*Official Election 2005 Results Thread*

[Gabu]

Kilgore has this one in the bag. It's over!

Are you being sarcastic or serious?  Ive been out of the loop all day so I have no idea whats going on with turnout and sh**t.

Scoonie's acting "strange," to say the least. Just ignore him.

Scoonie decided at some point that he would do his best to emulate a Republican partisan hack.  I don't quite know why.

[Gabu]

This is another example of SUSA going seriously wacky.

Kaine is HIGHLY unlikely to get more that 48% of the vote, and Kilgore is HIGHLY unlikely to get less than 45% of the vote.

Potts is likely to get between 2% to 5% of the vote.

Hmmm...

89% precincts reporting

  T M Kaine     Democratic    882,671    51.33%
  J W Kilgore     Republican    798,104    46.41%

Interestingly enough, that last SUSA poll seemed to be almost dead on for how much Kaine is looking to get.

[Gabu]

I can't wait for the conservatives to spin this one.

Democrats keep Democratic Gubernatorial offices. Spin or fact? 

Phil,

You are right, of course. However, let the Leftists have their moment of glory tonight. If they want to get this excited about RETAINING two Governorships, then it gives you a pretty good idea just how bad off they have been in recent years. So let the Dems and their fellatio partners in the Mainstream Media have their day in the sun, and let's put our focus back on keeping the nation strong and vital.

A Democrat is looking to win with a majority of the vote in Virginia, in which, originally, Kilgore was by far and away the favorite, and which is a state that is not exactly known for its Democratic streak.

If a Republican won in the heart of New England, would you not consider this a very good thing?

[Gabu]

If a Republican won in the heart of New England, would you not consider this a very good thing?

When the GOP retained the RI Governor spot, I wasn't going crazy.

I don't see anyone "going crazy".  There are a lot of Democrats who are happy to see these results, for sure, but I don't see anything abnormal in taking pleasure in a victory for one's own team.  Are we supposed to be going "ho hum, Kaine won, big deal"?

[Gabu]

A Republican DID win in New York, which is far more Democratic than Virginia is Republican. Also, Virginia was held by a very effective and very popular Democratic Governor, who was pretty much given the free hand to appoint his successor. This victory in Virginia is more about the sound government of the Warner Administration than it is a repudiation of George Bush as Dems are trying to spin.

Yeah, but everyone already knew that Bloomburg was going to win.  To my knowledge, he had no serious opposition.

Kaine, on the other hand, is somewhat of an underdog, since, as I said, Kilgore was by far the favorite to win early on in the race.

[Gabu]

Um, could someone point me to results for these races. I don't feel like paging through what looks like a 28 page bitchfest.

Virginia

Precincts Reporting: 2284 of 2426 (94.15%)
Registered Voters: 4,451,724   Total Voting: 1,827,425   Voter Turnout: 41.05 %

  T M Kaine     Democratic    942,020    51.55%
  J W Kilgore     Republican    843,897    46.18%
  H R Potts Jr     Independent    39,921    2.18%
  Write Ins          1,587    0.09%

New Jersey

3,680 of 6,310 Precincts Reporting
      
Jon Corzine  Dem  657,887  54.07%
Doug Forrester  Rep  521,655  42.87%

I'm too lazy to post the others.

[Gabu]

Not only did we refrain from celebration of our MA and RI Gubernatorial victories, we didn't even mention it.

But the big difference is that, up until, like, a week or so ago, the race had been completely neck-and-neck with a slight Kilgore edge.  Having Kaine prevail in the end is at least somewhat of a victory for the Democratic Party.

I really don't see what the big deal is with being happy over this victory in the face of uncertainty.

[Gabu]

I really don't see what the big deal is with being happy over this victory in the face of uncertainty.

It's not just being happy. Just wait until the blogs start going crazy, saying that this will completely destroy the GOP in 2006.

Okay... but we aren't "the blogs", so I'm not sure what your point exactly is or what you want us to do.

[Gabu]

The fact remains that we have a Dem Governor in NJ and a Dem Governor in VA, just like we did before.  Wake me up when something actually changes hands.

If you don't give two hoots about these races, why do you have banners for each of them in your signature?

[Gabu]

Having Kaine prevail in the end is at least somewhat of a victory for the Democratic Party.

Ya'll kept a seat in a close election where you had a wildly popular incumbent.  You want a cookie?

Oh, come off it, you know very well that we'd never hear the end of it from you about how well the GOP is doing if the percentages were reversed.

[Gabu]

Why did the status quo win every election in spite of overwhelming polling that says people think we're on the wrong track?

Intuitively, I feel it's for the same reason that polls say that way more people would prefer a Democratic Congress to a Republican one, and yet approval of almost every person in Congress is relatively good.

[Gabu]

AuH2O posted that the Democrats got whupped in the Virginia state legislature.  Am I missing something, or was he just incorrect?

He said that, but then he corrected himself when he realized that the Democrats were actually up one seat.

[Gabu]

Where would this topic have been without the VA Attorney-General race?