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2010 Election Results

angrysoba said:
So, she is. Well, she had been behind.

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We won't really know until tomorrow unless the ballots that went to the post offices today are being delivered to the people counting today. There were a significant number of ballots mailed today.
 
All 3 of the Iowa supreme court justices up for retention are currently losing by ~5% margins with 67% of precincts reporting. There's been a strong push to oust them after the court unanimously struck down Iowa's ban on same sex marriage. This one is a gutpunch. I didn't expect it at all.

Come on Iowa, you're better than this.
 
JoeB said:
All 3 of the Iowa supreme court justices up for retention are currently losing by ~5% margins with 67% of precincts reporting. There's been a strong push to oust them after the court unanimously struck down Iowa's ban on same sex marriage. This one is a gutpunch. I didn't expect it at all.

Come on Iowa, you're better than this.
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Damn... I didn't see that one coming either.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
MSNBC says 57% is in. Reid remains ahead. But they caution that the votes are heavily Las Vegas so rural votes are not evenly represented.
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This leads to a very interesting question.

ABCnews.com at 12:02
Senate(D-R) 50-45
House (R-D) 224-175

MSNBC at 12:05
Senate(D-R) 50-44
House (R-D) 202-139

Foxnews.com at 12:07
Senate(D-R) 48-44
House (R-D) 200-138

CNN.com at 12:08
Senate(D-R) 49-44
House (R-D) 193-141
 
I see Vermont is still too close to call on the Governor's race. Interesting, as the Democrat, Peter Shumlin, was trailing after the primary, which he won only after a recount, but his opponent, Brian Dubie, considered the man to beat in summer, may have dropped the ball after an uncharacteristically negative campaign. I guess we'll see.
 
wastepanel said:
This leads to a very interesting question.

ABCnews.com at 12:02
Senate(D-R) 50-45
House (R-D) 224-175

MSNBC at 12:05
Senate(D-R) 50-44
House (R-D) 202-139

Foxnews.com at 12:07
Senate(D-R) 48-44
House (R-D) 200-138

CNN.com at 12:08
Senate(D-R) 49-44
House (R-D) 193-141
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I think the stations reporting 50 D for the Senate are counting the 2 independents as D. Fox of course would not choose to do that. And CNN might be calling Bernie Sanders a D and Leiberman either and I or an R. ;)
 
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MSNBC called Inouye (D) in Hawaii, no surprise there. That's 50 for the Dems.
MSNBC called Kirk (R) in Illinois

Reid is leading in Nevada. Murray leading in Washington, but very close.
Bennett is hanging on in Colorado but just barely.

Toomey (R) hasn't been called the winner in PA yet, but that looks like a done deal.
 
JoeB said:
All 3 of the Iowa supreme court justices up for retention are currently losing by ~5% margins with 67% of precincts reporting. There's been a strong push to oust them after the court unanimously struck down Iowa's ban on same sex marriage. This one is a gutpunch. I didn't expect it at all.

Come on Iowa, you're better than this.
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With 80% of precincts reporting, I am throughly disgusted with my state.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Well, I'm fresh from volunteering for the Patty Murray campaign and I can report WA state is going to be racked with scandal and contested vote counts for months.

The state went to all absentee balloting (aka all mail in ballots) after the 2008 election. So this is the first election since that change with a large voter turnout. Low and behold the bugs have not been worked out. Hundreds of people showed up to vote in the very few places one could vote if you lost your ballot or did not receive one in the mail. People were waiting 3 or more hours in line to vote at Bellevue City Hall this evening to see 3 people who could look up their voter registration.

Six of us went to the polling place to hand out food and water to people waiting in line so they wouldn't leave before voting. When I left an hour before the polls closed, there were >200 people in line waiting to vote. There were dozens circling the parking lot waiting for a spot to open so they could park and come get in line but there were way more people coming to the lot than were finishing voting and vacating a parking spot.

Wow, what an absolute incompetent election board mess.

This is a heavily Democratic Party county. The same scenario was playing out in the only 3 locations people without mail in ballots could vote. I have no knowledge yet if the same was true in Spokane, which is in a heavily Republic Party county. But if all those folks could easily vote and Democrats could not, and we have a close race for Senator (Murray vs Rossi), then what a messy election this is going to turn out to be.
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I wonder why so many showed up? Did it have to do with failed ballot mailings, like we had over here on the east side? (Franklin County)
 
I bet the republicans/teabaggers will claim victory saying they will be slowing down the slide to communism. Obama will have to give some concessions to them. Isn't this what they call a lame duck congress.
 
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