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Election 2009 Results Thread, No. 3

by: DavidNYC

Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 10:34 PM EST


12:05AM: Please join us in the new thread.
11:49PM: Mark Kleinschmidt narrowly beat Matt Czajkowski for the mayoral job in Chapel Hill, NC.
11:46PM: Oh, yeah, so the NYC mayoral race was officially called for Bloombo, but it wound up being close - just five points. A lot of people are going to have a lot of 'splainin' to do tomorrow.
11:44PM: 85% tallied and Owens still leads 49-45 - about 4,200 votes.
11:41PM: Democrat Anthony Foxx looks to have won the Charlotte mayor's race by a little more than 3,000 votes. (All precincts are in.)
11:39PM: Out in California's 10th CD, John Garamendi is up 56-40 with 22% in.
11:35PM: Taegan Goddard says that there are 10K absentees in NY-23.
11:31PM: Good guys with a narrow lead on Washington's Ref. 71, 52-48. But remember, it can take a long time (even weeks) to count the vote in Washington.
11:28PM: Bad guys pull ahead, 51.6 to 48.4 in Maine.
11:27PM: Also in the NYC burbs, incumbent Dem Andy Spano (Westchester Co. Exec.) is getting destroyed, 58-42. Did anyone see that coming? Down in Hotlanta, Norwood is holding a lead at 45, with Reed at 37. This one looks headed to a run-off.
11:23PM: Ambitious Nassau County (Long Island) Executive Tom Suozzi is leading his Republican challenger by just 1% with half the vote counted. Suozzi would probably run for AG if Cuomo runs for governor - wonder if this might put a crimp in his plans.
11:22PM: Reid Wilson of The Hill: "Several GOP sources telling me they expect Bill Owens (D) to win NY23."
11:00PM: We are down 52-48 in that PA Sup. Ct. race - 83% reporting. Not good.
10:57PM: A bright ray of sunshine? Owens leading 49-46 with two thirds in.
10:44PM: Dave Weigel says: "WHOA - Hoffman splitting Madison County, where he was leading 2-1 in Siena Poll. Getting ready to say 'Congressman Bill Owens.'" You can get county results here.
10:33PM: The good guys have won in Kalamazoo.
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According to Political Wire, quoting Chuck Todd,
NBC never called the NYC mayors race, they merely reported the call of the exit pollster.  If that's not the biggest load of crap I've ever heard...
It's a good lesson to the observer
Look at the results yourself. I've turned the cable newsers on not at all tonight, and I don't feel any less informed.

I like my punditry better than theirs.

[ Parent ]
If I get one more race wrong tonight I hear I'll get a job at CNN
Two more and I get the Weekly Standard.

Seriously, why are some of these people allowed to be pundits when they've never worked on so much as a school board race?

21, male, CA-15 (home and voting there), LA-2 (college)


[ Parent ]
Sorry for missing this
But where can we get county results for NY-23?

Male, 23, DC-At Large
Vomiting over PA-Supreme court
down 51-48 with 77%

92% of philly is in and we're underperforming badly in philly and its suburbs.

Icing on the cake, no?
I swear if the only race we win tonight will be that stupid sideshow in upstate New York, I'll not be a happy camper. But I think we'll probably lose that too.

I wonder how CA-10 is working out?

[ Parent ]
Have a friend who lives in CA-10
and thinks we'll win just fine.

VA is no surprise, NJ isn't really one and Corzine was super crappy, so if we win NY-23 and ME-Int 1 I'll be happy.

[ Parent ]
The Maine results were really rosy
And now near-silence. I take that to be a bad sign.  
[ Parent ]
Me too.
The vote is ridiculously close.
[ Parent ]
It does not look good
 Cumberland County, a heavy No county is mostly in while rural Yes counties are mostly not in as of 15 minutes ago.

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17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
I don't know enough about
Maine to know anything anymore.  I'm just watching those numbers.
[ Parent ]
It's making me crazy!
I knew Maine would be close, but this is absurd.
[ Parent ]
CA-10 is safe and always has been
The Republicans have been trying to create a narrative about it being a close race, but it's not. Garamendi will win by double digits and will be an excellent, progressive congressman.
[ Parent ]
Sideshow? It's the important one!
Corzine was a horrible candidate, and Deeds might as well be dead.

The key race today, by far, was Ny-23.  It's the only one with major repurcussions and lessons (aside from don't run horrible hack candidates nobody likes... and for pete's sake PRIMARY duds like Corzine when you can).

[ Parent ]
The Philly suburban performance is pathetic
It's as if the Democratic shift in the last decade didn't happen.
[ Parent ]
In many ways it didn't
But there's another factor here: SEPTA went on strike today. I think that had an impact on Philly turnout.  
[ Parent ]
I hate to say this
but the union workers should know better than to go on strike on election day.
[ Parent ]
They wait for the phillies game, but not for elections

[ Parent ]
What do they want
to get Repub officials elected that will curb their right to strike?  Because that's effectively what they're doing.
[ Parent ]
It did happen
Montgomery and Delaware regularly go Democratic.  Democrats outnumber Repubs in Montgomery and Bucks.
[ Parent ]
Regularly, yes, but not consistently
Montgomery just isn't as Democratic as it can appear on a Presidential election night. And as for Bucks. . .remember that Patrick Murphy lost Bucks county on election night in 2006.  
[ Parent ]
Yeah - %&$#
  Apparently I was the only Democrat under 70 to vote in Delaware county.  Really bad.  

24, Male, GA-05
[ Parent ]
Chapel Hill, NC
will come down to absentees.  The liberal gay Democrat is leading the conservative Repub 49-48 (99 votes with all precincts in).
Vanderhye loses in HD-34
Down by 300 votes with the mystery absentee precinct left.

Republican pickups - 3rd, 23rd, 32nd, 34th, 51st, 67th, 83rd
Democratic pickups - 52nd, 93rd

Looks like Mark Keam will narrowly hold the 35th -- one Democratic precinct left and he's up by 216 votes.

Dem seats to continue watching: 21st, 41st

Looks like Marsden (D) will hold on in the 41st
He's up by about 500 votes with a couple precincts left.

I have no idea what's going on in the 21st.

[ Parent ]
So we are net R+4 right now?
Seems like it could have been far worse.
[ Parent ]
R+5
60 Republicans (including 2 Independents), 39 Democrats, and the as-yet-undecided 21st.
[ Parent ]
That hurts

[ Parent ]
You mean 50, right?

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No...
Pollsnullnullvotes yet.
nullhttp://www.sos.ca.gov/elect-results/cd10-results.htm
[ Parent ]
Right, right.
I don't know what I was thinking.
[ Parent ]
No...
The current breakdown is essentially 55-45.
[ Parent ]
Five net seats down
ugh.  I guess it could have been worse, but it could have been a lot better.  At least we've got the Senate until 2011.
[ Parent ]
I'm honestly shocked
that seven incumbent Dems lost but neither of the two vulnerable open seats (35th and 44th) were lost. I'm especially horrified that the Teabaggers' Choice, Catherine Crabill, came so close to beating Al Pollard.

Democrats dodged a few bullets -- stronger challengers could have easily taken out Ward Armstrong in the 10th and Paula Miller in the 87th, and we were incredibly lucky the Republicans didn't field anyone in the 2nd or 4th -- Bud Phillips in the 2nd, who was otherwise unopposed, had 9% write-in someone against him.

[ Parent ]
21st
mystery precinct came in -- Mathieson is now down by 16 votes. This one won't be decided tonight.
[ Parent ]
Greensboro mayor Yvonne Johnson has lost to Bill Knight.
This sucks so much.

http://www.digtriad.com/news/l...

Is he a Republican?
is so how does a Republican win against a relatively popular mayor in a 70% Democratic city>

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
He is a Republican and I have no idea how he won.

[ Parent ]
A bright ray of sunshine?
Don't tease me.
Breckenridge
Rachel just said they passed their pot law...cue the ganja breaks, dude.

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
It won big but is just symbolic
Also, the expansion of Maine's medical marijuana law looks like it will win big tonight, and it's not just symbolic as it will sanction dispensaries.
[ Parent ]
On the NY Mayor's race
     You know back in the spring and the summer. I first thought that Bloomberg was going to spank Thompson by like a margin of 59% to 39%, or something to that effect. But then I realized if you looked at the polls, Bloomberg despite the fact that he spent a gazillion dollars was always polling between 50% and 53%. I also did some work collecting signatures for Paul Vallone, who ran for the city council. I encountered a lot of people on the street who expressed there unhappiness with Bloomberg for the term limits thing. To think Obama put so much on the line in NJ. Here's a race where I think he would have made a difference.
Will some kind New Yorker help me?
Okay...I'm a poor partisan fool out here in Colorado.  I'm looking at the results by state Assembly district for the Bloomberg-Thompson race.  Why the hell would Chelsea, Tribeca-SoHo, and Greenwich Village--all populated by very liberal (though mostly Caucasian?) folks vote for Bloombo?  I mean, yes, he's isn't particularly conservative and would go over well as a centrist Dem.  But...Deborah Glick's voters also being Bloomberg supporters? Really? I mean these should not just be social liberal folks, but fiscal progressives too.  Please explain...

30, male, Democratic, CO-01
Very good questions
I suspect you've got a ton of people there who would say (honestly) something like "I absolutely never vote Republican, but ..." -- if you look at the map and the numbers, there's Bloomberg's margin of victory.
[ Parent ]
Yep
A lot of us simply think Bloomberg has done a pretty good job as Mayor and doubt Thompson would be as good. That's what it amounts to.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
[ Parent ]
Bloomberg is considered to be (heck, is) quite liberal
in a latte liberal sense. And he's also considered to be Manhattan-focused.  
[ Parent ]
I don't really know
but maybe the fact those areas have done very well in the past decade has something to do about it. We all love to be ideological, but Bloomy did give them things like the High Line park, the 7 is going to the northern part of Chelsea, and property values have soared there, so they are probably rewarding him. Interestingly, Bloomberg got spanked in the Bronx, where he removed a huge park from the poorest neighborhood in the city so the Yankees could build their shitty stadium  

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
[ Parent ]
Socially liberal areas
Bloomberg is a social liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-Green. They love him in lower Manhattan.

What's interesting is how Thompson performed in some out of the outerborough districts. He never should have won District 59 in Brooklyn or District 35 in Queens for example. Hell, he won my district, didn't see that coming AT ALL.

Thompson way outperformed expectations

[ Parent ]
Thompson
He even won over in City Island/Throgs Neck/Pelham Bay/Co-op City (though did lose Riverdale and Pelham Parkway)

really strange performance the more i look through the results

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)

[ Parent ]
Some of those areas maybe
the most anti-Bloomberg areas in the entire city.  And while everyone expected them to vote against a black, they chose to vote against Bloomberg instead.

I wonder if an anti-developer candidate like Tony Avella would have run up huge margins in Queens and the Bronx and might have toppled Bloomberg.  

[ Parent ]
I'm a gay West Sider, not in Chelsea any more
I ride a bike all the time. My diabetes doctor basically told me to exercise or start the countdown to amputations.

I ride in the 200 miles of bike lanes that the Bloomberg administration has put all over the city. Let's say that I voted FOR the Transportation Commish Janette Sadik-Kahn and her efforts to reduce traffic and make a walkable, bikable, livable city.

Meanwhile Thompson went around saying he would rip out bike lanes, and express bus lanes too! This in a city where the majority of households do not own a car. But Thompson said he was worried that exclusive curbside bus lanes reduce parking spaces. He obviously just doesn't get the whole climate change thing. He didn't get my vote.

[ Parent ]
yeah
I don't know why he did that. The BX-12 express bus has been a godsend, why would he go so anti-transit/anti-bike like he did? Just to create an issue where he and Mike disagreed? He comes out as a fighter for transit and chances are he wins the 27,000 or so voters that would have swung this election to him. He should have known he'd never win Staten Island or Eastern Queens no matter how much he said they should retain their cheap parking and no tolls into Manhattan.  

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
[ Parent ]
Nice!
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - I caught Watertown, N.Y., Mayor Jeff Graham, who endorsed NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman this weekend, looking very glum at Hoffman's election party. I asked him what happened in Jefferson County, where Watertown is located, and where Democrat Bill Owens is leading the vote.

"We lost," said Graham. "The Scozzafava endorsement, the [Watertown Daily Times] endorsement of Owens-I mean, they roughed Hoffman up."

Could Hoffman still pull out a win? Graham grimaced. "It's over."

http://washingtonindependent.c...

it is
I mean Owens is performing stellar everywhere.  

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
Hoffman Only Got 50.1% in Hamilton County....
....the single New York county that voted for Howard Mills over Chuck Schumer in 2004.  That's crazy low.
[ Parent ]
The Fort
 The people there love their fort. Hoffman did not know that and the people there found that out pretty quickly.

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17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
Scozzafava
did have her strongest performance in the district there though.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
Take a look at this
County Executive - Nassau - General
540 of 1142 Precincts Reporting - 47%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Suozzi, Thomas (i) Dem 50,772 49%
Mangano, Edward GOP 49,803 48%
Hansen, Steven Con 3,968 4%

This is probably the end of Tom Suozzi's statewide aspirations.

Ugh
I liked Suozzi.  Where are you getting this from?  Is Lesko done in Brookhaven too?

29/D/Male/NY-01
[ Parent ]
Lesko's doing fine, winning 56%-44%
Suozzi's people expected it to be close. Kathleen Rice is running away with reelection as DA, Republicans make take the Nassau County legislature, but that was expected.  
[ Parent ]
wow
Spano seems to be going down (he's behind 58-42) up in Westchester with 56% in

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
[ Parent ]
Yep, looks like it
Pathetic performance.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
71% in for NY-23
Owens holding steady at about a 4% lead.  I'm feeling pretty good about this one.

That PPP poll that had Hoffman ahead by 20% was WAY off.

That laughable PPP poll
was not just ridiculous, it really calls into question the whole company.  They just didn't get it.

They should not have been polling that day, and they should have stopped the instant DeDe quit.  Just pathetic.

The thing that it does though as make this result seem like a surprise when it was not.   Owens narrowly lead the whole way, and he ended up winning.  Duh.

[ Parent ]
Here is the link for CA-10.
Pollsnullnullvotes yet.
nullhttp://www.sos.ca.gov/elect-results/cd10-results.htm

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
Numbers getting worse for No on One
50.9% yes - 49.1% no now with 55% of precincts in.
Let me try again.
I have no idea where those "null"s are coming from.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elect-re...

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)

Not exactly the AP
but albanyproject calls it for Owens

http://www.thealbanyproject.co...

NY-23
According to political wire, there are 10,000 absentee ballots to count.  
While I'm fairly certain that Corzine lost
the total does include early voting number, right?
GM
Gay Marriage looks to be dead in Maine now down 52-48 and dropping like a brick.

29/D/Male/NY-01
You are mixed up
Yes is pro gay rights and No is anti gay marriage.

Yes is winning 52-48.

[ Parent ]
No, Yes is to reject gay marriage
No is to keep it
[ Parent ]
No
We want No to win.
[ Parent ]
No that's Washington
No is good.
[ Parent ]
Incorrect
No is yes to gay marriage, yes is no to gay marriage.

Confusing damn ballot initiatives.  There's a reason we have legislatures...

[ Parent ]
First CA-10 numbers.
Garamendi leads 51-43 with 1.10% of precincts in.

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
Now it's 56-39 Garamendi with 9% in.
I'm feeling confident we'll hold this one.

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
[ Parent ]
56.4-39.2 with 9.16% in

[ Parent ]
Garamendi should win by about 15%...
...but about 5% of the vote is bleeding over to more progressive third-party folks in this race. Thus, Garamendi's gonna probably get about 55% of the vote in a district where he oughta get closer to 60%.

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[ Parent ]
Not 5%.
The American Independent Party is NOT progressive.  It is FAR, FAR right, California's equivalent of the Constitution Party.

A little over 3% of the vote is going to actual progressive 3rd parties.

[ Parent ]
crazy day
Wow, George Wallace's party shows up in the comments today.

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
[ Parent ]
With 28.57% of precincts in...
John Garamendi (D) 42,608 (56.12%)
David Harmer (R) 30,015 (39.53%)
Jeremy Cloward (G) 1,504 (1.98%)
Mary McIlroy (P&F) 1,004 (1.32%)
Jerome Denham (AI) 792 (1.04%)
[ Parent ]
WA R-71
Reject - 53.6%
Accept - 46.4%

13% in.  

remind me
which side are the good guys on?
[ Parent ]
Yes is to Protect rights
No is to remove rights. Opposite of Maine.
[ Parent ]
David NYC
REJECT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW
Yes  190057 51.66%
No  177857 48.34%

Yes is what we want right?

We want NO!
No means no to discrimination.  

CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
[ Parent ]
No, we want No

[ Parent ]
Not in Maine.
Yes is yes to marriage discrimination.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
[ Parent ]
crap
sorry guys, was confused because Bangormaine website changes the one on top based on who is winning thus I just assumed that yes was good.  My bad.
That's why I thought we had a shot with this (and we still do)
It is confusing, and when people get confused they typically vote no.  But we'll see ...  
[ Parent ]
Did we lose NJ-Assembly?

No
looks like it's unchanged
[ Parent ]
Pheew
Further evidence that this was about one person: Jon Corzine. Now they need to pass marriage equality before Christie is sworn in.  
[ Parent ]
Absolutely
if it were Cory Booker or Richard Codey on top of the ticket, we'd have won in a lanslide.

I suspect Bookers runs in 2013.  

[ Parent ]
One R pickup in AD4.


34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
[ Parent ]
Missed that
because it was an Open Seat
[ Parent ]
Ah
I think we can sustain that!

[ Parent ]
NY-23 84 Percent in
49 percent Owens
46 percent Hoffman
5 percent Dede
How are the pot referendums doing in Maine and Colorado?


CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
Pot won
in Colorado.

34, WM, Democrat, FL-11
[ Parent ]
Has a medical marijuana referendum
lost anywhere?  It seems to me that it has won whenever it has been on the ballot.
[ Parent ]
South Dakota lost
In 2006. Otherwise, all other medical marijuana measures have passed, usually by large margins.
[ Parent ]
Both passed by huge margins

[ Parent ]
great n/t :).


CO-02 (college)/FL-15 (home).  
[ Parent ]
Don't see absentees coming to Hoffman's rescue
As many have pointed out a lot were done when Dede was in the race.  She'll probably get too many Republican absentees (especially the ones from when she was viable) for Hoffman to get the margin he needs assuming the current numbers hold up.  Unless Hoffman has an amazing absentee program he's probably not going to win based on them.

21, male, CA-15 (home and voting there), LA-2 (college)


I doubt Hoffman had any absentee program

[ Parent ]
I have no way of knowing
His campaign people probably weren't the most experienced (getting help from the RNC and NRCC only after absentees were probably due) but he got help from groups like the Club for Growth and Susan B Anthony List who probably have some experience in this kind of thing.  But I doubt his program, if it exists, is good enough.  

21, male, CA-15 (home and voting there), LA-2 (college)


[ Parent ]
Maine
What's left to be counted?  The bigots are up by 4 points (15,500 votes).

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AP: Thompson beat Bloomy 3-1 in black, Hispanic districts
No specifics, but I've overheard that Thompson carried The Bronx and Brooklyn, they tied in Manhattan, and Bloomberg carried Queens and Staten Island comfortably.

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Intrestring
What exactly is the vote count in this race. No one here has posted it. Only thing I know is Bloombo is up.
[ Parent ]
556,775 to 506,501


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[ Parent ]
Everyone owes an apology to Geoff Garin

[ Parent ]
Yeah
Thompson easily won Bronx and Brooklyn...he might have even won Manhattan too.

This looks like the 2001 race replayed.  

[ Parent ]
I'd be happy if
Staten Island finally did what they always threaten to do and bitch about doing, and just secede from New York City and help give Democrats a shot at winning the mayoral race sometime in the near future.  

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
Bad night for us
I knew that Virginia was going to be a killing field for us, but I thought Corzine could narrowly pull it out in the end.

Anyone notice that New Jersey might most likely join Virginia in favoring the party out of the White House.

George H.W. Bush (R) (1988-1992) -- Jim Florio (D) (1989-1993)
Bill Clinton (D) (1992-2000) -- Christine Todd Whitman (R)(1993-2001) **term ended early due to appointment to EPA
George W. Bush (R) (2000-2008) -- Jim McGreevey (D) (2001-2004)
                                    Richard Codey (D) (2004-2005)
                                    Jon Corzine (D) (2005-2009)
Barack Obama (D) (2008-??) -- Chris Christie (R) (2009-??)

19, Male, Independent, CA-12

Minnesota
No suprises.

R.T. Rybak (D) easily wins re-election in Minnepolis. Chris Coleman (D) is re-elected in St Paul and St Paul also approves Instant Runoff voting.

http://www.startribune.com/

"Where free Unions and collective bargaining is forbidden, freedom is lost." - Ronald Reagan

Atlanta Mayor heading to a runoff
With 97% in, City Councilwoman Mary Norwood has 43% to former State Senator Kasim Reed's 38%.  

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I think Reed will win this runoff
It will go down on black-white lines, and there are more blacks.
[ Parent ]
Well, Norwood didn't get this far without significant black support.
However, things seemed to falter for her at the end.  After months of being called a Democrat by the media, she finally said she was an independent.  She's been taking a beating ever since for it.  The chairwoman of the state Democratic Party hit Norwood pretty hard and the incumbent mayor endorsed Reed.

I too think Reed will win.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

[ Parent ]
Constantine (D) up 57% to 43% over Hutchison (R)
(35,000 vote lead) in King County executive race.  

http://your.kingcounty.gov/ele...

McGinn up by 900 votes over Mallahan (out of 89,000 cast) in Seattle Mayor's race.

http://your.kingcounty.gov/ele...

According to the results schedule, the next update will not be until Wednesday afternoon.

The Seattlites better get a good slate.
I'd hate to move there to attend UW only to find they have shitty leaders. :p

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[ Parent ]
MSNBC: No result out of NY-23 'til tomorrow
Southampton...
So we lose Westchester, lose Nassau, but pick up the Supervisor seat in friggin Southampton? I know its much more demographically varied than the storied village of Southampton that lies within the town of Southampton (confused yet), but still is significant.  

25, Male, CT-01 (home), Perth-Wellington riding (sometimes)
Republican Wins PA Supreme Court Race
CNN projects Owens wins
I wonder if this will convince the GOP not to run these kinds of candidates in moderate districts. A mainsteam conservative would even be fine (and one can argue McHugh himself is more that than an actual moderate) but by all accounts Hoffman was much further to the right than that. So the GOP should be happy tonight but the far right should feel a little disappointed.
Not so sure about that
Their winning candidate for VA-Gov is far right, and Christie isn't exactly a moderate, at least in his actions. I think he'll be a pretty bad governor.

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"
--  Will Rogers  
[ Parent ]
Remember that the GOP didn't run Hoffman
They ran Scozzafava.  It was the Palinites and teabaggers who backed Hoffman.   Before Sarah Palin endorsed Hoffman, I don't think Hoffman would have been anything but a spoiler who got 20-25% of the vote and threw the election to Owens.

If the GOP doesn't run Hoffmans, then there will be third party challenges.  

[ Parent ]
Roundup of some minor votes
Ohio - Issue 3 passes which means casinos are legal.

CT - Stamford elected a Republican mayor.

Taxpayer bill of rights fall in Maine and Washington

Medicinal marijuana wins in Maine while legalized marijuana wins in Breckinridge, Colorado

Hopefully those casinos
will boost OH's struggling economy.
[ Parent ]
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