The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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Heh. i wonder if Newshour is gunna have on David Brooks tonight to opine about it all.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf is happening in MT, anyone know?

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

these ABC Now yo-yos are so pitifully inconsequential they have not in the last 30 minutes even merited a chyron!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

KY-03 GOP 50-49 with 50% reporting

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

lugar is like the only republican i can stand. because of his goofy ass smile.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sam Donaldson excepted" will be my mantra for the evening.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

also, wasn't lugar unopposed? CNN UR DUM

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link

re: Montana -- It's just one poll and i have no clue what the source is, but from myDD(?):

MT: 53-46 Dem

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Lugar opposed only by a libertarian, they called that one first.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

can't remember if we've posted this yet, but FBI has opened an investigation into robocalling in Virginia

Wish there was a better name for it, tho. "wardialing"? "voicemail droids gone amuck"?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Fox News reporting massive GOP turnout in Virginia and Montana - in Virginia exceeding 2004 levels...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"robocalling" sounds like "drunk dialing" (the two are similar, admittedly)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Fox or CNN going forward, Sky is arse and BBC doesn't start covering till 3am?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

CNN calling Ohio governor for Strickland-Dem

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

goddammit, i hate it when they call races before the fucking polls even close.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

they are hardly mentioning polls being kept open in cleveland, fox mention it every other breath.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha, whoa, "Not a surprise, because Ohio is a cesspool this year." (CNN)

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

CNN calls WV for Byrd (D). Just 22 more...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i need a little color-in-map like we had in '04. it's fun to keep score for yourself!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

um CNN Pipeline wants me to pay??

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

haha yeah like NCAA basketball brackets, only legislative

xpost

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No freesat/freeview, hand?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

no TV, Ed

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the internet really falls down with truly LIVE events (excluding those that follow preset patterns like sports)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck me, sky news coverage is bad:

Anchor: 'Isn't it refreshing to see an independent coming through from that two party state?'
Pundit: 'That's Connecticut and he isn't really an independent, that's joe Liberman'

Radio 4 should be providing coverage shortly and fox news is offering the chance to watch their radio coverage online.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

what do they show you, live footage of a radio?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I had no idea Robert Byrd was up for re-election. What kind of opposition could his candidacy muster?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

tracer, if you're desperate for tv, go download tvuplayer. you get abc, nbc, cbs, fox, the lot. got me through the world series.

― ^@^ (map), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't say I have bothered to find out. On the TV fox they have some people punditing on the whingers who complain about robo-calling and disenfranchisement and even deign to retain lawyers before any problems arise.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Tracer, NPR live coverage here starting at the top of the hour.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

3.2pt lead for Webb (D) in the CNN exit polls for VA senate (based on the gender split scores), but we all remember how those numbers failed to account for the heavily pro-GOP third sex in '04.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

^@^, if it's still PC-only it's no go for me, too

i "hate to say it" but i think NPR would want to make me claw my eyes out even more than the ABC News D-team

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

CNN gives Brown (D) a 16pt lead in OH, but they're not calling it yet (not surprising - it would be the first displaced incumbent).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ , best for hand

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

starting to listen to the NPR coverage now...

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

3.2pt lead for Webb (D) in the CNN exit polls for VA senate

However, in the real numbers, Allen is 10pts ahead in the first few reporting precincts (could be very Red precincts, I dunno).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Allen is now behind.

Who is the skeleton in the glasses on CNN?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

That would be James Carville.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Ed's right - it's Webb by 356k-355k votes from 33% of precincts. I was going to stay up for the call on VA and then go to bed figuring that would probably decide the senate (or at least rule out Dem control if Allen was re-elected), but it's heading for a recount at the mo' and might be the very last significant result instead of one of the first.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

BUH-BYE, MAN-ON-DAWG!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Now Allen by 4,000 or so. I'm not going to F5 that all night...

IN-08 goes to Ellsworth by a huge margin and that's the first gain for the Dems - 14 more required for control.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Allen by 79 votes, 40% of precincts reporting!

Ok, I really will stop now.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually felt a little uncomfortable when Begala called Rush Limbaugh a "drug addled gasbag."

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Another Rep incumbent with a 16pt deficit in a CNN exit poll - Santorum in PA. Apparently one or two networks have now stuck their necks out and called both OH and PA for the Dems.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

BBC saying CBS have called Ohio sen for sherrod brown and polls still open in Cuyahoga county.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

NJ called for Menendez

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

VA - the northern VA heavily Dem counties come in last. so it might be a while!

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

CNN called New Jersey for Menendez over Kean. (xp)

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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