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

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Razor thin margin in KY-06 thus far, though it doesn't mean much for another half hour.

Last poll (10/19) had Chandler (D) up 4, for context.

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CNN calls VT for Leahy.

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Rubio near 70% in first returns from Nassau County.

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Speculation is that Florida is the ground zero of GOP wave.

Rubio devastating everybody in Florida. Seriously how was this ever gonna be competitive?

A bit too soon - Nassau is part of FL-04, which is R+17.

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There are evidently 2 Bass/Hodes voters.  I guess they liked both their former congressmen.

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Hart County reports from Georgia - massive lead for Isakson.

(Hart is in GA-10, R+15)

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Rubio is over 60% in Miami-Dade (with 0.1% in . . .)

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So King is busy digging up ballots as we speak?

If Rossi said something about his supporters needing second amendment remedies, I'd be inclined to be sympathetic, given his history . . .

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TBH I'm not sure why C4G initially decided to enter Nevada - Lowden should have earned a passing grade on all the issues they care about and even then Tarkanian was the most obvious "more conservative" candidate.

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California just doesn't have enough blue collar Catholic Anglos. They were the group that swung, and swung hard, against the Dems this year. Joe Biden was chatting about that. As someone noted in a post, the candidate the Dems fear most is Christie.

Which is why Republicans were swept into unprecedented victories here in Massachusetts.

(Granted, that did happen in the Senate special, but certainly not in the general).

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California just doesn't have enough blue collar Catholic Anglos. They were the group that swung, and swung hard, against the Dems this year. Joe Biden was chatting about that. As someone noted in a post, the candidate the Dems fear most is Christie.

Which is why Republicans were swept into unprecedented victories here in Massachusetts.

(Granted, that did happen in the Senate special, but certainly not in the general).

Aren't most Catholics in MA Irish? Though I don't know where there are that many blue-collar Catholic Anglos. Probably more of a swing among Catholics of German descent in the midwest.

For better or worse, we here in CA at least, use the term "Anglo" to refer to those who are not Hispanic, Asian or black. And that is how I use the term - and for no other purpose.  I guess part of it is to use the term "white," in the context of excluding Hispanics, just rubs me the wrong way. Indeed, I find it almost offensive for some reason. Thus I embraced the term.

Well, I didn't comment before, but most white Catholics (i.e. Italians and especially the Irish) would be far more offended by your calling them "Anglo" than Hispanics would by your calling non-Hispanic Caucasians "white."

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That's not a terribly implausible scenario, as there are about 5 black people in Vermont.