (HadENOUGHSanAntonioSummersThatLast10MonthsAYear Affective Disorder) could go for some rain and seasons.

Gnome de Plume @ 72. I mean baby boomer generation fairly loosely. To me the baby generations height of power was the 1980’s and that is Regan/Bush’s decade. That brand of baby boomer is finished forever as far as dictating the direction of the country. The 60’s radicals are pre baby boomer to me.

SusanD @ 86

LJ/Aquaria @ 28

That was so good, and so true, that reading it made me vibrate. Would you mind if I quote you? I’ll have some faxes to send to Rahm and his guys next week.

Just credit me. All I ask. :)

You are amazing people, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your hard work and inspiration. The Democratic victories that we are seeing come from your hard work and dedication and perseverence.

And what a learning experience! Christy, Jane, TRex, Howie Klein, YouTube, the Authors Round-Tables, ActBlue, Call for Change – look at how much ground the progressive movement has covered since 2004 in bringing great people and great ideas together. These are some seriously capable people doing this stuff, and they’ll be around for a good long time.

And look at what difference it has made.

This is just the beginning. Now the real hard work comes – holding our elected officials accountable (every single one of them) and making sure we do all we can for 2008.

The future starts now.

-GFO

Well, hell. I’m just gonna call Ciro’s office and ask what the inside scoop is on TX-23. I gotta go to bed.

What a great night, great victory. I love you all for your passion and commitment.

GuyFromOhio @ 92

You are amazing people, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your hard work and inspiration. The Democratic victories that we are seeing come from your hard work and dedication and perseverence.

And what a learning experience! Christy, Jane, TRex, Howie Klein, YouTube, the Authors Round-Tables, ActBlue, Call for Change – look at how much ground the progressive movement has covered since 2004 in bringing great people and great ideas together. These are some seriously capable people doing this stuff, and they’ll be around for a good long time.

And look at what difference it has made.

This is just the beginning. Now the real hard work comes – holding our elected officials accountable (every single one of them) and making sure we do all we can for 2008.

The future starts now.

-GFO

ditto!

EPU at 78

not exactly God but close!!

Omniscience has its advantages.

Baby Boomers: 1946 to 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

Thankyou thankyou thankyou

You guys have done so much work, for all the right reasons.
A good job well done.

Thanks to Jane whom I have a crush on and is a wicked good writer.

Thanks to Christy who was the first person I found on the web that seemed to have a human head on her shoulders. I’m proud to have been a firedog since before we knew Redd was Christy.

Then comes Trex and Pach, a true breath of delightful snark.
The commentators are first rate everyne has such a heart.

Thanks and Congratulations to everyone. I’m so happy this morning!

Rahm Emmanuel: Dizzy ballerino.

Yes, hell, yes! Christy, Ned Lamont even made it OK down here in red purple/blue NC to question the war. What a class act. Ned Lamont is a leader. This was not a loss for the Netroots. Through the Netroots this campaign’s message was spread outside of Connecticut and we all have seen the benefits. We were energized and motivated early on by what we saw happening with this campaign and it gave us the encouragement to keep fighting in all the different races we have all been working on in our own states.

Just so you all know – in case you haven’t heard. Larry Kissell is only down 346 votes. There should be an automatic recount triggered. There are several hundred provisional ballots to count as well. Don’t chalk this one up for a loss yet.

Imm – To my credit, I’ve never claimed to be a god (it would be in poor taste given my stone cold atheism), though I thought about being a demagogue, till I realized I’d have to switch parties. ;-)

BoiBoi @ 96

Thanks and Congratulations to everyone. I’m so happy this morning!

Oh, what a beautiful, morning, Oh, what a beautiful day….

Wow Hayduke, I never thought of Reagan as being a baby boomer phenom. I lived in Canada during those years and saw him through that lens. To this day I am amazed at my cohorts who are racist, selfish conservatives. part of me has always been a naive optimist who thinks evil will be defeated.

Hayduke @
75

I have this wonderful picture in my head of Nacny Pelosi standing up to the Ringwath King (Donald Rumsfield) and saying. I AM NO MAN!!! Arrrgggghhh.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Eowyn.

Looks like WY-AL is headed for a recount, even though the last precincts have yet to report. GOP claiming victory, but Dem says “not so fast.”

Allen lost according to Toobin on cnn.

YAY! Go WEBB!

Prof @ 64

LJ/Aquaria @ 37

testaroo @ 10

Good Morning, Aquaria–

What’s the word on VA/MT?

MT:

D Jon TESTER 195,235 49

R Conrad BURNS 193,506 48

Expect a recount.

Automatic recount (paid by the State) if vote is within 1/2 %. With 388,741 votes, that means if margin is fewer than 1,944 votes. Right now, you are showing 1,729, so recount.

My mistake. The rule is 1/4 of 1%, which would be 850 votes.

The Montana election law states:

http://data.opi.state.mt.us/BI…..16-201.htm

(2) If a candidate for a congressional office, a state or district office voted on in more than one county, the legislature, or judge of the district court is defeated by a margin not exceeding 1/4 of 1% of the total votes cast for all candidates for the same position, he may, within 5 days after the official canvass, file a petition with the secretary of state as set forth in subsection (1). The secretary of state shall immediately notify each election administrator whose county includes any precincts which voted for the same office by certified or registered mail, and a recount shall be conducted in those precincts.

sofistic,

Careful what you’re saying about Boomers born between 46 and 55 not being Republicans. You’re talking about the Shrub and Lee Atwater, just to name two.

We turned up the heat and “Bush’s Brain melted down. Visual proof. Karl who?

Um, how are we going to hold Lieberman responsible? He’s in there for life now, like a frigging supreme court justice.

All of us.. I mean all of us have great debt of gratitude to Ned Lamont and his supporters. His uphill campaign through the summer and victory in the primary changed the politics in this country and put Iraq as first, when our gutless leaders in the beltway didn’t want to talk about it. More than anyone Ned Lamont is responsible for the victory this election, despite the outcome in Connecticut. I hope that he knows that and knows the gratitude that I and so many feel. Perhaps it’s small compensation for his sacrifice, but he helped to change everything.

Peterr @ 106

sofistic,

Careful what you’re saying about Boomers born between 46 and 55 not being Republicans. You’re talking about the Shrub and Lee Atwater, just to name two.

every generation has it’s a&&holes

egregious @ 46

Votes for independant candidates played a huge role in many races we followed. They got 4%, 5%, even 10% in one case, enough to let the incumbent win.

When it’s a close race and it really matters, why oh why do people vote for the third party? End of rant, and time for coffee.

One form of potential fraud with electronic voting machines is to shift votes from Democrats to third party candidates. This should be looked at in races where third parties got an unusually large number of votes, outside the historical norm. Count me as a “sore winnerman”.

cbl @ 72

anyone have a final number on Wyoming ?

Trauner
Cubin

wee small hours Trauner refused to concede

Unofficial results from Wyoming Secretary of State’s website are at wyoming elections secretary state and show 905 margin at present.

Hallelujah, LJ Aquaria…

LJ/Aquaria @ 28

So Rahm and Chuck and all the DLC triangulators can just bite me.

As I’ve said in phone calls and emails to my so-called Elected Reps –

Just Bite Me – Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton when you both killed off Russ Feingold’s Censure Resolution of BushCo et. al. cuz a strong censure statement on evil people wasn’t Whipped, Weak and Wimpy enough for a “Democrat” DLC traiangulator. (Chucky and Hillary could not hide quick enuf in their own trash ass-cans when Feingold walked his resolution around the Senate.)

Just Bite Me — When the alleged “mainstream” of the Democratic Party (NOT) did not want Dr. Howard Dean to lead the DNC. Beeyatches only “allowed” Dean at the table when the activists and netroots and Real Democrats in the party threatened to bite their complacent asses off.

Just Bite Me – Hillary, who slid to an easy victory in her Senate re-election … but needs to have a campaign flunky look at those returns on progressives and real Democrats in NYS who voted for the Green Candidate Howie Klein … the guy who does NOT cheerlead for the Iraq War (like Hilly Baby); the guy who does NOT take lobbyist PAC money from Big Pharma and Big Defense Contractors (like Hilly Baby).

Like LJ/Aquaria, I think we are so OVER having this Charm School discussion … make nice … let them keep triangulating … water everything down to mush.

Ned Lamont was not a triangulating mush-mouther. Let’s stop pussyfooting with devils. Let’s stop being nice to the devils’ handmaidens … the Rahm Emmanuels, the Chucky Schumers, the Hillary Billary Clintons. (WATB Lieberman does not even reach the level of Triangulating Wimp; he’s the substrate of Pond Scum below the wimps.)

Any Republican at any level I encounter, my new “How ya doin’?” is now BITE ME.

Thanks FDL, you make a difference. Keep trying to to make the world of evil and cowardly politics world more honest.

Regan wasn’t but the people that put him in power and kept him and G.H.B in power were defiantly baby boomers, that are more what i’m getting at. If you were 20 in the summer of love you weren’t holding office and having political power (other than protesting which is certainly valid), for that generation real political power and voice as far beginning to run things came to a head around 1980.

I don’t want to make this day an age thing. Sorry to sidetrack. Plenty of baby boomers did the right thing yesterday for sure and I stand w/ anyone of any age color or sex that helped stomp out our descent into being fascist theocracy.

From CNN via C&L

Blair is starting to be described as somewhat “nervous” that possible investigations by the House into the Iraq war could be bad for him. I have already talked to friends in the U.K. and they echo this assessment. I got a funny feeling “Downing Street Memos” is a term Tony Blair does not want to hear right now.

Link

If the Dems win the Senate, Pat Roberts ain’t building any more stone walls.

How do you think Jerry Lewis and John Doolittle (among others) are feeling despite their election victories?

Wyoming election law regarding recounts states:

22-16-109. Recounts.

(a) The county canvassing board shall make a recount of precinct votes if it appears to the board that a recount is required due to irregularities in that precinct.

(b) There shall be a recount made of all the votes cast for any office in which the difference in number of votes cast for the winning candidate receiving the least number of votes and the number of votes cast for the losing candidate receiving the greatest number of votes is less than one percent (1%) of the number of votes cast for the winning candidate receiving the least number of votes cast for that office. This recount shall be made in the entire district in which the candidates are standing for election.

(c) There shall be a recount made of all the votes cast for any office if a losing candidate requests one under provision of W.S. 22-16-110. This recount shall be made in the entire district in which the candidate is standing for election.

Ed Gillespie challenging the Webb WIN in VA on cnn.

Unfortunately, I believe there are enough dems that would be MORE than willing to continue to hid the secrets of the Iraq war. Because many of them went along merrily. Did not question ANYTHING.

Lee Hamilton is especially on my bad guys list. He is a mewing appeaser and I will have none of his ‘hide the secret’ schtick.

Anybody experiment with that customizable CNN realtime reporting thingy. My wife has it on her machine, and it is off while she sleeps. What you can do is set up specific races and then track them in near real time.

angie @ 117

Ed Gillespie challenging the Webb WIN in VA on cnn.

I’m ready. Where are we meeting in Va. to make sure they don’t steal it? Start up the buses and everybody grab your pitchfork.

Totally OT– who wants to go update wikipedia with the results?

Chris Matthews has got to be one of the biggest boobs on cable snooze. I have to wonder if the idiotic, rambling stuff that comes out of his mouth ever makes his bosses cringe. What am I saying..boobiness is a requirement for cable news anchors.

Lieberman saying this worries the hell out of me: “I will go to Washington beholden to no one.” Washington Post, Nov 8, A35, don’t know where exactly it is on the Post’s site.

Lamont, you were amazing, and hope you will be again.

Thanks for the updates Peterr & Prof. !

angie @ 119

Ed Gillespie challenging the Webb WIN in VA on cnn.

Sore loser.

Now we can say that the R’s are just bitter, spoilsports who can’t accept defeat at the ballot box and need the intervention of the high paid lawyers.

Hat to to Ken Mehlman for that talking point.

-GSD

Hat tip.

Fox: “Sixteen states voted last night to raise the minimum wage, joining 23 other states that had already done so.”

People power!!!

UptownNYChick @ 121

angie @ 117

Ed Gillespie challenging the Webb WIN in VA on cnn.

I’m ready. Where are we meeting in Va. to make sure they don’t steal it? Start up the buses and everybody grab your pitchfork.

I am right beside you and have lots of family and friends in VA that’ll be happy to host us and provide us with sharpened pitchforks and very fine and toasty torches!

All DevilDog Webb needs to do is place a call to Quantico and Little Creek, and he’ll have a division of battle-hardened Marines at his disposal. C’mon Felix, let’s dance!

Also a referendum on blog apparently

Constantine Stavropoulos, the owner of the cafe, said he had closed its doors for the “blog party,” which the network periodically broadcast and streamed online. He said he expected the bloggers — an attractive bunch, he said — to linger long after the votes were in.

“Bloggers look a lot better than I thought they would,” Mr. Stavropoulos said.

Wapo

Apparrently they were all out of crow.

“He was joined for a dinner of corn bisque and beef loin by political strategist Karl Rove, GOP chairman Ken Mehlman, White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, counselor to the president Dan Bartlett, former Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Brad Freeman, a California venture capitalist and top Bush fundraiser.”

Maybe Deadeye Dick Cheney will have some freshly bagged lawyer for the next bloodfeast.

-GSD

Add another name to the Biggest Losers list.

Rush Limbaugh.

Twisted Martini @ 130

All DevilDog Webb needs to do is place a call to Quantico and Little Creek, and he’ll have a division of battle-hardened Marines at his disposal. C’mon Felix, let’s dance!

hurRAH!

sofistic @ 120

Anybody experiment with that customizable CNN realtime reporting thingy. My wife has it on her machine, and it is off while she sleeps. What you can do is set up specific races and then track them in near real time.

Yes, I was using that yesterday. Today as well. I look at those numbers and also the “official” numbers from the VA and MT websites.

Sorry that blogger quote was NYT
I am so tired, wow.
Going out to lunch now.
Happy Day people! Happy Day!!!

mrsmarks @
129

Fox: “Sixteen states voted last night to raise the minimum wage, joining 23 other states that had already done so.”

People power!!!

Along with the shooting down of the barbaric abortion ban in S.D. there was a Muslim in Wisconsin who won and there were record numbers of openly gay legislators.

About that talking point that this election was a big win for the conservatives.

-GSD

Looking forward today to the Al Franken show, the Daily Show, the Olbermann show and the Colbert Report. Great day to be an American!

finally got Jamie’s site to load and sent in a note of thanks – hope others here will do the same

http://www.intoxination.net/

GSD @ 136

mrsmarks @
129

Fox: “Sixteen states voted last night to raise the minimum wage, joining 23 other states that had already done so.”

People power!!!

Good news all around. Balance.

btw, none of the knuckledraggers in VA would have voted for Felix had it not been for the anti gay disgrace on the ballot. That was his and the thugs GOTV initiative.

We have much more work to do, friends! A civil rights battle right now.

Along with the shooting down of the barbaric abortion ban in S.D. there was a Muslim in Wisconsin who won and there were record numbers of openly gay legislators.

About that talking point that this election was a big win for the conservatives.

-GSD

sorry to mess up your quote, GSD.

(i miss the edit function!)

Christy,

Thanks so much to you and Jane for bringing Ned to our attention. His candidacy was truly inspirational. I hope he will be back.

Christy — Congratulations on changing the direction of the political leadership in DC!

Take a bow, lady! You and Jane, et al – WOW!

Yes, Ned not a U.S. Senator, but no less of a huge influence on changing direction in Iraq and getting rid of K street control in Congress!

Bittersweet? Hell NO!! The House and Senate is
now a different place…FDL played a big role in that happening.

SO, A big THANK YOU to you all! Good on ya!
Looking forward to your future input on issues
important to this country. – JBK

sofistic @ 121

Anybody experiment with that customizable CNN realtime reporting thingy. My wife has it on her machine, and it is off while she sleeps. What you can do is set up specific races and then track them in near real time.

I couldn’t get the customizable thing to work for me – cookies issues, and I didn’t want to spend the time trying to debug it. I went ahead and used CNN’s big 50 state house/senate/gov/ballot prop pages, which were quite good and as close to realtime as anyone’s info. You also could drill down and see county-by-county info, which was quite helpful for me with MO and WY in particular.

Hayduke @ 90

Gnome de Plume @ 72. I mean baby boomer generation fairly loosely. To me the baby generations height of power was the 1980’s and that is Regan/Bush’s decade. That brand of baby boomer is finished forever as far as dictating the direction of the country. The 60’s radicals are pre baby boomer to me.

As a boomer myself, I’d just like to say that we came of age during the civil rights movement, assassinations, vietnam protests, and many of us have never stopped speaking out against the ugliness of the Republicans whether it has been Nixon or Reagan or Bush. Don’t show us the door too quickly, we’ve just finished busting our asses for today’s success and will continue the fight to the end.

And now for some accountability in D.C……rawk on Pelosi

egregious @
58

Webb-Allen as of 10:19et

Webb 1,170,766
Allen 1,162,719
Parker 26,048

Tester-Burns as of 10:45et

Tester 195,235
Burns 193,506
Indep 10,181

Tilt! Tilt!

Brian Felsen @ 110

Um, how are we going to hold Lieberman responsible? He’s in there for life now, like a frigging supreme court justice.

I think he is greatly weakened, and without the Bushes in power in 2008, he will have much less credence. And, this election the Dem leadership was nervous about going against him. Next time, there can be a revisit of the Dem groundswell. Ned missed victory by a very small amount. Who knows with Ned or another candidate what would happen.

StealthBadger @ 126

Lieberman saying this worries the hell out of me: “I will go to Washington beholden to no one.”

Are you going to start believing him now? He is beholden to big pharma ($$$) and to U.S. Mid-East involvement. Two big beholdens, he just doesn’t care whether he votes blue or red. I don’t think he will have much power.

AP just announced Rumsfeld is stepping down! Feel the undertow of the wave, Rummy!

Coming up. “Heck of a job, Rummy.”

Don’t let Rummy out of the country. he has some ’splainin to do.

Democrats pick up Senate seat in Montana
12:47 ET, Wed 8 Nov 2006

Democrat Jon Tester defeated Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana, capturing an important seat in the party’s bid to gain control of the Senate. Full Article

http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx

I’m sorry but a beautiful loser is still just a loser.

Ned Lamont – Couldn’t beat a transparent, Bush-loving, Iraq war loving, lying, phony, faux-republican/democrat, sleazy, career politician in a tsunami blue election cycle in a blue state. Now Joe will tip the senate to the republicans by ditching it for Sec. Def. when Rummy gets tossed.

Thanks Ned, heckuva job taking that vacation after the primary.

But it ain’t just Ned, from my neck of the woods (MN) I present the following.

Patty Wetterling – In an open seat, when the departing congressman simultaneously got his ass blown up in the senate race, couldn’t defeat a clearly deranged, religious whack-job who’s church openly says the Pope is the anti-christ in a solid blue state in a solid blue election cycle in a moderately red district with a very large catholic population. After winning, the first thing out of Bachmann’s mouth was her anti-gay, anti-abortion extreme position that nobody ever called her on in the election. Meanwhile Tim Walz came out of nowhere and trounced a moderate republican incumbent in the neighboring solid red district.

Thanks Patty, you tried but you are a crap campaigner.

And finally our local Dem governor candidate (Mike Hatch) who was the ONLY STATEWIDE DEM FOR ANY SEAT WHO LOST, who had the race in the bag and blew it in the final days.

Thanks Mike really looking forward to 4 more years of Tim Pawlenty.

Oops, looks like I was right Rummy’s gone but wrong on Lieberdick. Maybe Bush will make him fluffer in chief, gotta get that republican appointed senate seat some how.

Late to the party, as usual.

Thanks, Ned and his supporters. You guys pulled the Democratic Party’s power structure out of its lunacy. You made them realize that not talking about Iraq meant not taking a stand on one of the things that Americans felt was most important. You gave us a choice that wasn’t just between Republican and Republicaner.

We’re sorry that you didn’t win, and even sorrier that Lieberman won instead, but you ran your race, and that’s what counts.

Ned’s candidacy had the disadvantages of its advantages:

Ned was singularly courageous and focused in his stand against the war. Because it mattered to him, he was willing to talk about it when the rest of the Dems were afraid to. This changed the country.

But Ned stayed focused on the anti-war idea too long. Not that it should have been abandoned, but people needed a reason to vote for Ned, and not simply against Lieberman and the war.

In not seeing quickly enough that the contest needed to be about more than the war and Lieberman, Ned lost his campaign.

I understand all about the Nixonian slush fund, the umpty-ump millions of Cheney-raised Republican millions from out of state, the complete sellout of Ned by the Dem establishment (who are happy to ride Ned’s coattails, but have no interest whatsoever in having their complicity in the war and the destruction of the country brought to light), but the same tenacity about an ideal that made Ned such a success in his primary victory doomed him in the general election.

And yet in some ways Ned’s loss is important, because it exposes the basic corruption and complicity on both sides.

If Ned had won I can feel I would have been much more willing to believe that things really are better, and in truth, they’re not.

Thank you Ned Lamont. In both victory and defeat, you made and will continue to make America a better place.

Time to start working on Lamont’s next election bid.

heroes don’t always win. more often than not, they only mnake it possible for the rest of us to win.

Hello,

Do we turn a blind eye to Joe’s “street money” now that the Dems control the Senate counting him?

the most galling thing to watch last night was the smug mug lieberman had claiming victory- “beholden to no party”, etc. the fact that he’s a swing vote makes him MORE powerful than he was before the election. i hope the voters in CT who voted for him can stomach him making deals with the republicans- but then again he was doing it before and they still gave him a pass…ahhhh, but that’s the only bitter pill… we lose santorum and burns and allen, but retain lieberdick… unpalatable but not bad in the overall picture… thanks ned, you were a great candidate, next time you’ll be a great campaigner, but thanks still.

I don’t believe Lieberman won instead of Ned Lamont. But anyway we won the house and the senate. I’m still concerned about someone saying that this is just temporary because the conservatives are mad at Pres. Bush. What I want to suggest is for democrats to be moderate instead of far left so that our reign will not be temporary and we can possibly win the Presidential election come 2008. I’m a republican who voted Ned Lamont and other democratic candidates to protest of what is happening with the republicans. Mostly our family and relatives are republicans or conservatives and you know there are many conservatives who are angry and voted the democratic candidates. Cristy please convince the democrats to be not too far left or too liberal but not too conservative, just moderate so that all of us moderate republicans can fit in with the democratic ideals and instead of going back to vote republicans next time when the party makes a turn to reform. Thank you.

I believe that Ned Lamont is the critical factor, however buried, in the dismissal of Rumsfield. I could not vote for Lamont, I cannot thank him enough for his committment.

My thanks to Christy, Jane and the rest of the FDL group who worked hard and pushed the Iraq War to the forefront of issues in this election. Ned’s loss is unfortunate but not a reflection on the work of this group. My thanks also to Ned and his campaign staff and the most engaging and imagniative political ads I have ever seen. I hope we see more of them in future campaigns.

Herb you are a total asshole!!!!!