2014 US Congressional Election Results

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NH Senate Results (0% Reporting)

Scott Brown: 60% (3 votes)
Jeanne Shaheen 40% (2 votes)

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THE DEMOCRATIC WAVE IS BUILDING

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More Nate Silver tweets:

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National exit poll party ID (again, source: CNN TV):

Dem 37%
GOP 34%
Indies 29%

Ideology:

moderate 40%
conservative 36%
liberal 23%

Obama job approval
approve 44%
disapprove 54%

Seems a bit high if you ask me

It's basically the same as the RCP average.

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Congrats Phil!

And congrats to Torie, who I called a hack for predicting that Republicans could gain 20 seats. Looks like he was right and I was wrong.

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So uh, Pryor is currently losing 39-57. Looks like he got Blanched after all

It's pretty amazing how Pryor, Landrieu, Grimes, Tennant, Nunn are all posting Obama-esque numbers in these states. Very, very grim. To Appalachia, (D) = Obama now.

The Senate map is basically the presidential map from 2012. It's terrifying. We can't win the senate if we can only win blue states.

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Did anyone else notice Jim Himes won by only 51-49?!

Another race that was on nobody's radar screen.

Democrats look to have done a decent job gerrymandering Connecticut.

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Alaska won't start counting the 40k remaining ballots for another week.

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Udall has closed the margin a lot since last night. He may end up losing by around Hagan's margin. What could have been with a slightly better campaign...

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Owsley County's uninsured rate dropped from 26% to 13% in the last year because of Obamacare.

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Owsley County's uninsured rate dropped from 26% to 13% in the last year because of Obamacare.

Yes this is something that could maybe have been worked with, at least as a start (with promises of better to come maybe). I don't think this was the case though, was it? Didn't the Democratic nominee basically allow Mr Turtle to neutralise that point?

In any case the point is never to do something and expect people to be grateful. You need to use what you've done (or promise or whatever) to actively win people over (or keep them depending on the circumstances). I sometimes get the impression that a lot of Democrats these days regard that as uncouth.

Yes this is true. Grimes was too cowardly to run a positive campaign on how successful Obamacare had been.

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It is extremely frustrating how in all these close western US races, the final votes always seem to favor the Democrat.  Of course it is a given that provisional favor the D candidate; just the nature of the beast that is provisional voting.  But absentees is another phenomenon entirely.  The CA Democrats must have this process down to a much better game plan.

I think Democratic constituencies are just more likely to procrastinate (young people, poor people, etc.) and send in their ballots later, as opposed to Republican constituencies (old folks) who like to do things as early as possible.

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Jeez, not content with gerrymandering half the country, Republicans are now attacking independent commissions too! Greedy.

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Pretty impressive that Democrats will end up losing zero seats in California this year. Look like the state is truly impervious to Republican waves.

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AoSHQ called it. RIP.

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57-43 or 56-44 is respectable, I guess. She's actually doing a lot better than expected, considering it looks like turnout will have dropped by like 200,000 votes from November.

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Straw?

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guys do you think al is right

he definitely has a creepy smile

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Why would Republicans trash it? It probably helps them over all.