A night to remember: Liveblogging the 2010 midterm results; Malkin’s hot list; waiting for the West; Reid hangs on, Buck ahead in CO; Cali races called too early?; Update: CO vote counting errors?!; Fiorina not conceding; Joe Miller trails in AK; WA Senate dead heat
Scroll for updates…make sure to scroll all the way down, last update 3:39am Eastern…
Are you ready to rumble? Doug Powers and I are on duty tonight — and we’ll both be chomping on popcorn and sipping our Slurpees (or in my case, Sonic cherry limeades…the next best thing) as the results of the 2010 midterm elections roll in.
Some of the hot, hot races that I’ll be keeping close watch on for you:
AZ-07: GOP rocket scientist and Tea Party upstart Ruth McClung, taking on entrenched, open-borders incumbent Raul Grijalva. *Update 3:33am – McClung and Grijalva have been locked in tight race all night; McClung trailing by the slimmest of margins…roughly 4,000 votes separates them
MA-04: GOP upstart Sean Bielat, on the verge of unseating three-decade corruptocrat Democrat Barney Frank. *Update: Massachussetts, what were you thinking? FNC projects Frank will keep his seat. Thank you, Sean, for standing up and fighting the good fight.
N.C.-07 and N.C.-02: GOP newcomers Ilario Pantano and Renee Elmers taking on Democrat incumbents Rep. Mike McIntyre and Rep. Bob Etheridge. *Update: RENEE ELLMERS WINS, defeats Bob “Chokehold” Etheridge.* Congrats! Pantano concedes to six-termer McIntyre — a heroic, amazing challenge from Pantano. Thank you, 2LT Pantano, for your service and patriotism.
CO governor’s race: Surging independent candidate Tom Tancredo taking on CO George Soros mini-me John Hickenlooper.
CO Senate: GOP/Tea Party candidate Ken Buck, ready to unseat appointed Obama/Salazar crony and cut-and-runner Sen. Michael Bennet.
Kansas Secretary of State: GOP candidate/anti-ACORN corruption activist/immigration enforcement lawyer Kris Kobach, combating the Soros-ization of state election bureaucracies.
Washington Senate: GOP challenger Dino Rossi is in a nailbiter with entrenched Democrat Patty Murray. Might not know the results for a few days, given the state’s past election counting woes.
Wisconsin Senate: GOP challenger Ron Johnson looking to upset four-term Democrat incumbent Russ Feingold.
Florida Senate: Tea Party/GOP candidate Marco Rubio, attracting international attention for his meteoric campaign bid.
Obamacare ballot measures: Citizens get to vote on the federal health care mandate in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
And, of course, the GOP ladies driving the establishments left and right mad: Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.
As of 6:15pm, exit polls are stating the obvious — it’s the jobs, stupid.
The Drudge siren and red font highlight more exit results:
EXIT POLLS:
Arkansas: Boozman (R) defeats Lincoln (D)
Ohio: Portman (R) defeats Fisher (D)
North Dakota: Hoeven (R) defeats Potter (D)
Wisconsin: Johnson (R) defeats Feingold (D)
Update 7:00pm Eastern – Congrats to GOP Senate winners Coats (Ind.), Paul (Ky), and DeMint (SC).
As expected, GOP candidate Rob Portman takes OH Senate seat.
Update 8:03pm Eastern – NH GOP Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte projected to win; Christine O’Donnell in Delaware projected to lose. FNC also projecting CT GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon will lose. Vietnam War fakers everywhere are celebrating AG Richard Blumenthal’s projected victory.
Update 8:12pm Eastern – Marco Rubio projected to win in Florida! If you haven’t seen the best campaign ad of the year, watch it (or watch it again):
Update 8:32pm Eastern Fox projecting Ark. Democrat Sen. Blanche Lincoln losing to GOP challenger John Boozman. Bye, bye, Blanche.
Update 8:41pm Eastern Bummer. WV’s GOP Senate candidate John Raese projected to lose to popular Democrat Gov. Joe Manchin — who won by running to the right, suing the EPA, and disavowing Obama.
Update 10:18pm Eastern (DP) Barney Frank has defeated Sean Bielat. Dangit.
Update 10:21pm Eastern (DP) Fox News reporting John Hickenlooper wins the Colorado governor’s race.
Update 10:26pm Eastern (DP) I’m doing a shot every time Geraldine Ferraro blames Dem losses on their “failure to properly communicate how awesome the health care bill is.” This can’t end well.
Update 10:35pm Eastern (DP) I’m hearing that Nikki Haley has won the SC governor’s race but haven’t yet seen or heard “official” confirmation. Sestak/Toomey in Pennsylvania still very close. Not looking good for Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, but no call made yet — still over half of the vote to be counted there.
Update 10:45pm Eastern (DP) MSNBC projecting Ron Johnson has defeated Russ Feingold for Wisconsin Senate. Apparently Feingold’s desperate suck-up to the Tea Party didn’t work.
Polls closing out west now…
Update 11:03pm Eastern (DP) CNN calls SC governor’s race for Nikki Haley.
Update 11:21pm Eastern (DP) Screen-grab of the night — Chris Matthews interviewed Rep. Michele Bachmann a little while ago, and somebody behind Bachmann posed a question to Matthews (Bachmann asked Chris the same question):
Update 11:40pm Eastern – Politico just called PA-Senate for grass-roots conservative Pat Toomey.
Allow me a brief moment to say: WOOOOOO-HOOOOO! And phew!
Update 11:21pm Eastern (DP) CNN projects Ma’am — er, I mean, Barbara Boxer — will retain her US Senate seat.
Update 11:21pm Eastern (DP) Jerry Brown wins California governor’s race… again. What’s the definition of insanity?
Also, Jan Brewer has been re-elected Arizona governor. Kasich wins in Ohio.
Update 12:13am Eastern GOP Nevada gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval defeats Dingy Harry’s son. One Reid defeated.
Update 12:33am Eastern (DP) CNN projects Republican Mark Kirk will pick up Barack Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois.
Also, Harry Reid is projected the winner in Nevada Senate race over Sharron Angle. Suffice to say, this evening provided Republicans with more than enough victories to give them great momentum, but just enough high-profile defeats to avoid getting cocky.
Update 12:49am Eastern Good news: Ken Buck is up in Colorado. 45% precincts reporting in CO: Buck 47.7, Bennet 46.9.
48% reporting
Buck (GOP) 48.6% (652,258)
Bennet (Dem) 46.2% (620,454)
Update 1:09am Eastern Lots of buzz on Twitter about Cali races. Did MSM call the races too early? Tammy Bruce reports that Fiorina is not conceding.
U.S. Senate – General
California – 5441 of 24845 Precincts Reporting – 22%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Boxer , Barbara (i) Dem 1,468,463 47%
Fiorina , Carly GOP 1,461,870 47%
Lightfoot , Gail Lib 56,486 2%
Noonan , Edward AIP 43,296 1%
Feinland , Marsha PFP 40,270 1%
Roberts , Duane Grn 36,321 1%
Update: 1:16am Eastern CO Senate race has swung back and forth…local media reporting a count error in Boulder County…Bennet now ahead by 2,000 votes.
Need Dramamine.
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Update: Carly Fiorina took the stage around 2:00am-ish and announced that it would be a “long night.” She is not conceding. “We are in a dead heat. For all those who called the race, maybe that wasn’t a smart thing to do.”
“Gonna be a long night. We’re gonna crunch data. We may not know for hours.”
Boxer crows about her victory, assails “special interests” (not including Big Labor, of course).
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Update 2:49am Eastern Alaska Senate returns so far…
U.S. Senate
Last update: 11/2 10:50 pm AKST
299 of 438 precincts reporting
Write-In Votes 66,810 39.33%
Joe Miller (R) 59,997 35.32%
Scott T. McAdams (D) 41,383 24.36%
Fredrick Haase (L) 879 0.52%
Tim Carter (NP) 555 0.33%
Ted Gianoutsos (NP) 263 0.15%
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Update 2:52am Eastern…As expected, the Washington Senate race is a virtual tie.
Patty Murray 722,396 50.49 %
Dino Rossi 708,391 49.51 %
3:08am Eastern Fun fact from, yes, the Associated Press:
Rs piled up their biggest House gains _ 58 by early Wednesday _ since they added 80 seats in 1938. 1994′s was “just” 54 seats.
Another late pick-up – GOP candidate Joe Heck defeats Democrat incumbent Dina Titus in Nevada.
Update 3:12am Eastern Sharron Angle just wrapped up her concession speech.
Update 3:40am Eastern Michael Sandoval at NRO Battle10 reports that Buck-Bennet race here in Colorado may not be finalized until next week or possibly next month.
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Not so. Overall, not great for Dems, but not Armageddon either. Quite a few bright spots, not the least of which was Angle’s defeat. So some crow, but with some wagyu beef amuse bouches in between course.
The same argument could be made about the global warming alarmist who claim the science is settled.
CA Senate Race, 22% precincts reporting, last updated 10:29pm PDT:
Carly Fiorina GOP 1,284,916 47.2%
Barbara Boxer Dem (I) 1,282,310 47.1%
You do seem a bit cranky and out of character, though. Gross generalizations about the right being anti-science? That’s unlike you.
Although, it’s what, nearly 2am by you now?
I agree – “Our American Cousin” was a great play, Mary Todd.
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No, but the votes from that land that “nobody wants to live on” can count more than the votes where stupid people live all crammed up on top of each other.
What’s so inane about a comment with respect to the physical size of the red area?
Why is it so trite? Are you actually claiming that there’s absolutely no interesting commentary that can be generated from such observations?
With Angle and O’Donnell already lost, if Buck and Miller also lose, it could turn out to be a very disappointing night for the Tea Party in the Senate. And it is not looking good for Miller.
Yeah, chap’s getting sloppy tonight.
CAGW fear mongering should be embarrassing him enough to shy away from such accusations of anti-science bias.
Well it’s late and it will be days before WA ST Senate race is decided (if not months and that’s not an exageration), so off to bed.
Not when it is used as a proxy for imagining some huge advantage of ACTUAL conservative support in the US, which is what it is always cited as.
I’ll stick with the vast majority of scientists, for now at least.
Point being that Thunderhawkk was trying to be cutesy while proving my exact argument. Saying the sky is blue is trite and, ultimately, incorrect. Something a child would “observe”. Am I going to point this out to a child? Nope. Am I going to point the equivalent out on a political board? Yup.
Hang in there, Carly.
Maybe the “experts” know that the precincts that have not been counted are all in the tank for Boxer, like L.A. and S.F. With the race this close, and if indeed those are the votes remaining to be counted, Boxer will pull ahead considerably in fairly short order.
Still, Hang in There, Carly!
Yeah! I mean, how could anyone even dare suggest there’s huge support for conservatives across the country, especially after tonight? It’s a puzzler, alright.
ThunderHawkk was trying claim you were being an argumentative jerk. You know, acting like a classic troll.
Are you quite sure you aren’t the one proving his point?
So it’s only trite when it’s used as a proxy for imaging some HUGE advantage of ACTUAL conservative support in the US?
I assume that you concede that it’s not trite when it’s not used as a proxy for imaging some HUGE advantage of ACTUAL conservative support in the US?
Yes, that’s exactly what I did. Sure, whatever you say, just PLEASE, please take your medication soon. You like medication – its from sigh-ence.
Ever notice how much silence sounds like science? At least, I wish you would notice.
Has anyone ever noticed that Democrats are elected, but Republicans seize control?
Republicans seize control of U.S. House, gain in Senate
Like biologists that wouldn’t understand the cutting edge of climate science even if they spent a full week studying it?
Or like former railroad engineers?
Or like any other scientist that’s clueless about climate science, but simply endorses CAGW simply because they think that most climate scientists believe in it? Why would such an endorsement impress you?
It’s not at all incorrect to say that the sky is blue.
Here on earth you’re right….but on Chap’s planet…
Just watched a brief report on the results on the BBC – yes, even the BEEB have noticed that something is happening! They reported that President Obama took a battering at the polls – I hope that’s true.
Sorry to see Harry Reid retained his seat in Nevada.
It looks like it’s been a good night for America.
Looks like the People’s Plantation of Hawaii has elected Hanabusa rather than Djou, and Abercrombie for Gov.
Too bad, they like being down on the farm I guess.
Please look the term “Cali” up in the urban dictionary, then decide if you wish to continue using it. The term may be mainstreamed now, but its roots are dubious and insulting to older citizens. However, if you are using it as a put-down to an out-of-control, illegal alien infested, drug addled state, then you have a point.