The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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mn gov is giving me conniptions

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

U.S. House - District 8 - 204 of 205 Precincts Reporting
Name Party Votes Pct
Hayes, Robin (i) GOP 59,489 50.70
Kissell, Larry Dem 57,853 49.30

from charlotte.com.

i'll have to wait a few more years for my next congressman. sigh. god damn it.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

KARL ROVE BABY. HE'Z GOTSDA MAGIC AS WE'VE SEEN WITH DA HOUSE, HOOCHA!

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

"OH WE'LL JUST LOSE TWELVE SEATS BUT WE'LL STILL HAVE IT"

ROVE DA MAN NOW DOG!

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Schumer seems very confident about Missouri and Montana...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Webb ahead on CNN.com now too

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda want to see Rove doing his usual grinning and laughing thing tomorrow, just to cause everyone to flip a bit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm Joe Lieberman and I approve of this election."

I heard that while taking a dump, and I wanted to fling feces @ my TV after he said that. Go lick a pork sausage, Joe.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally cool with a 50/50 senate minus Senator Shitmixture and an executive that's hated to the tune of sixty-six percent. Nancy and the Zombies should provide some interesting song and dance from the cabinet - the promise of no impeachment proceedings might very well come with a long list of ancillary demands *fingers in pretzel shapes* and I imagine a lot of those R's in the upper house might actually want to keep their positions after Cheney goes down in a medley of flames and impervious circulatory plumbing.

Is it too early to say FUK U CREATIONIZTS

I think NOT

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. At least the "official" language of Arizona is English now. [I'm re-reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities right now, and this concept is more than a little surreal.]

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

George Allen ahead by 1757, according to Board Of Elections, sez NPR (and yeah correspondant guaranteeing recount, also write-in votes could tip it: Kermit The Frog cited as one potential decider)

― don (dow), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

it's not easy being the decider

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

ban same-sex marriage *losing* in AZ. not that it makes a practical difference: already statutorily illegal. but how many times has a ban lost?

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Here we go with the mandatory "victory for the American people" speeches

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus that VA thing is really some photo-finish stuff

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

Charlotte.com

U.S. House - District 8 - 205 of 205 Precincts Reporting
Name Party Votes Pct
Hayes, Robin (i) GOP 60,500 50.19
Kissell, Larry Dem 60,032 49.81

oh, there better be a motherfucking recount. less than 500 votes off!@#@!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

I realize NC-08 isn't nearly as exciting as VA-Sen, but damn, talk about a photo finish! you should be close enough to care, Tallis.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

good news: abortion ban loses in SD.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! A bright spot indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

WA-8

D-Burner: 50.2312%
R-Reichert (i): 49.7688%

That's just 200 votes. There are more people on my floor of the building I work at in Redmond than that.

I have no clue which part of the eastside has reported yet. Very interesting. A Burner win would be yet another cherry on top, etc.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Fox is giving Webb the edge in VA. Also Kristol is saying that the Republicans are fearing that the city vote in Missouri will turn that vote to McCaskell.

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record), the Democrats' vice presidential candidate in 2000 but running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, kept his seat from Connecticut.

heh, kind of had to read that last part a couple of times to make sure I got it right.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Boyda wins in KS-2!
Hall about to pull off NY-19!
Hafen right there with Porter in NV-3!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway -- first female Speaker of the House ever! Cool!

Jim Ryun going down makes me happy because of that hilarious story about Cheney's little pageant with him in front of true believers a few weeks ago. I hope everyone there is crying pukingly right now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

hall is the "still the one" 70s soft-rocker dude, right?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

state politics: corrupt Democratic N.C. member of state congress, Jim Black, wins by seven points

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and we have a socialist in the Senate now too. I'm all for that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, while (a) i woulda liked to have seen stender beat ferguson in NJ-07 (my parents' district, and the current district of my old hometown); (b) i woulda LOVED to have seen lieberman eat shit and lose (and thereby spare everyone the grief that i believe from the bottom of my heart that he is going to unleash [though i would love to be proven wrong on this account]); and (c) i woulda LOVED to have had VA and MO definitely settled before i go to bed (as in like right now); on the whole i am rather pleased with tonight's results.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, let's get to the amusing quotes now. here's little green footballs celebrating:

The first paragraph of Reuters’ report on the win of former Nation of Islam spokesman Keith Ellison in Minnesota says it all: Minnesota sends first Muslim to Congress.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Voters elected a black Democrat as the first Muslim in Congress on Tuesday after a race in which he advocated quick U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and made little mention of his faith.

They’ll be celebrating in Gaza tomorrow.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

looks like Schmidt hangs on in OH-2

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kagen picks up WI-8

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, let's get to the amusing quotes now.

I already have some plans for that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

God please let Joe Courtney beat the snot (relatively speaking) out of Rob "HOMELAND SECURITY" Simmons. (According to CNN - 95% of the precincts reporting, Courtney w/ a 400 vote lead!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

good news: abortion ban loses in SD.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Questions to Montanans re: Ned...

If Burns wins, and he gets indicted via the whole Abramoff thing, does Burns reappoint someone, or is there a special election?

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

Michelle Bachmann's crazy ass runs away with MN-06. Enh.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

that's still the one, Tad, and he's our 25th pickup of the night so far

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing amusing about that LGF bullshit! Oh my God, that comments section feels like reading N4tional Fr0nt propoganda.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

OH-1 falls away

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Meantime:

The Post-2006 election schadenfreude thread

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

NPR says script flipped: now it's Webb 'head (Marvel Comics reference) by 1700, 18 precincts left to report!

― don (dow), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa - McCaskill pulled ahead of Talent! (74% in)

CNN has Webb up by 2300.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

mn gov goddammit. i want pawlenty's political career to be ovaaaaaah

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

Pombo's losin OH YEEEAASSSS

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Grant ahead in ID-1 with 20% in

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Duckworth conceded

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

Fuxor. I really wanted her in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

50% in for WA-8.. Burner trailing barely...

Darcy Burner/Democrat 30,148 48.7863%
Dave Reichert/Republican (i) 31,648 51.2137%

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

mn gov goddammit. i want pawlenty's political career to be ovaaaaaah
-- geoff

Also, Rep. Bachman, YOU ARE A MOUTHBREATHER.

We suck.

― John Justen will insert a ship in your cat for no additional fee (johnjusten), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

rofl from reichert's page

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― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

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