143 thoughts on “Election Night Liveblog Thread #2”

  4. We’re on the bad side of many of them right now, but it could just be GOP areas reporting. Even the Michigan races are very close, not sure what’s going on.

  11. Mostly Republican areas left in VA-05, I’m not sure if Perriello can hold on. He’ll need everything in Danville and Brunswick.

    Nye is still looking great in VA-02.

  15. GMH> wow

    GMH> we might get three flips

    GMH> in virginia

    GMH> i think this year our biggest gains will be in the house

    GMH> the senate will be slightly underwhelming at +8

    GMH> though we’re all depending on georgia

  16. 46% Reporting

    56.3% McMahon

    37.5% Straniere

    6.2% Others

    Obama almost 42% w/63% Reporting

    Don’t know why delay in local district reporting but best I could find.

  19. we won’t know for a while > Macon county – largest African American county in the country – will be big for Segall and has not come in yet. will swing it back 5,000 votes or more

  21. GA-Sen: cutting off its clawed hands

    MS-Sen*: cutting off its pouncing legs

    unfortunately didn’t pan out:

    KY-Sen: beheading the Republican beast

    OK-Sen: ripping out its heart

    ID-Sen: torturing its flesh

    TX-Sen: tearing off its skin

  25. Hanna (R) 52

    Arcuri (D) 48

    68% reporting.

    Was this on anyone’s maps?  Any idea what’s going on here?

  40. Arcuri just took a small lead with 91% in. Many of these districts are starting to slide to the Democrats. New Mexico just shifted as well a long with NJ-03, looking much better now.

  50.  3475 of 3956 Precincts  

    88%

    Mary Landrieu (D)

    779,733

    51%

    John Kennedy (R)

    717,963

    47%

    Richard Fontanesi (L)

    15,179

    1%

    Jay Patel

    11,026

    1%

    Robert Stewart

    7,568

    0%

  52. Where the hell is the black vote in that district?  I thought their turnout would put Cazayoux over the top.  Jackson only got around 10% of the vote.  We should have won that one.

  55. in early returns.  That’s probably good enough to win since Obama is going to sweep the state by double digits.

    Also, they’ve called Perdue the winner in North Carolina.  Phew!

  59. Drinking and not annoying my girlfriend delayed my commenting until now, but all I can say is thank fuck!

    Election is won, Grayson overperformed, so I’m hoping aggression plays this time. Even if not, it will in 2012, so I’m hoping a pattern is established.

    If not, I’ll run in PA-06 in 2010. Sure, I’m ineligible. But I’m angry enough that I’ll make sure I have more than 20% name recognition.

  67. It’s been a mixed night for me… as much as I loved the Obama win, the House Results are just… a bit of downer than what I was expecting…

    Losing LA-06 and AL-03 are just disappointing, not to mention TX-22 seemed to be sliping away as well…

    We managed to get quite a few seats in the South close, but just not close enough.

  71. New Mexico all blue? How ’bout them apples Republicans? Teague better get ready for some serious opposition from here on out.

    My advice: start fundraising now.

  73. Does anyone else loathe the Independence Party?  Cause I loathe the Independence Party.  It looks like they’re gonna block us on both house races.

    1. it says that obama and mccain are nearly tied at 420000 or so, and ABC has them at about a million.

  79. I have to say I’m a bit disappointed with our congressional showing.  We’re looking at gains of probably in the low to mid 20’s.  A good showing, but could have been better.

  82. Sam Bennett lost by double digits in D+2 PA-15.

    Becky Greenwald is losing by double digits in D+0 IA-04.

    Linda Stender lost in R+1 NJ-07 (an open seat).

    Vic Wulsin and Anne Barth lost in OH-02 and WV-02, respectively.

    I hope Darcy Burner pulls through in WA-08, but it doesn’t look good.

    Jill Derby also doesn’t appear likely to win in NV-02.

    Kay Barnes was considered a great candidate but didn’t win in MO-06.

    Although Kay Hagan and Jeanne Shaheen won Senate seats, and Betsy Markey beat the horrendous Marilyn Musgrave, it wasn’t a great night for Democratic women overall.  

  88. Very happy about the Pres result. Not for other results. Franken isn’t looking good. And same with MN-03 and MN-06. We lost a lot of races we should have won and my predictions are off by a lot. Should have gone with my lows not my highs.

    One bright spot down ticket is Perriello winning. Other then that I’m not seeing a lot of stuff to be real happy about.

  89. In short, very disappointing.

    In the state House it looks like we only gained 1 net seat, making the republican majority 76-44.  We may actually see no net gain at all if Debbie Boyd doesn’t hang on to her narrow lead in FL-11.  I believe she is Congressman Allen Boyd’s (FL-02) wife.

    The FL state Senate will have no chance, staying at a 26-14 republican majority.

    1. I predicted the state for him. Obama has been there so much and McCain never went. If you’re undecided on the election, you’re going to go with the guy who cared about the state.

  90. I think picking up AL-2 (hasn’t had a Democratic congressman since 1962) and holding AL-5 more than make up for losing LA-6. Besides, Cazayoux could always run against Vitter in 2010.

  91.  Saxby Chambliss – R Incumbent   1,623,160   51%  

    Jim Martin – D 1,449,944 46%

    Allen Buckley – L 111,165 3%

    There aren’t 30,000 votes left for him to lose. This should be a 50% win call for every one left who hasn’t called it.

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