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  • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway
  • Finrod

    Inevitably they’re such a drag on my browser that even if the app itself is usable, it slows down the browser on my netbook so much that it becomes unusable for anything else.

  • tjpeco

    I don’t know what to feel. I guess I was expecting way to much.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
    • http://www.incredibleco.ning.com Incredible

      Buck pulled it out! Woo Hoo. (I know that nobody has called this yet). Look at the counted counties – Boulder and Denver. El Paso hasn’t even started and rural, red counties haven’t even started. We have this one in the bag.

      • Finrod

        Last update saw Buck’s lead drop from 20K votes to 5K. I hope he can hold on.

        • Finrod

          63 percent of its precincts are in, and 82K votes there are in, and they’re more than 2:1 for Bennet. I’m just guessing at this, but back-of-the-envelope math estimates that there are still 50K more votes there that could produce at least a 15K vote margin for Bennet. I don’t know if there’s enough votes for Buck in the rest of the state to overcome that.

          • Finrod

            It’s not even half counted and went nearly 3-1 for Bennet so far.

            I hope I’m wrong but this one could disappear out from under us at the end here.

          • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

            The remaining votes are in Boulder County, and there’s no way Buck pulls more votes there than Bennet.

            Colorado did not do well yesterday, but we made a few important gainst (CD-3, CD-4, State House).

          • chihank

            Thus, the CO GOP won’t be relegated to minority status.

          • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

            Regardless of whether or not we get the 10%.

          • IJB

            All I can get out of this site is that the composition of the CO Legislature is undecided, and could go either way…

          • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

            Senate is undecided. We took two for sure, 5 & 11 are still too close to call, but at least one of them is going the wrong way late.

  • aesthete

    without the posts showing up 30 minutes later :P

    • acat
    • http://www.incredibleco.ning.com Incredible

      I thought those guys did an outstanding job, considering. That was the most fun I’ve ever had on a website.

    • Bill S

      For a good part of the evening, I was the only moderator, which meant I was the only one approving comments. I couldn’t just turn them on unmoderated, as I was catching troll comments here and there and filtering out the duplicates. There was about a 30 min interval when I had to go run an errand and the comments just didn’t get approved.

      I had to get up this morning to drive 6 hours to a meeting, so I had to cut it off early. My apologies to the West Coasters for screwing them on coverage.

      Caleb and most of the other contribs/mods were off doing other podcasts, live blogs, etc. We did our best. Sorry about the delays…

  • http://politicalfriendsblog.com andyd

    but not the GOP. In spite of some of the disappointments, I am very happy that Nancy won’t have her power for much longer. If the GOP comes close, perhaps there might be a DNC defection or two….

  • Raven

    A nice simple, easy to read list of everyone by state (alphabetical) order?

    The “interactive” maps on Fox and CBS are virtually useless, I don’t have cable TV and CoverIt is even worse than the “interactive” maps.

  • howardbeale
  • SIConservative
    • gekster
      • SIConservative

        Russ Carnahan is up less than 600 votes.

        • itrytobenice

          StL reported late, as usual, with enough to tie it up for him.

          It was surprisingly close though. Hopefully he’ll get another challenge in two years.

          • IJB

            ;)

  • The_Rebel

    Philly has been holding out reporting on 40 precincts, trying to find enough dead people to pull it out.

    • Common_Cents
  • proudmarinemom

    asked us all to go to work tomorrow morning to ensure the recognition of his victory in VA-11.

    On my way home from the “victory party” just now, I heard Gerry Connolly on the radio, saying that he had won, basically that Hope won over Fear and that the tea party deserves only contempt.

    That is how Democrats treat their fellow Americans. We are beneath them and they are not in office to serve us. Where di we get the idea that our “Representatives” would represent us?

    Tomorrow we will try to find out why voting machines in the Saratoga and Lorton areas of our district malfunctioned and prevented voters from voting for Fimian. Absentee ballots, like the one from my Marine son, may or may not be counted, depending on what Democrat is running the show.

    Connolly does not care about Virginians or Americans having their voices heard. I refuse to recognize him.

    • OccamsRazor

      First, God Bless your Marine Son.

      Second, don’t give them an inch. Thankyou for your courage, commitment, and prowess at the ballot, in the streets, and here at RedState.

      Politics is war and tonight we only won a battle.

      Personally, I’m gonna rest and tomorrow start anew.

      ‘We have just begun to fight’.

      • proudmarinemom

        of encouragement.

        I am almost despondent.

        I have to remember the words of some poet whose name escapes me:

        I am a little bloodied,
        But I am not slain.
        I lay me down for to bleed a while,
        Yet,
        I will rise and fight with you again!

        God, grant me strength.

    • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

      civil_truth[at]yahoo.com (substitute @ for [at])

      with campaign contacts. I’m trying to do what I can to rustle up help, but they need to know who to contact.

      • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

        In case others here have contacts who can help provide people who can help secure machines, and other step to prevent further compromise of the machines.

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    As of this post, the margin for Mr. Scott is 1.5% with about 85-90% in

    We’re in recount and lawsuit territory.

    • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

      Scott — 49.01%

      Sink — 47.57%

      • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

        Scott — 49.0 %

        Sink — 47.6 %

        • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

          Scott — 48.9

          Sink — 47.7

          The attorneys are in their BMW’s racing to Trailerhassee.

          Alex Sink is screaming at the top of her gun-grabbing lungs that the first thing she’s going to do when she steals the state is elected governor will be to invalidate all carry permits and put the kabosh on the castle doctrine.

          • CincoSolas_del_Bronx
          • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

            I’ve stopped playing games long ago.

            No tin-foil hats, no over the top nonsense.

          • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

            There are now approximately 72,000 votes separating Scott who’s leading and Sink.

            The fix is in…… votes are turning up via alligator express and the orange flying service.

            And yeah…… It’s Palm Beach County – again – somehow late with turning in all their ballots/machines – again.

          • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon
  • treeofliberty

    Fox called Nevada for Reid…please God say it ain’t so!!!

    • neum432

      my opinion….Angle was a bad candidate

      • redtillimdead

        But we couldn’t be happy with Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden. Oh no, we had to go with sharron Angle, because itd be better to have Reid in the Senate than a solid conservative like Lowden or Tarkanian because they were supported by the establishment. Thanks alot guys.

        • IJB
        • proudmarinemom

          ..

        • seattlebruce

          Look, this is not the only thing that happened tonight by a LONG shot and while disappointing, Conservatives made GREAT gains in the House (+65 or so and growing?), the Senate +7 to 9 depending on your count, and the Statehouses which will affect redistricting.

          As to the Tea Party candidates – Rand Paul and Marco Rubio won big. Pat Toomey won. Many House races all over the place were supported and jettisoned by the Tea Parties all over the country. Buck could still win. Rossi could still win. Joe Miller could still win.

          Let’s not focus on the negative – when there’s SO MUCH positive. Can we improve? Always…but it was and will be a very important and good night.

      • quasimofo

        Guess those Service Employees International Union members that maintained the voting machines did their job well. Will there be an investigation over all the voting irregularties being reported? I doubt it.

      • gekster

        how many people didn’t notice?

        • quasimofo
  • msctex

    The race has been called, yet Boxer is essentially tied, with something like 19% reporting. That is WAY too much uncounted to assume a thing, and Brown is as well only up by about 5%.

    Am I missing something?

    • redtillimdead

      Since CA is so blue, they will win. They were cllaed before any results came through. This is far from over

      • msctex

        Even the TownHall site is showing Brown and Boxer as having already won, though tied. Who made the call? Boxer is still in a dead heat, and Brown is not up by a comfortable margin.

      • howardbeale

        A candidate is projected as the winner, even though a fraction of precints reporting show the contender ahead.

        As of the time I write this message, Carly has a slight lead, but if the remaining precincts are expected to go blue, then they must have picked Boxer on that basis.

        • msctex

          . . .with 80% uncounted? That’s an enormous number.

          Seems a little presumptuous, no matter which way it would be aimed. And if what I head about the early votes coming from the San Fran north is in fact the case, this could get very interesting.

          • howardbeale

            If you are Republican in CA, you have to win LA County or at least do well enough or it’s pretty much over in a statewide race. If they have exit polling data in LA County that doesn’t look good for Carly, then that may be why.

          • msctex

            Too bad. CA is now doomed to be a Progressive experiment, and those always go so well . . .

          • seattlebruce

            It’s going to be even more horrible now…Perhaps as the rest of the country recovers and CA is left behind they’ll finally get it?

          • treeofliberty

            Why did Fox call Connecticut for the Democrat when the Republican is ahead by 4 points with now 70% of the vote in? Even if the Democrat wins it surely will be a squeaker

            I really, really hope those fancy, schmancy computer models are dead wrong on a couple of these races

          • treeofliberty

            eom

          • IJB
  • gekster

    more to come.

  • patriot601

    California, Nevada and New York is GONE! They have no hope and deserve what they get. Boxer, Brown, REID, Gillibrand, Cuomo, Schumer! All of this for Reid to win again. We lost the biggest national races with Reid being the biggest one. What does that say for the country?

    • treeofliberty

      Yes winning the House was sweet, very sweet but it appears that the sky high expectations I and others had were somewhat misplaced… I mean I always thought West Virginia would be a tough fight but 10 points?? really?? And Nevada going for Reid is just disgusting

      I guess I should be happy Toomey and Kirk managing to eek out victories. Super proud of Florida let’s make sure they don’t steal the gov race there.

    • izoneguy

      30% Unemployment….and loss of more tax revenue as business owners close shop and move to Texas and other states that are still sane.

  • Common_Cents
    • izoneguy

      Kalifornia is a lost cause. Let’s see how Obama tries to prop them up with a Republican controlled House…..LOL…….as a matter of fact….
      ROTFLMAO……………

  • zipbags

    Angle had a 1-4pt lead. And she is now losing by 5pts. Thats a difference of between 6 and 9pts. WTF?? Something is shady.

    • neum432

      Angle just could not close the deal…need a better candidate next time to beat a majority leader

      • proudmarinemom

        …

        • neum432
          • proudmarinemom

            I meant it. You are messing with a Marine’s mom.

            Get the hell off this site. Now.

          • neum432

            Really, this was a good night…but Angle was a bad candidate. Reid should have lost on a night like this. Angle just could not close the deal. Not being a good politician is not necessarily a bad thing! I’m proud of her effort.

          • proudmarinemom

            Where is the blam stick?

          • Finrod

            .

  • IJB

    How the heck did awful Quinn leapfrog Alexi G.?!?!!

    • cookcountyconservative

      “We’re going to make sure that every vote in the state is counted. We’re going to make sure that happens. We’re going to make sure that this process is done right,” said Brady, who told supporters at a Bloomington hotel ballroom to go home.

      With 98 percent of precincts counted, unofficial totals showed Quinn with an 8,200-vote lead as the two candidates hovered around 46 percent as returns rolled in from downstate. A trio of third-party candidates had a combined 8 percent.

      Of the remaining precincts, more than half were in Chicago or suburban Cook County, Democratic territory that has been breaking big for Quinn all night.

    • Brian Hibbert

      But to answer your second question first…. Quinn got a bigger share than Gianoulias because Alexi G. had some VERY obvious ethical problems that Quinn doesn’t have. The whole loans to mobsters thing was something even a lot of Democrat voters couldn’t compensate for.

      Quinn currently has a slight lead over Brady according to the Tribune count with 97% of the vote in. It’s close enough that it could easily shift back to Brady.

      Frankly Quinn ran some devastating negative ads against Brady that weren’t well answered. Also Brady needed to explain his financial plans better. The Democrats were able to spin what he had said into all kinds of impossible sounding plans. Finally there were 3 other candidates in the race who split the vote. If any of them weren’t in the race, the results would likely be different right now. Frankly, if the Libertarian wasn’t in the race, we’d be celebrating Gov Brady right now. Instead, it’s going to be a long wait while we wait for absentee votes, etc.

      On the GOOD NEWS front, we’ve won many other major battles in this state. In my area, my friend Mike Unes upset a long term incumbent for a state house seat in one of the most expensive and nastiest races in the state (close to $2m spent on this race). The people of Illinois won a victory with this one.

      Adam Kinzinger, Bobby Schilling and others took back US house seats. My congressman Aaron Schock won re-election by a huge margin. And all my local candidates won. Unfortunately, our friend Joel Pollack did not win in IL-9.

      Overall this is a good night. What will make it excellent is if Bill Brady ends up on top when that final 3% is counted.

  • SIConservative

    In my home CD, NY-13, Mike Grimm dropped Mike McMahon even though McMahon had the endorsement of popular Conservative Party Borough President Jim Molinaro.

    • IJB

      As is winning NY-24, which most analysts had lately said we wouldn’t win.

      • libertarianphilip

        Blake Farenthold (R) ousts Solomon Ortiz (D) incumbent; (13 terms at 27 long years) by a margin of 799 votes. Not an upset by many standards but a significant change in this district.

        Also out with the trash is Solomon Ortiz, Jr. at former represenative in our now cleaner Capitol Building in entertaining Austin, TX.

        Abel Herrero (D) faced defeat at the hands of Connie Scott (R) a Texas Lady who, while she doesn’t have the traditional ‘big Texas hair, is rumored to be a pretty good shot with the firearms.

        It was a busy night and there is much more, also interesting, information.

        Save for two, it was a clean sweep for the Republicans, including several Hispanic Republicans. Wise eyes would pay attention to this interesting shift in cultural patterns with this popular demographic.

  • zipbags

    It seems to be coming down to Palm Beach County…again.

  • Common_Cents
  • septembergurl

    We will pick up 70+ in the House that is HUGE, in addition to knocking off Skelton, Spratt, etc. We have won in Ohio, PA, Michigan, NY, etc. We might still knock off Oberstar, he is leading by about 3% now.

    Face it, the Senate was stacked so we needed a dozen great candidates, we had half that. We still held all our seats and picked up 6, maybe 8 if all goes well in Colorado & WA. We needed WVa and Nevada, we didn’t get them. Still a great night.

    Arg. Alaska coming in, “Total Write-In ” winning, Joe second. Come on!

  • treeofliberty

    Possibly the luckiest Demorat out there..

    We all remember how he “won” his seat in the 1st place with Dede Scuzzy taking away just enough votes to give him the edge, now tonight he wins by about 3700 votes over the Republican Doheny HOWEVER the conservative independent candidate (Hoffman) took nearly 10,000 votes.

    If the NY GOP can ever get their act together and unite behind one (strong conservative) candidate we meant just be able to send that fraud Owens a pink slip

    *In fairness to Mr. Hoffman, he did withdraw from the race and endorse Doheny, however it was too late for his name to be withdrawn from the ballot. This obviously hurt the Republican in a tight race with Obamacare dunce Owens.

  • zipbags

    And says he will fight harder. Did he not see what happened tonight?

    • eeisok

      the better it is for Republicans.

      http://www.libradex.com/viewArticle.aspx?id=82

      GOP can not pass any effective legislation with Obama and an even Senate. They can PREVENT 100% of Obama’s legislation however.

      And with a visible Reid, GOP can block Obama and have Reid be the cover.

      http://www.libradex.com/viewArticle.aspx?id=82

  • IJB

    Matheson is still up 2%, but that’s with only 47% in, and his lead has been narrowing the whole time.

    We couldn’t take out Dan Boren (or apparently Ben Chandler) tonight – but I’ll settle for taking out Minnick, Spratt, Skelton, Bright, Taylor, and Matheson… ;)

  • IJB

    :(

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    Should have been: ‘The biggest they are, the harder they fall.”

  • victrola

    Where we lost, we lost not because of our ideals, but because the people we put up were not top tier.

    The voters that decide elections vote for the individual/

    Remember that when you vote in a primary, if they can’t actually WIN, it doesn’t matter how conservative they are.

    • mikefrey

      Exhibit A: Look at the tremendous accomplishment and the many non-establishment wins tonight. Americans are just finding their voice and their power.

      We will change the game. The winner won’t be the one who brings home the most, it will be the one who most restores the country to its God-ordained and rightful path of freedom.

    • Doc Holliday

      ignoring all the wins and the huge victory tonight. Too easy to say we picked the wrong people when we had so many victories. The media will always try to make every Republican out to be a bad candidate, they believe it too because if you are Republican something must be wrong with you.

      optional second response:

      save it.

      • eeisok

        That said, I’m glad Angle and O’Donnell won. I agree with this article:
        http://www.libradex.com/viewArticle.aspx?id=82

        But not only that, they scared GOP leadership. Just think, quasi-3rd party conservative (non-establishment) candidates WON the primary.

        GOP will be forced to deal with the Tea Party as a legitimate force and address Tea Party issues going forward.

        They will have to.

        • eeisok

          :)

        • cwilson

          Can’t find the link, but they showed Coons over Castle by 1%.

          • eeisok

            Many more people could have been motivated to vote for Castle than vote O’ Donnell, which would have been reflected in the exit polls.

            Conversely there could be a lot more Coons voters that actually were motivated to vote (and voted) because O’Donnell was on the ballot compared to Castle.

            Clearly Castle would have done much better, and it’s very likely Castle would have won.

            But like I said, winning the majority of the House 10x better than winning the Senate because of the Senate’s filibuster. As that article points out (link above), it’s actually optimal to only win the House because the press/Dems (is there a difference?) can’t say “GOP Congress”. They have to say GOP House…and DEMOCRATIC Senate.

            Because we can stop Obama’s agenda yet don’t control both houses, it puts us at an advantage for 2012.

            In reality, 50% +1 in the House is almost equal to 60% in the Senate.

  • IJB
    • howardbeale
    • Finrod

      Black voters in general wouldn’t vote Republican even if it was Jesus Christ (R) vs Lucifer (D) on the ballot.

  • Doc Holliday

    This race could have been won with just a tiny bit more effort and a tiny bit more money. The GOTV plan was not good. But don’t want to blame the campaign or active conservatives that overlooked this race. I blame the people that sat on their asses at home and didn’t vote.

    Good job Keith, you came very, very close in a district full of left wing carpet baggers.

  • howardbeale

    So I listened to Barbara Boxer’s victory speech

  • proudmarinemom

    OMG.

    I put my heart and soul into this contest.

    My family business will fold now that Connolly has declared victory (unfairly). He could not care less about us because we are not in his voting base. We are white, Christian conservatives who do not matter.

    Tax away, Mr. Connolly. we are finished in Virginia.

    • Doc Holliday

      conservatives crushed the left wing dream that the Old Dominion was turning purple. I know it is hard to lose when this race could have been won. Connolly is the head of a statist democrat machine with all the advantages, they have government unions, left wing democrats working for Obama, they have the press etc.

      Cheer up Marine Mom, don’t get too down. We won the House of Representatives tonight! You have a Republican executive branch in VA. All is not lost.

      • proudmarinemom

        except that if you pay employment taxes here, you’re screwed.

        I believed, but …

      • proudmarinemom

        except that if you pay employment taxes here, you’re screwed.

        I believed, but …

  • eeisok

    Correspondingly, the worst thing for Democrats

    Best outcome for Republicans for 2010-20111, as well as prep for 2012 if they play their cards right…

    Read here:

    http://www.libradex.com/viewArticle.aspx?id=82

    • Doc Holliday

      the author expects REPUBLICAN defections? guy has no clue.

      • eeisok

        It states EVEN WITH defection, GOP can block ALL of Obama’s agenda. Do you think 100% of Republicans in the House will side with Republican leadership 100% of the time?

        Possible, but unlikely.

        • Doc Holliday

          either way, the analysis is bad. You know why? WE have Harry Reid for six more years.

          to me defection means party switching.

          • eeisok

            The point is that winning the House by such a large margin means what the article states:

            1 Neuters Obama
            2 Primes GOP for 2012 and beyond since Dems will still control Presidency AND Senate

          • eeisok

            on certain votes. THere will always be party switches but those are rare; much more common are Dems voting with the Repubs and vice versa on particular bills.

            Yes, we have Harry Reid. But Reid didn’t initiate ANY of the leftist legislation. Pelosi, Obey, and other libs in the HOUSE did. House Dems passed the public option. They passed cap and trade. Those both failed in the Senate.

            So the Senate is quite a bit more moderate/less liberal than the House even yesterday.

            Now that we won a bunch of Senate seats, it will be even MORE watered down. You still have Ben Nelson in the Senate and other moderate Dems.

            No liberal legislation will pass, Reid or not. Reid knows this already.

  • treeofliberty

    That would cheer me up some, Reid getting re elected has really stunned and disappointed me. He should have gone down tonight.

    Here’s hoping Oberdummy gets the boot

  • bk

    It’s almost exactly tied and all 75 precincts left are in Cook County. These must be the ones they held off on in case they needed to find some extra boxes.

    • eburke

      that weren’t sent out on time will be counted?

  • chihank

    For the past year on Hannity, Dick Morris was telling Fox News viewers that the GOP can win 80-100 House seats & 10-12 Senate seats.