by Jerome Armstrong, Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 08:06:47 PM EST
ABC is reporting that with 80% of the vote in, McCaskill leads Talent in MO by about 14K votes. You can watch the MO SOS website as McCaskill takes the lead.
51 seats is now in reach.
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51 is in reach...until Lieberman flips to Republican.
Anyone think that won't happen?
Wedgies for every CT Democrat who voted for him.
I don't... It would be stupid for him to do... Unless they offer him Minority leader, he can get whatever seat he wants from the Dems. Unless he plans on retiring 6 years from now, a GOP switch has a good chance of ending Lieberman. He has little to gain and more to lose by switching.
Hmm... or Condi gets moved to Def and Liebs takes SOS... either/or THAT is a scenario much more believable to me.
No chance he gives up 4 years of officeholding to be SecDef. He realizes he'll never rise above the rank of Senator, having been shot down twice for VP/President, and he'll fight to hold onto his seat for as long as he can.
Thanks for giving us hope. I don't know though.
NV-03 is off to a promising start
J Porter (I) R 47.1%
T Hafen D 52.9%
33% of precincts counted
http://www.ksdk.com/news/elections/resul ts110706/race10.htm
Stem Cell Initiative is Losing with 71% counted but that will change too as the urban votes come in.
I might have missed something... but what's up with Maryland?
http://www.elections.state.md.us/electio ns/2006/results/general/office_US_Senato r.html
I have no clue how to read these numbers. I can see that Baltimore hasn't reported in yet, so I'm not too worried, but is Cardin underperforming?
The Missouri SOS has Talent in the lead. But the vote totals are significantly lower than what CNN is showing on its site. What gives?
Has anyone been comparing them before? Has this been going on all night? Is CNN just aggregating counties faster than the SOS?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I believe that CNN is compiling local reports generated by AP, and the AP gathers data locally, much faster than the SOS. Here is a media link that is also faster than the SOS:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/elections/resul ts110706/race10.htm
I just wanted to know if anyone knew for sure.
I guess that many SOSs are still in the stone age, where updating their stats every half hour is considered rapid. So if the counties update sporadically, rather than in lock-step, its easy for the SOS to be the last to know.
But, again I'm speculating.
Anyway, the MO SOS has caught up a bit, and now shows McCaskill ahead, too, even if the totals still lag.
Strange...CNN has the Maryland Senate race already being called for Cardin: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/ results/states/MD/
I would also add that with the Senate in play, I will not be going to sleep tonight.
If you look at the county wide senate voting I would just about conclude that McCaskill will WIN easily!! St. Louis County is just one huge one that favors her and they still have over 1/2 their votes to come in. We get that one!!
Lets bring home the Virginia win, I think Webb gets a larger lead from the looks of the county voting but the recount is pretty much a sure thing that will just slow down our takeover!
Montana results are still pending but things are looking as good as we could ever hope for right now. I have not studied Montana but the results so far are encouraging. Needs more research though as to if the repubs can come back from the deficit but I doubt it with the way the night is going.
If I was a betting man, Frist (R) took that away from me, I would surely jump on the Democrats to take the Senate right now. Things just look too good when you look at county by county voting trends. McCaskill is a lock now, Webb is the tight one but he should end the night at least 5K votes up.
It's looking like we got 52 seats.
The 52nd? Well, I'm sure Napolitano will appoint a Democrat to take McCain's place after his suicide. Heh.
Okay, here's the front end list of the neocon redstate.com site.
(With firewall shields up at 100%.)
(Observe that these folks think it's 12:43 PM EST!!! Behind the times a bit, kids?)
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SPECIAL ELECTION HEADLINES AT 12:43 PM EST
+ SAY HELLO TO SPEAKER PELOSI... MAJOR NETWORKS CALL HOUSE FOR DEMOCRATS...
Anyone know how the TX-22 special election worked? Lampson's not on the SOS page at all for that one.
Looks like Dave Loebsack may have won in IA-02. That would complete a three-district sweep.
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/ele ction_results/2006_1107/024.htm
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/ele ction_results/2006_1107/028.htm
Looks like GA 8 and 12 might hold... Cnn is not up to date.
Tester was up 15K, now down to 10k with 40% of the precincts unreported. Hope it doesn't slip any further....
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/nov20 06/l_02.htm
With 10 Precints left - Webb is up by almost 5K.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults .asp?eid=189&oid=43310&arc=
Claire's lead grows...
Can't find an official page for Montana.
Official Montana site:
http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elec tions/general/ussenate/index.asp
McCaskill, Tester, and Webb will win, barring backroom vote stealing. Claire claiming victory now. Great move, following Webb. Way to show strength Dems. Good sign for our new Senators.
I have to assume that Provisional Ballots go Webbs way in Virginia... I have to think more Dems would use them.
K, was worrying a little about Tester but it looks good. He just has to continue to carry the Silver Bow county and Yellowstone like he has so far and he will win the race.
The votes left in Webb vs. Allen are basically Fairfax votes which are Webb, Webb and more Webb.
The votes left in the McCaskill race are St. Louis County and Jefferson where she will only add to her lead.
I wanna say done deal but will just say as long as something sneaky does not happen int he Webb race then it is a done deal.
For the Lampson race, you had to write in SKG and I am actually amazed how well she did with that. The area he won in was a very RICH area so that probably accounts for him not beating her much more badly.
McCaskill is up by 40K with 400 precints left... Woo Hoo... COme on CNN declare!
CNN has declared McCaskill the winner in Missouri
Webb's lead in Virginia continues to grow-- 12,000 now if my math is right!
McCaskill is no superlefty. In favor of Death Penalty. But you hear her speak, she is not afraid to stick up for the party and refused to take the bait from the TV folk on John Kerry today. She did not back down on the iraq war talk. Maybe the Fords and OBamas can learn from her on how to be charismatic and not sell out your party.
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