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1. #1
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:43 pm, DenizenZERO said:

   This entire night would almost be worth it if Murtha goes down.

2. #2
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm, the_moll said:

   You said it, DenizenZERO.

3. #3
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm, hawkeye54 said:

   This entire night would almost be worth it if Murtha goes down.

   Murtha will win. PA Dems vote twice and BRAG about it!

4. #4
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm, formerwm said:

   How can the call NM when the polls were still open?

5. #5
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, d1carter said:

   I have been watching this race, it doesn’t look good for the home team.

6. #6
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm, formerwm said:

   FOX News talks as if it is all over.

7. #7
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm, William Amos said:

   34% rporting

   MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
   24,830 52.8%
   RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
   22,201 47.2%

8. #8
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm, MtsEdge said:

   It would be a great travesty if that traitor Murtha stays in office. Brought to you by the same people who are voting for Obama to take their jobs away.

9. #9
   On November 4th, 2008 at 9:51 pm, William Amos said:

   KANJORSKI, PAUL E. (DEM)
   51,831 51.1%
   BARLETTA, LOU (REP)
   49,657 48.9%

10. #10
    On November 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm, William Amos said:

    34.3%

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    25,555 52.7%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    22,979 47.3%

11. #11
    On November 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm, William Amos said:

    Wa hoo !

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    26,676 52.3%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    24,308 47.7%

12. #12
    On November 4th, 2008 at 9:56 pm, galileo said:

    I guess when given the offer of “free” money, most people will take the money.

13. #13
    On November 4th, 2008 at 9:57 pm, dan708 said:

    So the heroic Lou Barletta is trailing and John Moutha is ahead? God help us if things stay that way. I would be terribly ashamed of my fellow Keystone-Staters! If the Phillies hadn’t won the WS, I might be looking for a bridge to leap from!

14. #14
    On November 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm, William Amos said:

    Its closer than you think most of the votes that have come in are from strong democratic areas like Johnston and Washington PA

    The outer districts are coming in slower

15. #15
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, William Amos said:

    ROGGIO, BOB (DEM)
    13,011 49.5%
    GERLACH, JIM (REP)
    13,249 50.5%

16. #16
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm, William Amos said:

    sigh

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    33,834 53.6%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    29,241 46.4

17. #17
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:05 pm, Misscheryl said:

    absolutely unfreakin believable.

18. #18
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, William Amos said:

    The GOP has absolutely no clue on how to win elections. They stink right now.

    I wish Peggy had taken me up on my offer to help Russell win. I know how to beat the democratic machine

19. #19
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm, see-dubya said:

    Hey, look, when John Murtha makes a f’in deal, he wants to make sure he knows exactly what he’s doing and he can either do something for you or not do something for you. (Language warning!)

20. #20
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, William Amos said:

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    44,238 54.6%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    36,713 45.4%

21. #21
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:11 pm, William Amos said:

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    58,596 54.5%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    48,872 45.5%

22. #22
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, Send_Me said:

    Of course the exit polls early in the day point towards Obama: those of us who work for a living hadn’t gotten off work yet.

23. #23
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, William Amos said:

    Please please someone in the RNC hire me ! 15 years I warned you this day would come and I got ignored

24. #24
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:14 pm, William Amos said:

    sigh

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    61,156 54.8%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    50,431 45.2%

25. #25
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:14 pm, DerKrieger said:

    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, William Amos said:

    I’m more concerned that facts simply don’t seem to matter.

26. #26
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pm, William Amos said:

    Ugh

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    87,059 58.4%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    61,933 41.6%

27. #27
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, William Amos said:

    Please please someone in the RNC hire me ! 15 years I warned you this day would come and I got ignored

    You and me both…they need some fresh new faces, don’t you think?

28. #28
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm, William Amos said:

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    91,249 58.3%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    65,233 41.7%

29. #30
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:26 pm, William Amos said:

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    93,417 58.1%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    67,433 41.9

30. #31
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:27 pm, thirteen28 said:

    If these guys return Murtha to congress, then they are every bit the stupid mouthbreathers he said they were.

    My God, where else could a candidate to brazenly insult his own constituents and still count on them to vote for him so readily?

31. #32
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pm, William Amos said:

    Its the pork stupid (meaning Murtha)

32. #33
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pm, formerwm said:

    Murtha just declared victory

33. #34
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:31 pm, DenizenZERO said:

    Thirteen28,

    My God, where else could a candidate to brazenly insult his own constituents and still count on them to vote for him so readily?

    The Twilight Zone, man. The freaking Twilight Zone.

34. #35
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pm, meatpieandtatters said:

    I lived in Pittsburgh for a lot of my life. The people, for the most part, are warm-hearted and devoted to a fault. Unfortunately, they also have an affinity for worthless politicians who openly express disdain and rebuke them.

35. #36
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm, William Amos said:

    The GOP has NO CLUE on how to doGOTV or or party building.

    Russell wasted too many dollars on BMV which only exists to drain funds from GOP candidates and cost them elections.

    I tried to convince Peggy that mass mailing was a failure and it shows.

    The GOP must completely rebuild itself.

36. #37
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Well we go back in two years and have at him again. Plannng for the next battle starts in the morning.

37. #38
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:37 pm, William Amos said:

    THIS is the kind of stupidity that the GOP does

    When a Massachusetts Republican raises nearly $2 million in a bid to unseat a Democratic US senator, it should be a good sign that the campaign wars are in full throttle in this notoriously one-sided state.

    But Jeff Beatty, the GOP’s hope for unseating John F. Kerry, is struggling to register even a blip on the state’s electoral landscape. In fact, Kerry, a four-term senator with $5 million in his political account, is hardly breaking a sweat in the final days leading up to next Tuesday’s election.

    The reason for the deafening political silence: Beatty has been able to use only a fraction of his donations directly on his race.

    The rest, well over $1.7 million, has gone to Response America, a direct mail firm out of Arlington, Va., and its vendors.

    BMV that russell used is just as bad

38. #39
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    I guess the people of his district don’t mind being called rednecks or racists.

39. #40
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm, William Amos said:

    BMW part of story

    The Globe reported in June that Charles A. Morse, a Brookline Republican, used a Washington, D.C.-based fund-raising operation, BMW Direct, to raise more than $700,000 in 2006 to run against US Representative Barney Frank. After he waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign to win the primary, Morse never appeared on the general election ballot.

40. #41
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm, thirteen28 said:

    Murtha just declared victory

    Sorry Western PA, but you people truly are idiots. You deserve all the shinola you will get with Obama as president and with Murtha (who is laughing at you) as your representative. Enjoy the pain, dumbasses.

41. #42
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pm, William Amos said:

    Some good news

    18th Congressional District

    Candidate Votes Percent
    O’DONNELL, STEVE (DEM)
    92,302 36.8%
    MURPHY, TIM (REP)
    158,541 63.2%

42. #43
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm, Send_Me said:

    Oh well look, Dick Durbin won a 3rd term in Illinois. Gotta love it- there’s Chicago and East Saint Louis, then there’s the rest of the state. How I love fighting a war for this country, only to be compared to Nazi soldiers by my very own Senator. Thank you, my fellow Illinoisans. Sleep well this night. We, the ones on whom you appreciate not, my true American brothers and I, are covering down for you.

43. #44
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm, William Amos said:

    MURTHA, JOHN P. (DEM)
    118,358 57.7%
    RUSSELL, WILLIAM (REP)
    86,933 42.3%

44. #45
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm, Patrick Britton said:

    Dear God my fellow Pennsylvanians need their heads examined. Looks like I need to move south.

45. #46
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, katieanne said:

    This doesn’t say much for the intelligence of the people of PA. They have chosen corruption over integrity.

46. #47
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm, Mark La Roi said:

    Y’all have to remember that this is Pennsylvania, where we complain about how bad the government is and yet every chance we get we vote the same ideology back into power no matter what.

    No matter what.

    It won’t be a surprise if Mr.Obama wins Pennsylvania because all the way from bankrupt Pittsburgh to “heavy” governor Rendell and the casino plans we just keep beating our heads against the wall and hoping that the pain will go away when the bricks get softer.

47. #48
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm, Patrick Britton said:

    People don’t change around here. The Democrats can come out and do whatever he wants because people are too stupid to vote otherwise. “I’m in a union so I guess I have to vote Democrat.” That’s the way people think and it’s quite despairing.

48. #49
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm, CleanGuy said:

    Pathetic. Murtha stays, Franken get in… The world has truly gone mad…

49. #50
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    The Evil party and the
    Stupid party…

    We either re-build the stupid party from the ground up or start a new one with excellent business-marketing minds….and –a good grasp of the true history of the founding of this country…..!!!!!!
    C-CS

50. #51
    On November 4th, 2008 at 10:53 pm, thirteen28 said:

    This doesn’t say much for the intelligence of the people of PA. They have chosen corruption over integrity.

    Worse than that, they’ve chosen someone who has demonstrated true contempt for them.

    Hell, why shouldn’t the rest of us have contempt for them now.

    I hope these people suffer greatly when Obama puts the brakes on new coal plants.

51. #52
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:06 pm, richardbo said:

    I don’t feel so good. All the wrong neighbors are partying.

52. #53
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:11 pm, richardbo said:

    And I live in Guatemala.

53. #54
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:15 pm, Send_Me said:

    Seeing how so many utterly incompetent fools are getting elected/reelected, I’m reminded of this conversation from “The Matrix” (Red Dawn comes to mind as well, but anyway):
    Tank: So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
    Neo: Guns. Lots of guns.

54. #55
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm, William Amos said:

    The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves

55. #56
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    Murtha is back in because the people wanted their pork. He calling them names means nothing when compared to money in their pockets. And he has the track record to prove it. As right a Russell is, the voters voted with their wallets.

56. #57
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, Send_Me said:

    Speaking of guns: does anyone else hear celebratory gunfire where they live? (No, I’m not kidding.)

57. #58
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:30 pm, greenfairie said:

    Well, can’t cure stupidity. They’ll need all the pork they can get now that Obama will bankrupt that region.

58. #59
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:33 pm, palani said:

    Of course Murtha was right about his constituents’ bigotry; after all, that’s why they’re democrats.

59. #60
    On November 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pm, William Amos said:

    Russell 2010 when things will be going the GOPs way

60. #61
    On November 5th, 2008 at 12:06 am, love2rumba said:

    No Send_me I do not hear gunfire where I live (Marysville, Wa. 35 miles north of Seattle,WA), but then Marysville isn’t as rabidly liberal like Seattle yet…for now it is a little oasis that is slowly disappearing.

61. #63
    On November 5th, 2008 at 1:20 am, ThunderHawkk said:

    I can’t believe it. What are the voters thinking??

62. #64
    On November 5th, 2008 at 1:35 am, AlohaGuy said:

    Uh-huh, and when coal goes belly up, you Penns asked for it…

63. #65
    On November 5th, 2008 at 6:21 am, hogster said:

    You can understand why a nation would elect a man with so little experience and questionable associations when they also elect a man like John Murtha who has total contempt for them and our military.
    Did they want change so bad that they were willing to sell their souls for it?
    Then they deserve what ever they get.
    M

64. #66
    On November 5th, 2008 at 7:01 am, flaming_o said:

    It seems more and more we’ve seen candidates exhibiting total self-interest while their constituents exhibit a total lack of self-interest. If that’s not a recipe for disaster (remember the story about the scorpion and the frog? “What did you expect? After all, I am a scorpion.”), I don’t know what does.

    “Laissez-faire” used to mean “keep government out of my way”. Now it seems to mean “I’ll keep out of government’s way”. I don’t get it.

    For us, the battle begins today.

65. #67
    On November 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am, tre said:

    On November 5th, 2008 at 1:35 am, AlohaGuy said:
    Uh-huh, and when coal goes belly up, you Penns asked for it…

    I agree AlohaGuy. They made their bed, now go lie in it.

66. #68
    On November 5th, 2008 at 8:58 am, AmericanPatriot said:

    My district borders Murtha’s and I go in to his district to go to work.

    It just occurred to me that I can’t remember seeing any Russell signs.
    Murtha has brought a lot of pork but nothing to show for it in terms of jobs.
    My county (Armstrong) is split but Murtha has the lion’s share.

    We have no growth and the last real manufacturer, Eljer Plumbingware, just shut down.
    Nothing to keep young people here.The 2 towns in the center, Kittanning and Ford City, are old folks, public housing, and welfare and drugs.

    Although we’re at the bottom of the barrel, the rest of Murtha’s district is the same. For all the $ millions he has brought to Johnstown, there’s nothing there either.

    At least here, there was no Russell campaign. His handlers did nothing.

    The Republican party has earned it’s name “the Stupid Party”

    There are no results to show for

67. #69
    On November 5th, 2008 at 9:56 am, corona said:

    I have no doubt that Russell, like McCain, served his country with courage, honor, and conviction. Those are three qualities which don’t mean squat in a political campaign.

    The people of District 12 have spoken loudly and clearly.
    Stupid is as stupid does.

68. #70
    On November 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am, AmericanPatriot said:

    Just looked at the final results.
    Cambria County, which is home to Johnstown, gave Murtha 20,000 of his 40,000 margin

69. #71
    On November 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm, Solo said:

    Doesn’t surprise me a bit. My in-laws live in Cambria County, they love Murtha and can’t stand Republicans. Too bad because they’re fairly conservative folks.

70. #72
    On November 20th, 2008 at 10:53 am, wv2sc said:

    The results here imply, that not only are there at least 107K people in PA that are racists and/or rednecks, but idiots too.