It’s 10:32pm; do you know where your party is?

November 7, 2006

If you’re a Dem, it’s in a pretty good spot right now.

In New York, Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Cuomo were big winners.

In Maryland, Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley (D) will beat Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R).

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Ed Rendell (D) apparently beat Lynn Swann (R) by a large margin.

In some key House race news, Paul Hodes (D) has beaten Rep. Charles Bass (R) in New Hampshire’s 2nd, Chris Murphy (D) has defeated Rep. Nancy Johnson (R); and in one of those House races Dems have been trying to get for years, Rep. Anne Northup (R) will lose to John Yarmuth (D) in Kentucky’s 3rd.

On a disappointing note, Charlie Crist (R) will apparently succeed Jeb Bush (R) as Florida’s next governor, beating Jim Davis (D).

Virginia’s Senate race is remarkably close, with just 1% difference. If the margin is less than 1% with all precincts reporting, there’s an automatic recount, which at this point, seems fairly likely.

So far, Republicans haven’t picked up a Dem seat anywhere — not in the Senate, not in the House, not in the governors’ races.

Now , if we can just get Lieberman to shut his mouth, we’ll be on the way!

  • Did you notice in Virginia a Green Party Candidate has polled 25,000 votes? Yet again these idiots who waste their votes might stick us with Allen for 6 more years.

  • Good news: Looks like Dems are going to pick up a Congressional seat in Kansas. Nancy Boyda leads Republican Jim Ryun. Sebelius won re-election. New Democratic Party convert Paul Morrison may also win the Attorney General’s race over wingnut Phill Kline.

    Bad news: Missouri’s a mess. St. Louis, St. Louis County and Kansas City are having trouble tabulating votes. And the city of Joplin in far southern Missouri ran out of ballots (!!!!). Goddamn hillbillies.

    I may have to move to Kansas.

  • No one cares but J. Hostetller (R-IN) is out on his mangy arse. I enjoyed my time in the Land o’ Hoosiers, even though some of it was spent shouting curses whenever this mega-creep’s face appeared on TV or in print.

    Out and fie upon thee devil!

  • Even though it wasn’t much of a surprise, I did a little dance when J-Ho flamed out.
    Thanks for the kind words, TAiO…

  • Quick tally: 43 Dems are leading in House races over 34 Reps leading and others are tied.

    In Senate 6 Dems leading 2Reps leading. 2 Independent leading

  • CBS has Dems up 11 in the House. — rege, at 5

    11 is no effin’ good. We need 15, minimum, what with the Senate race still wobbly. I shall, happily, wring Ms Parker’s scrawny neck *personally* if Webb loses by the 1.1% that she’s got. The dimwit FMK9 (read: a femme canine) “somewhat endorsed” Webb 2 days ago. But, of course, it’s way too late…

  • brainiac–
    The Joplin sotry made me want to vomit. And KC and StL having issues is nothing new.

    Although, how bad is it that even I — who once suggested that Kansas be surrounded by a 50-foot wall and filled with water … and some trout, maybe a few bass and perch — am considering a move across State Line Road?

    Of course, now that the housing bubble burst, I may actually be able to afford such to do so.

    🙂

  • My party’s in the catbird seat.

    Charlies got the Fla. Guv’s job by avoiding Bush.

    Anyway, I have my own observations on tonight’s election, including a Youtube video shot in my own house at how toxic Bush has been to the GOP this election cycle.

  • UPDATE IN MISSOURI:

    Apparently, the geniuses at KC election headquarters were busy running absentee ballots, rather than the memory cards and/or standard ballots. Add in the nuts from ACORN, and they had to make sure all the stuff was legit.

    The votes from KC are coming in quick.

    McCaskill went from 13% down to 6% in about 20 minutes. Hopefully, St. Loser will get their crap together and she’ll start coming out ahead.

    **looks toward sky and says, “please!”**

  • All hail Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California!!!

    The Democrats have just taken 16 seats!!!!!!

    Here in California, Richard Pombo is running behind with30% of the votes counted, and Francine Busby is neck and neck with Bilbray!!!

    Outside of Ahhhhhh-nuld, no Republican is winning anything here in California!!!

    Only 50% of voters 18-29 supported Ahhhnuld – it’s my dimwit generation that’s voting for him. (Smart personable guy as I can attest personally, knowing him in Hollyweird, but still a damn Republican).

  • Here is ABC on the Ford/Corker race.

    Republican Bob Corker held a lead Tuesday over Democrat Harold Ford Jr., who was trying to become the first black senator elected in the South since Reconstruction.

    With 63 percent of precincts reporting, Corker had 685,292 votes, or 51.7 percent, and Ford had 623,704 votes, or 47 percent. But those results did not reflect most of the votes from Memphis and Nashville, where Ford was expected to draw his heaviest support.

  • Damn, that Crist looks like a comer. Ditching Dubya paid off. Not to mention that to your average florida trailer trash or senile retiree, the last name would look awfully familiar.

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