2014 US Congressional Election Results

[IceSpear]

You must be logged in to read this quote.

THE DEMOCRATIC WAVE IS BUILDING

But I thought it would be 2010 redux!

[IceSpear]

Democrat Tom Spangler is leading Larry Bucshon in IN-8 54-44, with less than 1% in. Democratic House wave building?

IIRC Bucshon was also losing early in 2012, so probably not.

[IceSpear]

Brett Hume on Fox News says Gillespie in VA has an internal poll that came out this morning showing him up 1% against Warner in VA. Let the fun begin!

I have a bridge to sell you if you believe that.

[IceSpear]

Apparently Crist is doing very well in Florida so far.

[IceSpear]

Exit poll shows:

SC

Hutto 42
Graham 51
Ravenel 5

Dickerson 40
Scott 59


CNN projects Capito wins! R+1

If the Graham race does end up that close, Dems were dumb for not contesting it. Dems can get to 45% easily in SC, boost Ravenel a bit through SuperPACS, and maybe...?

[IceSpear]

Exit poll shows:

SC

Hutto 42
Graham 51
Ravenel 5

Dickerson 40
Scott 59


CNN projects Capito wins! R+1

If the Graham race does end up that close, Dems were dumb for not contesting it. Dems can get to 45% easily in SC, boost Ravenel a bit through SuperPACS, and maybe...?

It's the Deep South. Blacks vote Dem. Whites vote Rep. Both are extremely inelastic.

Yes, that's why I said to use shady SuperPACs to boost Ravenel. He was siphoning Tea Partiers off of Graham, I doubt any Democrats were voting for him.

[IceSpear]

Exit poll shows:

SC

Hutto 42
Graham 51
Ravenel 5

Dickerson 40
Scott 59


CNN projects Capito wins! R+1

If the Graham race does end up that close, Dems were dumb for not contesting it. Dems can get to 45% easily in SC, boost Ravenel a bit through SuperPACS, and maybe...?

Dems can get to 45% easily in South Carolina, but 46%? 47%? 50%? Impossible.

I didn't say Dems could get above 45%. But if you boosted Ravenel enough to siphon off more Tea Partiers from Graham (he got 5% just on his own, apparently) 45% could have been enough to win.

[IceSpear]

If these numbers are representative of the county as a whole ...



It looks like the Dems are going to have a very, very long night.

The most Republican parts of VA report first. You'd think people would learn this by now.

[IceSpear]

Virginia Foxx losing. Less than 1% in, of course

If that is representative of the country as a whole, it's gonna be a long night for Republicans...

LOL

[IceSpear]

What's going on with IN-7?

Yeah, what in god's name? The third party candidate is leading, and the Republican has only 4% of the vote.

[IceSpear]

Dems currently winning WV-02 but trailing in WV-03, lol.

[IceSpear]

Tom Cotton has won. Wow

Wow?

[IceSpear]

Looks like IN-7 was a typo the entire time. Carson now narrowly leads the Republican.

[IceSpear]

MSNBC calls NH for Shaheen.

YES! BYE CARPETBAGGER! OFF TO CONNECTICUT WITH YOU!!!!!!

Sorry, got a bit too excited.

[IceSpear]

Damn, VA is gonna be razor thin. This is gonna be closer than VA-Gov 2013. Truly unbelievable.

[IceSpear]

BUT KEN BUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could we start a meme in 2016 that we have to unskew Virginia polls by ~5-10 points for the Republican? It would make just as much sense as the nonsense we have been hearing all year about Colorado.

If it happens a couple more times? Yeah, sure.

[IceSpear]

GA-12 called for Rick Allen

This hurts more than anything.

He should've run for Sen or Gov this cycle. He still can though.

[IceSpear]

With 99% in, Grimes is losing by an Obama 2008 margin in Kentucky. Insane. There vanishes any fantasy of Hillary winning the state (and no, I wasn't one of them).

[IceSpear]

On the bright side, looks like we've averted complete disaster in Virginia. Warner currently up 13,000 votes with >99% in.

Imagine if someone posted Warner surviving as a "bright side" yesterday.

[IceSpear]

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

That's perfect, actually.

LOL, I'm stealing this.

[IceSpear]

Scott Brown called Shaheen to concede. Thank you based God.

Thank god they nominated a carpetbagger. Anyone else, we'd be looking at one less Senate seat now. Same for Gillespie. Good lord.

[IceSpear]

Democratic WTF bright spot: with 88% reporting, Doug Owens is leading Mia Love in UT-4...by a margin of 52-45.

EDIT: In uncalled Eastern news, Rice is out to her first lead over Blakeman of the night, 51-49, with 81% reporting. With 76% reporting, Dan Bongino is leading John Delaney 52-46 -- I think this one will be called soon.

This election has a lot of extremely strange results on both sides, unfortunately, much more favorable ones on the GOP side.

[IceSpear]

On the bright side, looks like we've averted complete disaster in Virginia. Warner currently up 13,000 votes with >99% in.

Imagine if someone posted Warner surviving as a "bright side" yesterday.

Technically, Gillespie can ask for a recount in VA, says the Independent from New York who said that the only way Warner was going to lose if he murdered someone and they found his prints on the murder weapon.

Impressive almost win for Gillespie.

He can if he wants, but he won't be making up that many votes in a recount no matter what.

[IceSpear]

On the bright side, looks like we've averted complete disaster in Virginia. Warner currently up 13,000 votes with >99% in.

Imagine if someone posted Warner surviving as a "bright side" yesterday.

Technically, Gillespie can ask for a recount in VA, says the Independent from New York who said that the only way Warner was going to lose if he murdered someone and they found his prints on the murder weapon.

Impressive almost win for Gillespie.

He can if he wants, but he won't be making up that many votes in a recount no matter what.

You (and other Democrats) got cocky before this election, and look what happened.  Don't count Ed Gillespie out just yet.  

Uh, is this a joke? It's completely implausible to make up 13,000 votes in a recount, unless there's a bunch of uncounted ballots yet to be discovered. But since this is Virginia and not Illinois or Wisconsin, the chances of that seem pretty slim. It's hard enough to make up 1,000 votes in a recount, much less 13x that.

[IceSpear]

Considering the size of the wave, Gary Peters must really be an amazing retail politician. He's currently running ahead of Franken and Durbin (!) in the margins.

Franken and Durbin didn't have Terri Lynn Land as their opponent.