139 thoughts on “Election Night Liveblog Thread”

  1. No disrespect to anyone here, but I love being in a festive, live party atmosphere for election night, so that’s where I’m heading.

    Best of luck to all good Democrats everywhere!!!!

  2. Lunsford is outperforming Obama by almost 10%.  He’s going to need to hold that and Obama’s going to have to push up to 40% with the liberal districts start reporting.  

  3. No not the Bolshevik Revolution.

    That was the day McCain knew for sure he had lost.

    Both candidates were in Albuqueque that day.

    Almost 1000 attended McCain’s rally.

    Obama drew at least 35-40k.

  4. We’re enjoying watching your liveblog here in the UK. Would you mind putting (R) or (D) after the names of the candidates you refer to above? I haven’t been following the Senate race but I’d like to get an idea of the general trend.

    Cheers

  5. Boswell is doing significantly better than the 2006 Dem result in Marion and slightly better in Meade county. It’s going to be close.

  6. CNN exit polls put us up in NC-Gov, NC-Sen, has GA-Sen going to a runoff (very close) with Martin losing thanks to terrible performance among men.

  7. Garcia and Diaz-Balart in a tie in FL-25 with over 100,000 votes in. Kosmas is cruising, Grayson also looking great for victory. Raul Martinez is far behind. I’m guessing those are all early votes, however. It will come down to election day turnout.

    http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20

  8. McConnell is underperforming in Eastern KY…He’s in deep trouble.  Goode is not performing strong with his base and Keller is underperforming in Lake County.  Keller and Goode are now headed for the door.

  9. It’s Goode with 55 and Perriello with 45. Definitely Perriello can pull off an upset. He’s still got good areas to report.

  10. All of the vote in so far is from Feeney’s home county Orange.  Once my county Volusia starts rolling in Kosmas’s numbers will get even better.

    Keller (FL-08) also looks likely to lose by a big margin, maybe double-digits.

  11. In everything from congressional races to the Presidential race Orange County is coming through in a big way for Democrats.  Obama is winning by a much bigger margin than Kerry did in 2004.

  12. It’s semi-official.  Keller underperformed in Lake County and with 89% precincts reporting he’s only carrying 56% of the vote.  Marion and Osceola have not reported yet Marion should be split even (at least) and Osceola favors Grayson.  With 59% in Orange Co. Keller is getting hammered.

  13. Goode is underperforming in his base.  Danville and Martinsville are favoring Perriello and Charlottesville has yet to report.  Another GOP “closet case” heading out the door.

  14. If FOX called KY for McConnell then they are way ahead of themselves.  Less than half of Jefferson Co. has reported, McConnell is losing Eastern Kentucky and if he doesn’t win strong in the Cincinnati suburbs then he may truly be gone.

  15. Either Florida has really spooked the media, or things are turning out much better than expected.

  16. PA-10

    CARNEY, CHRISTOPHER P. (DEM)

    351 70.1%

    HACKETT, CHRIS (REP)

    150 29.9%

    PA-11

    KANJORSKI, PAUL E. (DEM)

    2,494 59.9%

    BARLETTA, LOU (REP)

    1,669 40.1%

  17. Shays is now even with Himes in Norwalk and Stamford.  It looks like Shays will pull it off.  Most of Bridgeport has already reported and the remaining areas will favor Shays.

  18. Robinson is ahead of Tiberi.  He’s performing strong in Franklin County which is what he needed to do.  Surprise upset possible here.

  19. Right now, Fleming and Obama are performing better than Musgrove with 1% in.

    These are most likely considerably African-American precincts, and I don’t think there’s any chance Musgrove can win now, if he’s underperforming so much among African-Americans.

  20. Marion has still to report a few precincts and Monroe has yet to report much.  Lake has reported very little and Porter and LaPorte are reporting less than 50%.  Obama has a chance, yet McCain may win by a very narrow margin.

  21. First areas reporting are favorable to Nutcraker Harris.  Looks like the Eastern Shore will give this to Kratovil.  Harris and his Club for Growth aren’t winning in the end.

  22. VA-02: Glenn C. Nye III 36,415 53.71% Precincts Reporting:

       59 of 161 (36.64%)

    Voter Turnout:

       67,793 of 388,528 active voters (17.44%)

       67,793 of 401,372 total voters (16.89%) Votes by County/City

    Thelma D. Drake 31,241 46.08%

    Write In 137 0.20%

    VA-05: Tom S. P. Perriello 136,094 49.99% Precincts Reporting:

       261 of 307 (85.01%)

    Voter Turnout:

       272,238 of 435,905 active voters (62.45%)

       272,238 of 443,740 total voters (61.35%) Votes by County/City

    Virgil H. Goode, Jr. 135,999 49.95%

    Write In 145 0.05%

    VA-10: Frank R. Wolf 95,928 63.73% Precincts Reporting:

       91 of 194 (46.90%)

    Voter Turnout:

       150,513 of 501,068 active voters (30.03%)

       150,513 of 516,119 total voters (29.16%) Votes by County/City

    Judy M. Feder 51,708 34.35%

    Neeraj C. Nigam 2,729 1.81%

    Write In 148 0.09%

    VA-11: Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly 53,906 50.31% Precincts Reporting:

       64 of 166 (38.55%)

    Voter Turnout:

       107,143 of 474,971 active voters (22.55%)

       107,143 of 487,078 total voters (21.99%) Votes by County/City

    Keith S. Fimian 50,807 47.41%

    Joseph P. Oddo 2,202 2.05%

    Write In 228 0.21%

  23. So how did every polling firm get Georgia so wrong.  Pres already called, Senate apparently not close, house seats staying where they were….

  24. They called it since he took the Cincinnati suburbs strong.  Had he not he would have been in trouble.  The southwest part of the state (Owensboro) will not report very friendly.

  25. Can somebody tell me why we are behind by double digits in the 3rd and also trailing in the 7th?  

  26. They’ve got 200-90 in pres race where CBS has 194-124. I’ve been watching the ghouls on FOX for this entire election cycle I want to see the life in Bill Kristol’s eyes die. Just the fact that they are even considering that the nation has switched to center-left from center-right makes me want to break out the last of my good whiskey. Hope beats division decisively I never thought I’d see the day again.

    1. Obama is close in Polk County and we’re close to pulling off a huge upset for state house seat 65.

  27. This is just so frustrating…

    Just when AL-05 surges up, AL-03 is going back to Rogers…

    I had really hoped for a sweep for all three.

    1. We’re going to lose FL state House district 9.  It’s an extremely democratic district, but republicans got for NFL superstar Peter Boulware to run.

  28. Looks like he’s gone.  Michael Jackson is taking 7% of the vote.  Landrieu is also in a tight race, yet Orleans has not reported completely.

  29. Adler just made his victory speech.  Carried Burlington County so much that the Dems won all county races – a major upset.  

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