The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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Gallatin county (which has Bozeman) and Cascade county (which has Great Falls) have barely reported yet... so these guys might make the difference.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, CNN reports Schmidt-Wulsin at 113,736 vs 111,332.

Unfortunately, John Laesch lost to Denny "No Longer Speaker of Jack Shit" Hastert by 39K, which ain't actually too bad for a newbie union carpenter in a conservative suburb.

Shimkus won, too, so maybe the damage from Foley was minimized.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

oh Christ, i just remembered that we're gunna have to live thru another 2 months worth of dumbass pundit and MSM types trying to cobble together some half-assed narratives to explain the results

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

and give it up for the dem House member from MI-13, who ran un-opposed: Cheeks Kilpatrick.

Really.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Tester will win.

we're taking the senate!

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

All right, need to get some sleep. See everyone in the morning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link

damn, Tony Trupiano lost his House race in suburban detroit. He gave up his radio show to run. Skinner did, too.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Shimkus won, too, so maybe the damage from Foley was minimized.

the only races it really impacted, it seems, were Foley's district and KS-2

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

No Sleep til Pombo

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'LL KEEP U COMPANY WITH DRUNKEN TYPOES

― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link

We can do our own. Webb's now ahead by 11,000, which Toobin, who wrote a book about recounts, says no way will anything like that be overturnable or makeruppable, although, if lead is less than 1% of total votes reported (which is true in this case, so far), Allen can request recount. One thing may make a significant difference, theoreticaly, is provisional ballots, which will be examined tomorrow (or today, Wed, I mean). These are ballots set aside, like "Oh, you always voted here, Cousin Bob? Well, maybe you *are* 'really really registered', we'll just check that out! But now it's time for beddy-bye."

― don (dow), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

WA-08.. the gap is closing now between Burner and Reichert such that Eastside King County precincts are coming in with Burner at 51% there, and 56% for Reichert in Pierce.. Eastside King Co. has more folks though, and less weather problems. No clue how this will turn out.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

looks like Sali's gonna pull through

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'know, the sky cleared up and the rain stopped this afternoon in portland. it was a beautiful evening at 4:30pm.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link

White House irked after GOP candidate snubs Bush

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) -- The White House did not hide its irritation Monday at Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist for ducking President Bush at a campaign rally in the Republican-friendly Panhandle.

looks like he chose well, too. dude won by 320K.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

raw ass MT results:

Jon Tester -- Stan Jones -- Conrad Burns -- Total Votes
County Totals -- 140883 -- 6856 -- 132183 -- 279922

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hey waitamin, that pro-stem-cell thing passed in MO, didn't it?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it did

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

that story was from allentown, illinois you idiots

i'm enjoying the dems victory, listening to lynyrd skynyrd

enjoy this:

http://www.post-gazette.com/images4/2006108rr_santorum_concedePJ_580.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be crying if they made me wear that dress on national TV.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link

also:

(pop 1,000,0000)

ilx's resident libertarian shows his math knowledge!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

that story was from allentown, illinois you idiots

what story?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm really more of a socialist, honest. A lot of those anti-gay amendments that passed, banned civil unions as well as marriage. More evidence that, if not for The Media telling it wrong about the victory in Iraq, the Roving wouldn't be experiencing technical difficulties at the moment.

― don (dow), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/States/Hawaii/Oahu/NorthShore/Surfing/ClassicMoves/NonchalantSurferOn15FootBanzaiPipelineWave.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

kaus:

Obvious Big Post-Election MSM Theme #!: Why can't more Republicans be flexible like Schwarzenegger. ... [Theme #2?--ed 'The Red state/Blue state divide is over!'] 9:35 P.M.

NBC's anchors Russert, Brokaw and Williams can't be Democratic or Republican, liberal or conservative--that wouldn't do!--but they can be relentless, tedious advocates of bipartisanship and moderation. Isn't that an ideological position too? ["Bipartisanshp" is a blazing arrow pointing at ...-ed "Comprehensive" immigration reform, I know.] 8:17 P.M.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hooray! (I've said my piece, now backing out of thread.)

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

POMBO SENT BACK TO THE RANCH

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ben, go to sleep. you have a "real job" to quote blount.

and the story was the bash the election machine with a ceramic cat from upthread. get one jaymc spreadsheet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf @ fursuit bumpers on msnbc

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.discovergrandcanyon.com/gallery/ralph%20sunrise.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.discovergrandcanyon.com/gallery/ralph%20sunrise.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

and the story was the bash the election machine with a ceramic cat from upthread. get one jaymc spreadsheet.

it was Allentown PA

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM LISTENING TO MRRRRR. WILSON BY JOHN CALE AND ENJOYINGNGGGGG THE VICTORY TOOOO!!!!! THANK YOU HSTENSIL FOR CLAIRIFIYING. BTW I ADMIRE YOU V .V. MUCH. T5HAT'S ALL FOR EVERYONE

― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

WA-8 tightening...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to bed here in London to avoid the whole thing sending me into sleep deprivation mania and even then they were encourgaging the Rsholes to kiss Virginia goodbye.

JUst left note on flatmate's door saying America has spoken and it said SOD OFF DUBYA.

Ah and the lovely, lovely schadenfreude of Katherine Harris losing and getting rained on. Hope this puts a lid on the bitch's ambitions.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa ... Arizona voted against banning same-sex marriages! And if all the other ballot initiatives have predictably consecrated antigay legislature, quite a few of them were way waaaaay closer calls than in '04, which nearly every state with such measures went lopsided on behalf of banning gay marriage by 3-1 margins.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, there but for the grace of God go Tennessee and S. Carolina...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

SDak also canned the horrible abortion bill they had on the cards and was scaring the crap out of me, because those people all come to my home state and we send our doctors to SDak to the one damn place in Sioux Falls that does terminations.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hope this puts a lid on the bitch's ambitions.

i'm sure it will for about five minutes. she'll be a lobbyist within a month, though.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Tester's lead in MT now just 2,800 with 90% reporting.

Great finish from Webb! I think he can expect to pick up the lion's share of absentee ballots that are left to count but, with 0.3% in it, I don't think Allen will concede for weeks.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The remaining MT booths don't look crash hot for Tester.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

How can that hair not win.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ed, that ad is briliant

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

didn't the bloke do well !

Bernie Sanders now in the Senate
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/localnews/ci_4622121

BURLINGTON - Hundreds of supporters chanted "Bernie! Bernie!" at a victory party that welcomed the maverick independent congressman who calls himself a "democratic socialist" into the U.S. Senate.

"The people of Vermont have told America they are sick and tired of right wing extremism!" Sanders told the crowd, which punched red balloons into the air. "This election tonight may be the end of a campaign, but it is the beginning of a grassroots movement across America!"

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Vermont is now a Red State.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

So funny. So very, very funny:

http://www.freerepublic.com

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Though also quite scary. In Freeper world, it's un-American to criticise the President and treason to vote against his party. Unless, of course, the Prez happens to be a Democrat, in which case HE MUST BE IMPEACHED.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

xp A Girl, 4, Who Is So Sad She May Need Anti-Depressants is no laughing matter.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Call a lawyer

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It will be a 25 foot wave, but I'm thinking it will be a pickup along the lines of 30 seats for Dems in the House. A wave that big will probably be big enough to add enough collateral damage in the Senate, and here's what I think: Dems will win MD, MO, NJ, OH, PA, RI, and VA.

-- don weiner (dandydonweine...), November 6th, 2006.

betting balls, etc.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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