Florida results open thread...

...I know by posting my third diary on MyDD that I broke the rule on a limit of two diaries per day, so I deleted my earlier diary about Hillary's radio ads in Atlanta.

In Florida, the Secretary of State's office (you know, that office that was vilified in the aftermath of the 2000 election) has a website up where you can track the results; and some results are already coming in.

Here's what we're seeing so far:

Democrats

Hillary Clinton - 5,516 or 63.1%

Barack Obama - 1,492 or 17.1%

John Edwards - 1,387 or 15.9%

Republicans

John McCain - 6,225 or 31.0%

Mitt Romney - 5,987 or 29.8%

Rudy Guiliani - 4,089 or 20.3%

Mike Huckabee - 2,530 or 12.6%

Alright folks, have at it and keep it civil.

   

There's more...

Some Early Thoughts

Webb won the Virginia exit poll 52-48, so expect a close race there, with Webb slightly favotred. The early voting is coming in primarily from the heavy Republican areas of the state.

IN-08 looks almost certyainly like a pickup. KY-03 looks pretty good too. KY-04, not so much. The other races in KY and IN look very close.

Still hard to tell waht is going to happen.

Kentucky and Indiana

I'm watching returns from Kentucky and Indiana over at the CNN web page. Anyone got a better site?

Also, an exit poll of some kind shows Democrat Yarmuth winning KY-03 by 51-47, with 2% refusing to answer. That was the race I was looking at as the bellwether for months.
  • Yarmuth leads KY-03 51.1%--47.6% with 15% reporting. That would be just, friggin' huge.
  • Yarmuth still leads 51%-48%, with 37% reporting.
  • Northup (R) takes a very slight lead, 50-49, by about 400 votes, with 55% reporting. I don't know what areas are left, and to whom they are favorable.

Prelude to Results Thread

We should start seeing some numbers from Kentucky and Indiana in thirty minutes or so. And so it begins.

Some Exit Poll Information

This is what I am hearing so far:No TIVO, so from memory - 42% of those polled said corruption is an important issue to them. I would think that would make Democrats excited and Republicans hang their head. 40% Terrorism, 39% economy, 37 % Iraq.

Those polled thought that either Dems or Republicans could handle the terrorism. So there's no solace there for the right. And those polled claim that they want to leave Iraq, a position favored by about 56% of voters. Another good Democratic sign.

National issues favor local issues 2-1. If this election were more local, the story went, it would be bad for Democrats. These numbers, therefore, are huge for Dems. Could be good, could be bad. I'm not thrilled about the numbers on Iraq.

More: Voters diapprove of Congress by a 36-62 margin. The exit polls seems to be of key Senate races--not sure if this is a national poll or not.

Yet More: I was looking at a CNN poll from mid-October that asked voters a battery of issues, and if they were "important" to them or not. Bascially, every issue came out as "important." I think this is the same type of question they asked here, and thus I think the issue exit poll information that has been released so far has been useless.

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