US POLITICS election/post-election edition: your country will improve immediately.

Glad I could help!

speaking of exit polls Andrew Sullivan posts some data that's as bewildering as the stuff I read in 2008.

Tea Party, the GOP equivalent of a WWF "rebellion"

hahah yeah, mostly. but it is the case that had GOP nominated whoever that other nevada candidate was, and castle in delaware, they'd be winning those races going away prob

the new Congress is going to be way better than WWF. And more fake.

chris wallace has a writeboard and says the GOP could pick up 60 in the house

hi, Don!

538 is saying 55-56 at the moment - on the back of bigger House wins in Indiana than expected…

theoretically this should be a heavy drinking night, if i didn't have so much work

I'm on my third glass of wine and will switch to shoe polish if necessary.

and I don't even have cable.

none of this is terribly surprising considering how incompetent virtually the entire democratic party has acted if not been (i was about to say over the past couple of years but i'll just strikethrough myself here...)

the republican party has to be admired for generally being utterly fearless politically (if the opposite of fearless w/r/t "sky is falling" claptrap)

tonight is a vote against whomever's in power. It's going to keep happening every two years as long as the economy is shitty.

hi Al! and Daria! and everyone!

It's going to keep happening every two years as long as the economy is shitty.

I'm not sure about that - odds are that Dem losses now = Obama re-election in '12

but yeah I agree with yr first statement, that's obviously a no-brainer

debating whether i should have a drink or not. but it's like, everyone knows it's going to be bad. i'm sort of eh about the whole thing.

sup Don

I predict my entire city is going to smell like skunk-weed tomorrow morning

people are not bonering up for conservatism today any more than they bonered up for liberalism two years ago. Independents just keep voting against incumbents. And if unemployment is this close to 10% in 2012, Obama will be booted. He's simply not that good of a pol and he never has been.

nights like this make me long for gabbneb

hey don!

tbqf it's not like the last two years have been some magical strawberry fields dream that some nasty villains are going to pop the bubble on so i'm just like w/e

nights like this make me long for gabbneb

wait what?

no matter how bad it gets let's not start longing for nebster

And if unemployment is this close to 10% in 2012, Obama will be booted. He's simply not that good of a pol and he never has been.

I think you are seriously overestimating the Republican candidate field here, sorry

but I also don't think the 10% unemployment will last quite that long.

(I could be wrong about that)

i can't figure out how a candidate who could actually beat obama makes it through the GOP primaries.

i think you may be wrong there, shakey.

still: i hold that 10% unemployment or no, there won't be a President Palin -- or a Palin-esque President.

People, concentrate.

ummm you are right. I forgot who every Rep prez candidate was since Reagan. Fucking dismal.

If we are anywhere near 8% unemployment in two years, it will be nothing short of amazing (go look at the numbers and see how many jobs would have to be added every month to get 2% more employment. It's scary.)

I long for gabbneb just to tease him.

i'd LIKE for this election to be a referendum on gabbnebism -- i.e., a rejection of his strident and smug advocacy of a party devoted to Rockefeller Republicanism -- but i think that don's assessment is the correct one.

Why I Hate Ohio -- current results from one of our judge races:

Michael Astrab (R) 78,778
Bridget McCafferty (D) 57,707

The Democrat, Bridget McCafferty, is currently under Federal indictment on corruption and bribery charges as part of a years-long operation which has also resulted in one of the county commissioners and other public officials being indicted. But she's got 57,000 votes.

she's also one of 30 judges with an Irish surname running in c.county

LOL true. cf Eileen Gallagher and Eileen T. Gallagher. Separate races, separate women!

msnbc has decided the theme of the night is 'gop purges moderates'

I'm on my third glass of wine and will switch to shoe polish if necessary.

you need to apply for positions @ duke & unc & nc state if necessary

my cabinet is always full

I haven't wanted to touch the hard stuff yet.

dave weigel's coverage of this campaign season is my other favorite thing

BREAKING: You lose U.S. Senate race in Delaware.

Rubio wins in Florida -- no surprise. He won't be in the Senate long.

christine o'd to 'dancing with the stars' imo

I haven't wanted to touch the hard stuff yet.

my cabinet has a 16-bottle wine rack in it

just lettin' you know mr. FL

You could always come here again. We offer suntans and a terrific School of Music at FIU.

idk how msnbc fits that many egos in the room

Just hoping that when Durham County comes in, it'll put Price over the edge (it's looking very tight at the moment!)

Rubio wins in Florida -- no surprise. He won't be in the Senate long.

why do you say that?

you think, like i do, that he's going to be on all the GOP shortlists for VP in 2012 -- or even a possible nominee v. obama?

Yes.

You said so yourself earlier today.

Christie/Rubio 2012

yep yep