Isn’t it about time to call the three races in California? I suppose we’ll have to wait a while for the remaining race in New York.
According to the California SoS site, McNerney leads by almost 2500 and over 1%, Costa leads by over 3000 and 3.6% and Harris leads in the AG vote by 54,000 and by .5%.
It looks to me like Bishop will win in NY-1. I am sure that the challenged ballots will have to be examined and Altschuler is within his right to make sure everything is on the up and up, but Melissa Bean also lost by less than 300 votes and she didn’t have a recount.
Democrats look like they’ve done pretty well since election night. They won the cliffhanger elections in the Senate and for governor’s chairs and they unofficially went 11-4 in races decided after election day.
There are open threads every day to make general points like this. I think that the diaries should be reserved for “projects” that take a good deal of time and thought to create–such as a redistricting map, election predictions, deep analysis of a poll or campaign, or the excellent local analyses we had of Michigan and TX-27 today.