NATIONAL SENATE/HOUSE RESULTS THREAD (LATE RESULTS/POSTMORTEM)

[cinyc]

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Very colorful.  The AP tally of NY-04 is behind; Dem is up now.  Otherwise, everything pretty much falls in line.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Dems win in IA-01, 02, and 03.

[Brittain33]

Actually I was wrong, and Angle is losing Washoe County by a bit, with a lot of votes in. All these are early votes, and the polls said Angle would do much better with the today votes. We shall see, but Angle is in deep trouble.

But when you consider that the early votes were about evenly split in partisan affiliation ... ?

I mentioned this somewhere else hours ago, but it would be funny if the three earliest seats we all thought were goners (CT, DE, NV) were all held by quirks of fate while several other seats fell anyway.

[The Mikado]

Gene Taylor has been defeated.

Taylor's been an anachronism for decades.

[J. J.]

Toomey 51, Sestak 49.  There is still a third of Lancaster county outstanding. 

[Frodo]

The Republican Party looks to be consolidating a decades-long shift by the South to the GOP, and it seems like it will be culminating this decade.  Consequentially, a lot of those seats in the South that have just been lost Democrats are never going to get back...  

[Torie]

OK, they can call California for Brown and Boxer already, seeing as they're leading and the state always becomes more Democratic as the night goes on.

Absentees (and that is what the CA vote is at the moment) used to be more heavily GOP by a substantial margin, but in the past 10 years that has largely disappeared. But given the exit poll, and the absentee numbers (narrow Dem leads), unless there are big county discrepancies, the Pubbies in CA are done.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

Dewey defeats Truman in Nevada.

Polling had him down 49-45 consistently other than the PPP poll and he was able to pull it off.

On what basis do you say Reid has won?

Numbers I saw said Reid had leads in Clark and Washoe County(5%). Angle would have to rack up huge margins in the rural counties to have a chance to win at this point(or so says Ralston anyway, who I'm putting my trust in)

[Brittain33]

Dems win in IA-01, 02, and 03.

Turnout in liberal bastions in Iowa was through the roof this year per afternoon reports.

[bgwah]

Benton and Yakima counties may knock Murray down to +2 or so, but I don't see her falling below that.

[Brittain33]

Dewey defeats Truman in Nevada.

Polling had him down 49-45 consistently other than the PPP poll and he was able to pull it off.

On what basis do you say Reid has won?

Numbers I saw said Reid had leads in Clark and Washoe County(5%). Angle would have to rack up huge margins in the rural counties to have a chance to win at this point(or so says Ralston anyway, who I'm putting my trust in)

My judgment of Ralston over the past week was that he's blowing sunshine up our asses. That said, I want to go to bed and this and Bennet are the only races I still care about.

[King]

The Republican Party looks to be consolidating a decades-long shift by the South to the GOP, and it seems like it will be culminating this decade.  Consequentially, a lot of those seats in the South that have just been lost Democrats are never going to get back...  

No worries for the Dems, though.  Once the radicalism of having the GOP finally in control of the South sets in, the cleansing of the Northeast and West Coast will cancel it out.

[Sam Spade]

Solomon Ortiz is in real trouble.  He may hold on, but it'll be close.

[cinyc]

Toomey 51, Sestak 49.  There is still a third of Lancaster county outstanding. 

Which means it can only get better.  Time to call it.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Russ Carnahan is barely ahead.

Schrader looks to be heading to re-election in OR-05. Major SUSA fail.

[Frodo]

Bobby Bright up by 8......votes.

He now trails Martha Roby (R) by less than two hundred votes with nearly 90% of precincts reporting.  

Her lead has been extended to over 230 votes w/ 90% of precincts reporting.

Needless to say, there will be a recount here too I presume. 

[King]

Is this speech really happening?!?!!?

John Boehner is about to collapse from grief.

[Guderian]

Toomey pulled it off. 99% career ACU rating from Pennsylvania will be sweet.

[xavier110]

The Republicans would be ripping any Democrat who would blubber and weep like Boehner just did.

[Eraserhead]

He just showed weakness. That was embarrassing.

[Brittain33]

Obama and the Tea Party are going to beat this guy like a drum and he knows it.

The Republicans have not yet found a replacement for Tom Delay in the ass-kicking department.

[Vepres]

This really was not an endorsement of Republicans. I fear that Republicans will waste their chance to work with the President and Democrats, and do really positive things, by creating deadlock because they may over read their mandate.

I honestly think that both are equally likely, but clearly, if Republicans read too much into the election, they'll face the voters' wrath in two years.

[Frodo]

Did he actually weep tears of joy?  

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Who are the 'girly men' now?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We still need 16% from Lancaster... it looks good for Toomey.

[Guderian]

Boehner is apparently a frequent weeper. He cried when they kicked him from leadership in 1998.