NATIONAL GOVERNOR/OTHER RESULTS THREAD (LATE RESULTS/POSTMORTEM)

[Nichlemn]

If Cutler wins, it's probably a good thing for Republicans, because it makes it less likely that Snowe/Collins will get teabagged to death (possibly by LePage himself).

Anyone going down into the weeds for state legislative races, particularly for NY State Senate?

[Nichlemn]

Why didn't Dillard ask for a recount back then? Much larger margins have swung.

[Nichlemn]

I guess, even if Brady loses, he still helped elect Kirk.

[Nichlemn]

Democrats were wiped out in NH, going from 14-10 to a 5-19 deficit in the Senate,and probably a veto proof margin in the house too. The GOP is already talking about repealing Gay Marriage.

I can understand why libertarians can vote for someone like Charlie Baker, but why any self-respecting libertarian would vote for the NH GOP without being very careful about the candidate under the current conditions is quite beyond me.

lol, that's 79% of the seats. I don't believe that any single chamber in the country is currently as Republican as that (though there probably is now).

[Nichlemn]

The Democrats' demise in Arkansas appears to be real. Republicans are leading in the three statewide offices they contested (Lt. Gov., SOS, and Land Commissioner), and the Republicans are winning 6 Dem Senate seats and 15 Dem House seats.

Dems there are exceptionally fortunate that the GOP didn't even bother to contest the rest.

I guess they thought the state Democratic party was still strong. Still, this seems highly unusual. How many other times throughout US history have uncontested candidates been probable underdogs to win had they faced major party opposition?

[Nichlemn]

When has a governor as unpopular as Quinn ever won re-election?

Pretty funny that IL has a Republican congressional majority now. Unfortunately for them, they appear very likely to face Democratic control over redistricting. Now, maybe they wouldn't have won in the first place without Brady on the ballot, but still - redistricting is for a decade, Congress is for only 2 years.

[Nichlemn]

Holy Christ. The Democrats currently have three seats in the New Hampshire Senate. There are maybe three or four more that they might win. Lynch is lucky as hell that he got re-elected.

This looks a lot like what happened in 2002 in NH, albeit even worse. I think they went down to 5 that year. NH voters like to inflict armageddon on the party in power at regular intervals, it seems.

I think it's mostly because NH's partisan leanings are fairly consistent through the state. Just look at the counties, they all vote pretty similarly. Obama won them all with a 10 point victory, I think Lynch won all but one with a 5 point victory. Thus, lots of seats are likely to swing with relatively small popular vote changes.