UPDATE: This should help simplify things. (1) CNN Elections Projections tells you who’s been declared a winner. (2) And TPMCafe’s Election Central Scoreboard has a tally of all the races at the top, which should be updated to give us the new totals as races are called.
MSNBC just got a whole lot better: Keith Olbermann is now anchoring the coming results! Please share whatever results you hear, and where you’ve heard them! Opinion Journal has a breakdown, by time, of when we can expect to hear the first results (G = governor’s race and S = senator’s race). They recommend we check Real Clear Politics or the crawls across the bottoms of the screens of cable news shows. I recommend TPMCafe’s Election Central Scoreboard. SEE ALSO: CNN Elections Projections. All times ET:
6 p.m.
Indiana S |
Kentucky |
Kentucky: Rep. Harold Rogers, a 13-term Republican, and Rep. Ben Chandler, two-term Democrat, easily won
Indiana: Lugar-S has won.
CNN Projects Indiana: Burton defeats Carr-D
Indiana 8th: Ellsworth: 70% Hostettler: 30% (12% in)
KY 8th: Yarmuth: 50.67% Northup: 48.16% (37.42% in)
CNN Projects Kentucky:
Chandler-D beats Ard
Rogers-R defeats Stepp
7 p.m.
Florida GS Georgia G |
New Hampshire G South Carolina G |
Vermont GS Virginia S |
Vermont S: Bernie Sanders has won.
CNN Projects Vermont:
Welch-D defeats Rainville
7:30 p.m.
North Carolina |
Ohio GS |
West Virginia S |
8:00 p.m.
Alabama G Connecticut GS Delaware S Illinois G Kansas G Kansas G |
Maine GS Maryland GS Massachusetts GS Michigan GS Mississippi S Missouri S |
New Jersey S North Dakota S Oklahoma G Pennsylvania GS Tennessee GS Texas GS |
ABC News: “Preliminary exit poll results indicate that nearly six in 10 voters today disapprove of the way President Bush is handling his job. … nearly six in 10 voters disapprove of the war … voters today are more apt to say the country’s seriously off on the wrong track than to say it’s going in the right direction … voters by more than a 10-point margin, are more apt to say they’re voting to show opposition to Bush rather than to show him support. More than a third are voting to show opposition to the president.”
Welcome back Susan! I’ve missed you.
Pardon my ignorance, but what are the “G” and “S” notations for?
Governor and Senator being elected today, maybe?
TY, Omir!
Here’s what Opinion Journal says:
The letters after state names indicate governor and senate races, with the incumbent party in the appropriate color (independents in black). For example, “California GS” indicates that the Golden State went for John Kerry in 2004 and has a governor’s race with a Republican incumbent and a Senate race with a Democratic incumbent.
Uhoh — I didn’t copy the letters by color! Jeeeeeeesh! Maybe I’ll be lazy and just erase those indicators!
Oh, duh. I guess that makes sense. I guess I don’t have to ask “Why isn’t there an H on that list,” too.
Thanks.
In the Opinion Journal list: “The letters after state names indicate governor and senate races, with the incumbent party in the appropriate color (independents in black)” But we can’t see the colors here …
But more importantly — Susan! Girl it is sure good to see you! I’ve missed you sooo much.
With a cherry on top. Great to see you here Susan. It’s like old home week with a whole bunch of folks I haven’t seen in ages.
You’re gonna get a lot of those posts…
Tweety doing his standard “balanced” panel discussion now…might be a good time for me to run out and get something for dinner…
Same here – welcome back π
I’m going to go heat a big pot of “planned-over” chili now; Dr. Mrs. K.P. is on the way home after another day of saving our four-legged friends, it’s rainy here and perfect weather for chili.
What is the weather doing on your side of the state? We have had a drizzle most of the day. Not too cool either. Has everyone been out to the polls there? Ours are slow here.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Rainy and cool. Turnout about like a presidential year. Electronic voting machine problems in Farragut, the rich “R” end of town, LOL. I expect after this election republicans will decide those things are a problem, too!
Wow, Susan! Better than 6 more episodes of Deadwood! Good news and especiallyy good from you!
THANKS ALL!
If you have a spare set of eyes, please help me check the crawls … I’m having trouble taking glasses on/off, reading the Web sites, and then glancing over at the teevee!
Nice to see you, Susan!
We, in Europe, are as excited as you are…
See you in the morning… to celebrate!
Hey, it’s already Wednesday over there in Europe, right?
So tell us who won!! π
But my answer sent on Wednesday will reach you on Tuesday…
Darn those pesky time paradoxes!!
am I dreaming? Well, if Susan is back then I know the Dems will win big tonight. This IS a great day for sure. Man I have a nervous stomach though.
I still have first dibs on Keith though…lol!
Yeah. The end of Rethug rule and the return of Susan Hu in the same night. Awesome.
Susan! <jumps up and down>
So happy you’re with us tonight! So happy I’ve come out of hiding.
Hi Susan, I am haaaapy to see you back again and the perfect day for it too. Fingers crossed for a good outcome. 1/2 to go for the first results.
Now — no matter how the votes turn out — today is a great day! <big hug & a smacky kiss on the cheek>
Ohhhhhhh … thanks so much, all! We’ll have some fun tonight.
So, how best do we begin to blog the results? Any great ideas? I could use some!
That’s a really good question. My first thought was to split the results up geographically, but let’s face it, everyone is interested in all the races (unless I’m way mistaken). So maybe it should just be a rolling open thread kinda thing and we start a new one every 100 posts or so?
COOl, Omir. I’m going to post the results below the states’ names.
Then when we get close to 8PM closing, I’m going to move it to a new threda, I think.
Ding! We have a winner.
EXCEPT!
There are too many results coming in, and from too many different sources.
I don’t think I can keep up with every House race.
How about we track the House races by # picked up by the Democrats, and focus on the Senate numbers?
Well, maybe some of us could be delegated to help you keep track of the House races. A lot of them will be “Pettifogger (D) declared winner in WA-22” or something like that soon enough.
I’m willing to go with whatever you can keep up with, though. This is going to be stressful enough tonight without having to go crazy over all the races out there. And frankly what we’re mostly interested in is how many seats net the Dems are going to pick up.
I don’t think we can realistically do it.
Now, the CNN Projected Winners page looks like it may be a help simply to see who’s been declared a winner:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/called/
As for how those results change the # of Dems in the House and Senate, Kos or TPM should have those up to date? Or can you or someone else here?
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I’m looking for and someone else is doing the work, so even better. π
I’m at work right now (although you would never know it from my posting history over the last hour) and then I’ll be on a bus for an hour and a half, so I won’t be much use between about 9 and 10:30 ET. However after that I will try to be around as much as possible to help out where needed.
Although I have to ask, how in the name of FSM’s pet turtle can they predict Strickland to win in Ohio with 0% of the vote in? Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be happy to see Blackwell consigned to the heap of former office-holding sleazes, I’m just curious about their methodology.
Oh Happy Day! You have been so bloody missed!!!
One of the nice things about being on the left coast is we have a great advantage in the time difference. Polls will be closing shortly back east and I’m still at work.
Of course, as I left work in 2004, it was clear that Kerry had the lead.
At any rate, it’s great to see you.
KY-03
· Yarmouth up 51-48 with 15% reporting
I just get back from voting, and what do I see? Susan is back!
God damn, if this night gets any better from here on out my head might explode!
ditto that remark!!!!! I feel like you do…I am so happy tonight to just have Susan back with us talking about the most important topic of the day. Loved your diary BTW
OMG!!!!! boy howdy, SUSAN!!!!!!! I am sooooo very pleased to see you here. It will surely be a great night with you here. hugs
Welcome SusanHu! Is this kind of like when they bring in the anchor onto the cable show to announce for big elections. A cool surprise.
There’s our first surprise of the night. π
I really felt he had it made in the shade. He is well likes there in VT. I like him lots too. What every state elects ultimatly effects us all.
Yeah, I was just being silly. There was no doubt whatever he was going to take that seat.
That is ok Omir. I am just glad to have in with us. He will be a great asset to have on our side….and in the senate too!!!
Expected but still good news.
Dems filed suit to keep polls open til 9:00 instead of 7:30 due to early problems.
problems = long lines and workers not showing up on time.
Heavily democratic, heavily African American suburbs.
I think I figured out what is wrong with computer at home. PLEASE, someone help. I installed IE7 two days ago and everything has been wacky since. Someone please tell me how to uninstall. I have done this before but not enough to remember. It has totally messed up my comments area of Booman so I cannot see the whole comment and I would like to hang out with you guys when I get home in about fifteen minutes. Anyone?
Download Mozilla Firefox!!!
The comments will be normal.
Right Aligned for your convenience.:)
It happened to me also!
I did that but everything is on IE7 right now. I want to get rid of IE7 it is screwing everything up so badly. Thanks Salunga….didn’t mean to sound ungrateful. I am getting ready to leave work and really wanted this resolved for when I go home. you and CabinGirl said the same thing.
What kind of everything? When you first fire up Firefox it should ask you if you want to import all of your bookmarks and settings. You of course would say “yes.”
See I told you I am a techno dummy. Will fire up when I get home and see if that works. Thanks you guys. Later!
It will import your bookmarks.
Its your fastest fix.
Go to your Control Panel.
Open up “Add/Remove Programs.”
Find “IE7” and click “Remove” to uninstall that sucker.
Then go get a copy of Firefox.
Add/Remove Programs is easily visible under the Classic view. Under the new XP-type view where everything is grouped by function, I don’t know which group it’s in — probably something having to do with computer maintenance.
WARNING: I haven’t tested this out and haven’t had to remove IE7 since I tried a beta about six months ago and decided to ditch it then and there, but this should work.
That’s it!! I just couldn’t remember where to go and I kept trying properties. Ugh. Time to take a class. Thanks again. Home I go!
Ok! Thanks to Salunga and Omir I can read my comments again. I am going to watch MSNBC for awhile and will check in with you all later. Here’s hoping folks!
For those not familiar with the races, could you tag the names with (D) and (R)? Also, is there an easy way to show which candidate is the incumbent? Might help us keep track of the seat count.
I went and looked it up and Yarmuth and Ellsworth are both Dems, but I don’t know whether they’re incumbents or pickups.
(Oh, and if this is too much trouble, don’t worry about it.)
Susaaaaannnn!!!! Really nice to see you here. π I have missed you so much.
welcome back Sunsanhu. Issed you
Add Peter Welch (D).Vermont US House Ap called it 7:05 PM Bernie Sanders holds joint celebration with Dems at Wyndham Hotel joint campaign last 10 months. High turn out.
SUSANHU!!!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!! Its going to be a good night!
MSNBC has called OH-GOV for Strictland (sp?)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ted Strickland (D), and if this projection is right then he’s deafeating Ken Blackwell — yeah, that Ken Blackwell. π
Also in Ohio, CNN is projecting a YES on Issue 2, which raises the minimum wage.
We need to sweep the Ohio state positions to get all those corrupt buggers out, Out, OUT and avoid another 2004 thumb-on-the-scales debacle.
MSNBC calling it this early for Strickland is a hopeful sign.
So nice to see you writing here!!! I’ve got a big smile on my face for the first time today!
(((HUGS)))
Well, now. It’s after 7PM. It’s on, y’all.
Here are some UNOFFICIAL EXIT POLL NUMBERS via my pal Norma:
GET YOUR SENATE EXIT POLL NUMBERS HERE… From a Democratic Senate staffer who’s seen them:
Dem leads:
VA: 52-47
RI: 53-46
PA: 57-42
OH: 57-43
NJ: 52-45
MT: 53-46
MO: 50-48
MD: 53-46
GOPer leads:
TN: 51-48
AZ: 50-46
Grain. Salt. etc.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/showdown06/
WHOA, that would be super cool if we could get numbers like that. We wouldn’t need to kiss Lieberman’s . . . uh, pinky ring or anything.
I’m not doing the Snoopy dance just yet, but I may have to find a set of size 7 1/2 extra wide Capezios.
More nice news….
MSNBC has called Florida for Nelson….bye bye Harris!
Webb up with 25%
Hi Susan! I was so excited to hear you were going to be here tonight!
In a few minutes, I’m posting the second group of results by poll closing time + states.
Isn’t it sad that Katherine Harris lost ? π
Hey Susan — great to see you here!
TN-SEN Ford: 54% Corker: 45% n/a n/a 0% 08:14 pm EST
boy will y ou look at this one!!!!!
taken from TPM
This one looks big. They’re making out Indiana and Kentucky to be two big bellwether states, and Ellsworth just flipped this seat with (at the moment) a 24% advantage over Hostettler.
Going to get while the gettin’s good and head home.
See you all in about 1 1/2-2 hours
travel safely…see ya
Ohio is looking so good. I just hope Dr. Vic wins.
MSNBC just called Ohio for Brown!
The cheering in my house frightened the dogs.
We’re hearing the shouts of joy coming up I-75 from Toledo!
I scared my housemate, too, she ran downstairs to check on me because I was hollering. π
Hey Indy, check the Plain Dealer archives for columns by Brown’s wife, Connie Schultz. You’ll like her! She’s been one of my favorite journalists for many years.
LOL! Tucker Carlson just said that what we’re seeing tonight is “clearly a wave”. He looked like he’d eaten a rotten egg.
CNN projects OH-Sen for Brown over DeWine, and projects that Menendez holds on to NJ-Sen over Kean.
Grabbed one seat, it appears…well, since I can’t drink booze with my current med, I’ll toast the results with chocolate milk…
First, I heard NPR declare Senator Man-on-Dog a loser, then I come here to find that Susan is back!!!!
Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!
NPR just called for Leiberman.
Boooooooooooooooooooo
oh ick, they’re talking about it on MSNBC. Ickkkkkkk
Quick, change the channel! Catalog something. Anything to avoid that …. dirtbag.
LOL! Can’t … look … away
Now if that just didn’t bring the biggest smile to my face! Susan is in the pond! Please stay around a while, like indefinitely…:)
NPR called KY-03 for Yarmouth
than winning the House and the Senate tonight?? Live blogging with Susanhu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back! Missed you π
Fox just called RI for Whitehouse.
Why am I watching Fox? Because they look like they’re swallowing glass, eating crow and it’s so sweet. So, so sweet!
Hey ya’ll, I am off to shower and to bed. Will check in tomorrow with you. Have a great night. Oh, Susan, it is so great to have you back…it really warmed my heart to see ya here tonight. hugs….
watch new hampshire. from unionleader.com:
9:25 p.m.: The GOP is in grave danger of losing both the state’s congressional seats. While UnionLeader.com is not calling either race at this time, Paul Hodes is in a very strong position against U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley in the 2nd District. Insurgent Carol Shea-Porter has taken Exeter by a thousand votes, lost GOP stronghold Londonderry by fewer than 700 and won Epping, putting her in position for a historic upset over U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley.
What a special night to have you here! Thanks, susan.
Isn’t this a sweet surprise? :o)