9:33 PM ET (David): AP calls it for Latta.
9:03 PM ET: About a third of precinct are now reporting and Latta is maintaining a 55%-45% lead.
8:42 PM ET: 11% of precincts are now reporting in Ohio and Latta has a 56%-44% lead over Weirauch. As a side note, it appears that the SOS' RSS feed is updating a bit quicker than the main site as it was displaying these results a few minutes earlier.
8:30 PM ET: I think we can officially put a nail in Forgit. With 93% of precincts reporting, he's still at 35%.
8:21 PM ET: With 2% reporting in Ohio, Latta is up 53-46.
8:07 PM ET: 75% of precincts are reporting in VA-01 and Forgit is still holding steady at 35%.
7:51 PM ET: Results are starting to trickle in for OH-05. With what appears to be a single precinct reporting, Latta is up 75-69.
7:41 PM ET: With just over half of the precincts reporting, Forgit's still sitting at 34%. Even Kerry was able to garner 39% in this district.
7:30 PM ET: Polls just closed in Ohio; we'll know shortly whether Weirauch was able to seal the deal.
7:27 PM ET: With about a quarter of the votes in, Forgit is still down by a 2-1 margin. Looks like it won't be a long night in Virginia.
7:17 PM ET: Early returns (10% reporting) show Republican Rob Wittman up 2722-1330 over Democrat Phil Forgit.
Polls should be closing shortly as voters in Ohio and Virginia choose replacements for Republican Reps. Paul Gillmor (OH-05) and Jo Ann Davis (VA-01). Unfortunately, James is still in transit and unable to join us tonight, but I'll try my best to fill his liveblogging shoes.
Up above, I've posted links to sites that should update with results throughout the night. But if they don't come through for us, I'll update accordingly. If you happen to find a better results page, let me know in the comments.
It'll probably be a while before any votes actually get counted, so treat this as your final chance to lock in predictions.
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the votes are coming from in VA-01, but I don’t think it matters. 15% reporting, and it is 2-1 in favor of Wittman. I don’t think Forgit can overcome the deficit. I think the DCCC should have made an investment here, but what do I know.
So much for the Virginia race. I guess we never really had a chance there unless there was some kind of scandal, considering Webb and Kaine lost the district. It is good to make investment in the district though, so we can pull in voters in the presidential race and future state races.
Looks like Forgit is pulling it in a bit closer. He should finish around the same as past performances in the district.
In my opinion otherwise it’s pretty bad news.
first numbers from Ohio. Latta is leading by like 6 votes.
Auto-refresh every five minutes with a countdown clock? That’s the shizzle right there.
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One thing we really can’t worry about here is how Forgit actually does. I have seen people starting to say that its bad news if Forgit doesn’t get a higher total than Webb did. That is simply not true. Webb got his total during an actual election. This is a special election and not one the Dems were supposed to win. Forgit’s total % here is nearly useless when it comes to determining how we will do next Novemeber in this district.
It doesn’t look like there are many voters there though, but definitely not a good sign.
Weirauch is outperforming 2006 performance in Seneca.
46% this time vs. 40% in 2004.
That could get us a victory if numbers stick like this tonight.
Why the hell do we keep performing so horribly in these special elections?
One of the more Democratic precincts, Forgit outperformed Kerry 53.25 % to 52 %. Webb got 57.6%
Not only is he doing worse than Webb, but he’s substantially under-performing even in comparison to Kerry. That’s pretty amazing.
Weinrach is running ahead in both counties posted vs last time:
Ashland
Candidate / Issue % Of Votes Votes
Latta, Robert (R) 51.72% 75
Weirauch, Robin (D) 47.59% 69
06:Ashland 1,895 (45%) 2,350 (55%)
Seneca
Candidate / Issue % Of Votes Votes
Green, John (WI) 0.50% 15
Latta, Robert (R) 53.34% 1,589
Weirauch, Robin (D) 46.16% 1,375
06:Seneca 8,054 (40%) 11,892 (60%)
Can anyone see a way to see results by county other than # votes and % counted? How else can we see how it’s going compared to 2006?
in Crawford County. she got 42% against Gillmor, and 40% today. Latta improved 1 point over Gillmor
popped in 100% at once. Robin went up from 42% in 2006 to 46.7%. Gain of 4.7%, but she needs to gain 6.9% overall.
but something after 40 minutes would be nice.
lose it this bad.
Looks like Latta is going to win this with Weirauch getting under 48%. The turnout in Ashland (12.5%) was particularly disappointing, given that this should have been a staunch Weirauch stronghold.
I think it’s over.
It’s the second most Democratic county in the district — however, absentee votes tend to lean Republican.
With 100% of the precincts reporting, Weirauch has sunk back down to 42.95% while Latta is at 56.87%, with the negligible remainder going to Green.