*Official Election 2005 Results Thread*

[Ben.]

Kilgore - 49
Kaine   -  47
Potts    -  4

I'm assuming/hoping  that's a prediction.

[Ben.]

What's this?

Wolf Blitzer just predicted a Forrester win by 3%?

Wow!

Kaine winning in VA, and Forrester in NJ sits very well with me i should add

[Ben.]

LOL, be easy.  Still 2000+ precincts to go.

[Ben.]

The Attorney General race is close, too!

The Dems where meant to be winning that, our candidate is endorsed by the NRA after all , surprised at the closeness of Lt.Gov race... the Kilgore/Kaine face off close as a badger's wetsuit

[Ben.]

Jersey NJN has it 51-47 Forrester- No precint and number of votes- very, very early going.

Corzine is truly a slime, but I still find it hard to believe he could lose in Jersey...

Do you have a good link to Jersey results...?

Well, the guy he's running against is definitely even more of a slime.

Go ahead and keep telling yourself that.

In NJ I’d take a mediocre republican who seems to have the right idea against a machine politician, without any idea where to start cleaning up the state.

Along with Forrester, I hope (don’t expect, but still I hope) Arnie does well on his propositions all of which are fairly moderate and would do a lot to help the state end its decade long run as some basket case (!)    
 
Meanwhile the one race I really care about is here in VA, just hope Kaine pulls it off.

[Ben.]

Kilgore is going to win.

Why?

[Ben.]

Governor Tim Kaine

And my argument, that I’ve been making since the early part of the summer that Kaine would close the gap and gain a “second wind” during the final week or two is proved devastatingly accurate… smug is an understatement    

…still think Deeds will win AG race, he’s endorsed by the NRA and he’s a well liked candidate, if Kaine’s won I’d be surprised if Deeds didn’t. Kinda glad we Byrne got beat, not that there was any real prospect of her ever winning in the first place.

[Ben.]

Kaine has a good sized lead now. 51.31%-46.44% with 88.13% reporting. Deeds might still have a chance, he's down only 49.62%-50.30% now.

Where’s left to count?

[Ben.]

Deeds down by less than 11,000 votes with 83% reporting. Let's go Deeds!!

The mask slips

[Ben.]

Come on Deeds!

[Ben.]

Deeds and his type are trying to steal this thing. Thankfully they are falling flat on their faces.

Hardly, it's an automatic state recount... if there is one demanded by the Dems then it'll be nothing more than what the GOP did in the Washington Gov race last year.