House called for Dems!

[shetline]

w00t!

How's everyone's ESP doing, huh? :)

[Fellowship]

The real story here is,,,

Bush Lost.

Take that Sean Hannity.

Fellowship

[shetline]

I wish I could crow about the Senate, but I can gloat enough as it is so far. :)

VA is so close (with Allen leading Webb at the moment), it looks like an automatic recount will end up being invoked, so if two other Senate seats go Dem, Dems tie the Senate, with a full win hanging on a recount.

[jimmac]

The way the polls have been was there ever any doubt ( I know amongst some of you oh ye of little faith )?:D

The funny thing is after what I'm seeing tonight they just might have a real chance at the senate also!:wow:

[SDW2001]

The way the polls have been was there ever any doubt?:D

The funny thing is after what I'm seeing tonight they just might have a real chance at the senate also!:wow:

Nope. Reps will keep it.

Allen, Talent and Corker will all win

[hardeeharhar]

I won't admit I was wrong until i see the numbers fall...

[SDW2001]

Cnn says its over. Congrats guys. Please don't reverse my tax cuts and pull us out of Iraq tomorrow

[hardeeharhar]

sdw... i actually think you might get a tax cut depending on your tax bracket... if bush approves it...

[SDW2001]

sdw... i actually think you might get a tax cut depending on your tax bracket... if bush approves it...

let's hope. I am just weary of the plan to raise taxes on the upper level. That will harm the economy. With the housing bust, that's what's going to happen.

[mydo]

let's hope. I am just weary of the plan to raise taxes on the upper level. That will harm the economy. With the housing bust, that's what's going to happen.


Maybe they will vote to take your crack pipe away?

[spindler]

It is so sweet that there is finally someone there to suck some power away from Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice. It feels like a dictatorship has ended. These people will finally be held accountable and will not be able to go on with the "cut and run" and "the insurgency is in its last throes" stuff.

Americans have told Bush what they have thought of him. I wonder if his small brain is capable of adjusting and compromising at this point, or it is simply impossible for him.

[shetline]

Damn! Webb has actually pulled ahead by about 2300 votes. We're almost certainly in automatic recount territory, but now with Webb having the tiny lead.

Still, two more Senate seats will be hard to pull off. I think TN is probably a lost cause, MO and MN will be tough wins.

[hardeeharhar]

Do all urban areas report last?

[AsLan^]

I, for one, welcome our new democratic overlords :) :) :)

[BRussell]

I just saw Bill Kristol on Fox say he thinks Dems are going to win all the outstanding Senate races except TN. Even Missouri, where the current numbers show Talent ahead, he said he thinks most votes that haven't come in yet are in very heavy Democratic areas.

[SDW2001]

Tester is leading in MT. We only need one more.

You need 3 of 4. VA is a toss up. TN is gone. That means you need to run the table. Talent is likely going to hold. I think the Senate is going to stay.

[spindler]

It's only taken Americans 3.5 years to realize what was obvious to us. But anyway, at least some of my faith has been restored in the American people. I have to commend people who are regular Republican voters but took a look at the situation and said enough is enough.

[SDW2001]

VA=Webb, possible toss up (D)
TN=Corker=called (R)
MO=Talent=bascially over (R)
MI=Tester=likely (D)

You'll be one short. And guess who whould have tipped it?:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Shouldn't have screwed Liebermann, huh?

[hardeeharhar]

VA=Webb, possible toss up (D)
TN=Corker=called (R)
MO=Talent=bascially over (R)
MI=Tester=likely (D)

You'll be one short. And guess who whould have tipped it?:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Shouldn't have screwed Liebermann, huh?
That's not quite right... the counts are including Liebermann and Jefords...

[hardeeharhar]

Right.

[BRussell]

Blacks just can't win. Ford (D) in TN and Steele (R) in MD were both, by all accounts, better candidates than their white opponents.

[BRussell]

I also find the coverage of VA interesting. Webb is leading and there are apparently going to be recounts. Everyone is saying it's close and we don't know who won. That's correct of course, but it's quite different from how Florida 2000 was covered, where it was "Bush won" and whiners are trying to steal the election from him.

[BRussell]

McCaskill just went ahead. What the fuck is it with the Democratic regions taking their time and dumping all their votes at the end?

[addabox]

Really. But McCaskill appears to be pulling away, Tester is holding a strong lead.

I dunno, SDW, you may have to turn in your prognosticator badge.

[Gilsch]

Maybe they will vote to take your crack pipe away? Now now. Don't be so mean. If the crack pipe will keep him from a straight jacket let him keep it.

Great night tonight. :)

[shetline]

McCaskill just went ahead. What the fuck is it with the Democratic regions taking their time and dumping all their votes at the end?
They're drama queens? :D

A lot of Dem-heavy voting is in big cities, and I'm guessing it's somehow harder logistically to pull all the results together quickly in urban areas.

[SDW2001]

Really. But McCaskill appears to be pulling away, Tester is holding a strong lead.

I dunno, SDW, you may have to turn in your prognosticator badge.

Yeah really. I thought Talent was locked. He lost....she came out of nowhere on that one.

[Carson O'Genic]

Well we're in recount land once again, but it is looking good for the Dems. Yeah!

I got this from the Daily Kos:

MT-Sen, VA-Sen: Allen and Burns don't believe in recounts
by kos
Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 09:11:27 AM PST

Both Allen and Burns will have the right to call for a recount, it seems. Yet given their prior public comments on recounts, we should expect them to pass.

Burns press release, 11/28/2000:


On November 28, 2000, when the Florida election results were certified, Conrad Burns said Gore "appears more and more like a man who wants to win at any cost." Burns added, "It is time, as some have said, for Vice President Gore to stop being a litigant and start being a Patriot. The good of our nation is greater than any one man, and it is time for Mr. Gore to end these challenges and bow out gracefully."


More Burns in the 11/30/2000 Great Falls Tribune:


At the end of November 2000, Conrad Burns said he would like to see an end to Gore's legal efforts in Florida. Burns said, "Mr. Gore should step aside and let the Bush team begin its orderly transition to the presidency."


And Allen on the Today show 11/8/2000:


The morning after Election Day 2000, when Florida was counting absentee ballots, George Allen said, "we'll need to move America forward as soon
as those votes are cast."


I'm sure these former Senators will stand by their words, and not develop a double standard now. Right?

Right? -end quote