The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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.

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

it was Allentown PA

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.

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

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.

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!"

http://www.freerepublic.com

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

betting balls, etc.

She is not the person in this photo I want to see crying.

Here's hoping this photo doesn't follow her throughout her life like a bad penny, and that instead she grows happy in a...I dunno...Christian lesbian electronic music collective or something. And that she always has that doll, and that doll's outfit always matches her outfit (or vice versa), that would so rock.

Jennifer Gratz, the U-M applicant in 1995 who was wait-listed and later spurred the case heard by the Supreme Court, served as the executive director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, sponsor of the proposal.

"I am excited and hopeful that Michigan will finally be a place of equal opportunity for all," Gratz said Tuesday. "The people of Michigan are the ones who have won today. They stood up to big business, big labor, to the entire establishment and said, 'We want to be treated equally.'"

Let's all sing "We Shall Overcome"

there are criticisms of AA but that's not one (mine: that most AA programs reward the economic and cultural elite of the groups they are trying to help)

> Past Bush's veto?

In that scenario, the next two years amount to a setup for 2008 - if Bush consistently vetoes every progressive piece of legislation to come down the pipeline, the Dems just get an even bigger boost than they had going into this election, with a "Do-Nothing President" to wave around. Bush isn't going to let that happen, so expect the "Uniter, not a divider" stuff to come out of mothballs for some unlikely compromise legislation. See also: 1996 welfare bill, etc.

with a difference of 1500 votes, um, yeah dude.

The answer's no.

poor kids.

Bill Bennett on CNN: "You will see a draft movement for Rick Santorum to run for president of the United States."

Is this why Bill left his seat early? To start campaigning?