9:01pm: Now that MN and CO are closed, let’s move this party over here.
8:55pm: 64% in, and Deal leads by 212,126 to 201,445.
8:50pm: Fulton County fans should know that they have their own results website, featuring a mind-bogglingly annoying auto-scroll feature. Enjoy!
8:47pm: So we’re up to 61% reporting in GA, and Deal leads Handel by 194,074 to 185,254.
8:44pm: Back in Connecticut, Malloy leads Lamont by 57-43 with about 10% in. Foley is up on Fedele by 46-45. Janet Peckinpaugh leads Daria Novak by 43-37 in the 2nd, and Caligiuri leads Greenberg by only 35-33 in the 5th.
8:37pm: 54% reporting in GA, and Deal’s lead has closed to 168,784-162,623.
8:26pm: We’re now at 43% reporting in Georgia, and Deal now leads Handel by 123,489 votes to 114,045. Deal’s keeping his 4% lead steady.
8:21pm: Over in the Nutmeg state, Foley leads Fedele by 46-34 with 2% of town precincts reporting. Malloy is up by 56-44 over Lamont, and McMahon has a 48-27-25 lead over Simmons and Schiff. In the 5th CD, Sam Caligiuri has a 36-32-32 lead over businessman Mark Greenberg and Afganistan vet Justin Bernier.
8:18pm: We’re up to 34% reporting in GA, and Nathaniel Deal is holding onto a 83,957-77,554 lead.
8:10pm: Deal is now leading by a full 4%, 72,107 to 66,595, with 31% reporting. Handel’s even losing Gwinnett County narrowly to Deal, which she won by a large spread back in July.
8:09pm: If you’d like to compare tonight’s results to the first round of voting, check out this handy table of county results.
8:05pm: Again, this seems to be a rare night where the Associated Press (and, therefore, the Politico) are getting lapped by the Georgia SoS. With 28% in, Deal now leads by 56,437-53,131 (3%).
8:03pm: So back to GA: Deal now sports a 48,814-46,354 lead over Handel with 26% in.
8:02pm: Polls have now closed in Connecticut.
7:57pm: Look out! Deal just took a 0.6% lead, according to the SoS. 24% of precincts are now reporting.
7:53pm: The crew over at SSP Labs is still setting up the mainframe, but we should get some projections to you once the boys in the long white coats are good and ready.
7:52pm: Deal’s now pulled even (according to the SoS office), trailing Handel by just over 40 votes, 24,739-24,693. 18% reporting.
7:48pm: In the House races, Rob Woodall leads Jody Hice by 10% in GA-07, incumbent Tom Graves leads Screamin’ Lee Hawkins by 14% in GA-09, and Ray McKinney leads Carl Smith 10% in GA-12. Oh, and Deborah Honeycutt is getting thrashed by Mike Crane in the 13th.
7:46pm: Handel now leads by just under 1000 votes (2.6%) with 15% of precincts reporting.
7:35pm: It’s now 9,630 Handel, 8,899 Deal (a 4% lead) with 9% of precincts reporting, according to the SoS. Only 1% of e-day votes have been counted so far, though.
7:20pm: We’re up to 3% reporting (according to the SoS office), and Handel’s lead over Deal is now 2,240-2,052 (that’s 52%-48%).
7:13pm: The GA SoS has our first taste of results for the night, with Handel leading Deal by a mere 28 votes.
Polls have now closed in Georgia, and SSP Headline News will be using this thread to follow the returns. Connecticut closes at 8pm Eastern and Minnesota and Colorado close at 9pm Eastern. We’ll touch base with those states later.
RESULTS:
Colorado: Associated Press | Politico
Connecticut: Associated Press | Politico
Georgia: Georgia SoS | Associated Press | Politico
Minnesota: MN SoS | Associated Press | Politico
with 0% of Precincts reporting. This race looks like it’ll go down to the wire. Haha.
oh well………
link might be http://www.politico.com/2010/m…
but it really doesn’t matter.
providing me with my daily dose of map. love it. and can’t wait for the general election when the damn maps will be color-coded.
278 – 247
She won the county in round one 1,167 – 864 out of a total of 3,931
After the polls close in a couple hours vote totals may be a little slower to come in in Minnesota than in the past. After the Franken/Coleman affair they have changed the way absentee ballots are handled, this could slow things down especially in larger counties.
Handel leads 51-49 but it’s only a two vote difference.
Here is the link for the MN SoS election results. It wasn’t in the place where they put all the past election results.
http://electionresults.sos.sta…
starts coming in
McKinney is winning 3-1.
Central Georgia. Handel winning there easily. Also winning Newton County’s early votes handily. I’m almost not sure if, after hearing all I’ve heard about her the past few days, Handel isn’t the best GOPer for Barnes to face.
starting off strong in the early votes, and then her margin slides as more Election day votes come in. I wonder why she’s stronger among the early voters?
but they are saying .2% of precincts reporting.
Sure, he’s undoubtedly a down-the-line conservative, but at least we wouldn’t have another Michele Bachmann in the House.
in Glasscock, while he’s only barely squeaking out a 51% margin in Whitfield, with 40% of the vote in. That’s part of his base. If he doesn’t do better than that he’s toast. Plus the early voting numbers almost everywhere are terrible for him.
(Glascock in east-central GA)
Handel wins 70-30. she picked up 29 votes vis-a-vis her July performance, Deal picked up 27. Little change. Bad sign for Deal, he needs change.
% precincts in is an error.
Georgia, but the problem remains that his showing in north Georgia is spotty at best.
However he is still narrowly winning Gwennett with 7.7 percent of precincts reporting. That could keep him afloat despite weaker than expected showings elsewhere.
One thing I’m noticing is that Handel is doing absurdly strong in some heavily black areas. Do you think Democrats are voting for Handel now because they think she’ll be the easiest to beat?
It’s the same dynamic is the Republican Gubernatorial Runoff: very conservative Republican from non-Metro North Georgia (Preston Smith) versus a Metro Republican who’s had to verify his conservative credentials (Sam Olens). Olens winning might be problematic as he’s the Commission Chair of Cobb County, Barnes’ home county and a county that Barnes will have to do well in.
He’s widled Handel’s margin down to 3%, election day voters tend to be more favorable to him than early votes.
I assume that Handel will make gains towards the end when the Atlanta area counties start coming in, so I wouldn’t be too surprised to see Deal take the lead narrowly but lose in the end.
more counties (Pulaski, Taliaferro) fully reported for Deal
in, and Deal is still narrowly ahead there. Handel seems to be doing best in the more moderate areas of the state, which makes me a little afraid of Barnes’s chances if she is the GOP candidate, even though she is running a really right wing campaign.
Can the Johnson endorsement help Deal pull close in Fulton?
24,082 51% Handel
23,138 49% Deal
5.6% precincts reporting
Pulaski and Cander are now fully reporting. Deal is winning Pulaski County 54.6%-45.4% with 253 votes to 210. Deal is also winning Bulloch County 323 to 300 votes with 51.4% of the vote. Deal seems to be pulling narrow leads out of these counties and if he can keep them, he will win.
Another note: counties in Deal’s district that have reported early votes are giving Deal small margins but counties like White County in Deal’s district that have reported are breaking strongly for him.
The vote total is getting narrower
Handel
31,153 50.5%
Deal
30,540 49.5%
She seems to be doing well in the Atlanta area but is not doing too well in southern Georgia. While she should make up ground when the Atlanta area reports, she should lose it as votes from election day report which should favor Deal.
That’s really bad news for her, as she really needs to do well in the Atlanta area to win.
few strong rural counties Handel is getting pwned by turnout. Look at Clay County where Deal only lost 7 votes but Handel lost 26.
Politico is showing the county maps for Connecticut, when we all know the counties in CT are useless. At least the AP is showing the town totals, though.
up 56-44 over Lamont
first few precincts in
Turnout does not seem too good for Handel in DeKalb County. The GA SoS said that the vote total was 467 Handel 267 Deal with 33% in. I know DeKalb is an extremely Democratic county buth the turnout still seems low. Is that a leading indicator for Fulton which casts 2 times as many Republican votes in 2008 than DeKalb?
In 2008, Fulton cast 7% of McCain’s vote in Georgia. If the turnout there is not higher today and Deal has a large margin out of the rural areas, Handel will be in trouble.
in the Richmond area but she did so in July too. it’s looking like Fulton could be the last best hope of Karen Handel.
I’m not really sure who to root for in terms of who would be better to face in the general. Is there some general consensus that I haven’t noticed? Thanks!
and the race tightens back to 2 percentage points, 51-49, as Handel pulls a ridiculously large margin off in the first batch of votes there. Looks like 70-30.
Are 37% in compared to 34% with election day voting. The vote count here should favor Handel but it does not seem to be.
Fulton County is coming now!
It brought a 4 point Deal lead down to 2.4. Vote totals are 1,629 D 4,196 H. 3% in
Simmons is winning the first votes counted (absentees I guess?) in small towns that are part of CT-02. I don’t think there’s enough Republicans in CT-02 to make the senate race interesting at all though
Deal
92,834
Handel
88,625
Totals
51.2% 48.8%
36% reporting
Skimming over things, county-by-county, it looks to me like there’s a decent chance Peter Schiff actually defeats Rob Simmons for second place.
Is reporting too, I have decided that a pretty map for two states that I can navigate between easily is more important than results that Politico will show five minutes later.
I am with Politico now.
I’ll preach it all night, the longer Deal leads by 3-5% the bigger the vote totals will be to overcome.
The % may have gone down, but its still 6,200 votes.
of his four campaigns, this is the longest Hawkins has gone without getting the AP to call his loss. Of course he’s still getting his ass whooped and probably going to lose.
on Handel with almost 50% in. The hole is quickly getting too deep, though I reckon she can catch up with the rest of Fulton county. She can’t keep losing elsewhere though.
another bit comes in and she gains another 4,000 votes. 51-49 again statewide. She’s getting and absurdly large, almost 75-25 margin out of populous Fulton.
11,000 votes and so-called 8% reporting. That equates to about 130,000 votes total,a nd the July primary Fulton only had 42,000.
Turnout of around the July number and Deal wins this easily. Better than July and it starts to tighten. I still don’t see how Handel can win Fulton by the 15,000 or so it appears she will need. Unless she really spiked turnout in Fulton.
Handel will get a boost when Fulton comes in, but I don’t think it will be enough.
Handel is now up 4,000 votes there, as opposed to beating Deal by 12,000+ in July. I was hoping Deal could keep Cobb even, like Gwinnett had been.
Oh well, I’m being too optimistic.
Over in State House District 75, Shawn James is getting annihilated. This guy ran for this seat in last year’s special election as a Republican, filed for the general this year as a Republican, has been endorsed by the NRA and Georgia Right to Life (IIRC). Now, he’s calling himself a conservative Democrat.
Greenburg’s money, and looked too much at grassroots and establishment backing. It’s increasingly apparent that money is that main thing that matters in 95% of all political races. Right now Chris Murphy has to be smiling, with a 3 way clusterf*** in the GOP primary, with all three of the candidates around 33% of the vote each.
By 2.6 points and 11,000 votes. Fulton County is 14% in with a 7,000 vote lead for Handel. Many of the rural counties though have already reported. DeKalb and Fulton Counties are taking a long time to report. This race could turn around for Handel at the last minute.
for a new thread yet?