I’m tired tonight. I think I’ll just put up an elections returns thread and discuss things in the comments.
Virginia: Board of Elections | Virginian-Pilot
New Jersey: Division of Elections
New York: State Board of Elections
Maine: Bureau of Elections | WMTW-TV
Some exit poll data.
Some media have called the Virginia race for the Pat Robertson dude.
What’s the over/under on when he’s caught with his pants down?
Jersey results.
For Maine, Bangor Daily News seems to have better-updated results than your links.
So far, so good in Maine on both gay marriage and medical marijuana.
One bright spot tonight. Democrats, regardless of office, are crushing in Pennsylvania.
164 of 169 precincts reporting.
Anthony Foxx (DEM)51.57%
John W. Lassiter (REP) 48.36%
Weird. They called the NYC mayor’s race for Bloomberg and the Democrat conceded, but they have now retracted the call for Bloomberg and the results so far are neck and neck,
Now that it is over, I’m willing to say that I can’t think of any state where the Democrats deserved to lose more than New Jersey. Winning there would have prevented the party from doing much needed soul-searching, and the only reason I’m not happy Corzine lost is that Cristie is a Rovian shitpig prosecutor who belongs in jail.
Yep, what Booman said.
It’s gonna scare the crap out of moderates, and the public option, if it survives, will be a trigger option, not a real option.
Public option? Trigger? As a follow-up act to last week’s stunt–when he knew he didn’t have the votes for a public option–Harry Reid announced today that a bill may not be ready THIS YEAR, which means they are killing reform altogether! Last week was a stunt to appeal to the base. Today was a rare act of truth telling to appeal to independents. November 4, 2009 thru November 4, 2010 will be about ANTI BIG GOVERNMENT INDEPENDENTS, INDEPENDENTS, INDEPENDENTS!
Yeah, but we get “Taliban Bob” instead. I am not sure which is worse.
I’ve been watching that HBO documentary on Obama’s run for president for a while now and just realized things got interesting again, so I have paused it while I get my updates.
Shame about New Jersey, but Booman’s probably right. Dems need to pull together and work as a team if they don’t want to lose it all next year. We need to actually achieve some goals over the next year. Healthcare, climate change, gay rights, immigration, tax the rich, etc…
Maine’s maesure 1 is looking positively SCARY at how close it is coming along. It really is like a coin flip. And that’s the most important thing on any ballot today.
these democrats? Randyh, wake up, you’re havign a fever dream and typing in your sleep!
not gonna happen. not with these democrats.
What truly should be the story of the night is how damn close Bloomberg came to losing with low Black vote turnout against a Black candidate with no establishment or local king maker support and outspent by a measure I don’t have an apt term for. Someone explain that!
Maybe not all New Yorkers like the man who bought New York
He has solid approval ratings. I think it says a lot about Americans attitudes toward rich folks who don’t play by the rules. While I think the so-called tea bagger movement is pure bull shit, I think there is some real populist anger simmering out there. That’s my take away from tonight.
Woo-hoo. we got 2 new wingnuts on our local school board. Creationism and anti-gay hate to go with those NCLB warnings, anyone?
When I was voting today, some woman proudly proclaimed that she used to vote for individual candidates, but in the past few years, she had begun voting straight ticket -Republican.
I laughed when one of our local Dems said to her “Oh, do you want Bush back?”
Apparently so.
Shame on you and the rest of the Progblogs.
Garamendi (D) 56% v. Harner (R) 39% with 28.57% reporting.
Washington State doesn’t exist, and we’re not voting on gay rights issues or anything.
(and my wife’s not trailing by 5 measly votes,but that’s an aside.)
Wash. State so far has Referendum 71 – an “everything but marriage” gay rights law passed by the state legislature that our local Christian homophobes got on the ballot – passing narrowly, which would mean a win for gay rights. (A similar measure a decade ago got trounced.) For some reason WA’s gay issue has gotten a lot less attention than ME’s. The other good news is that I-1033, a draconian, TABOR-like statewide anti-tax initiative, is going down in flames, losing even in the conservative rural counties.
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Will dampen the Rats celebration … Owens – 60,458 (49%) and Hoffman 56,174 (46%) with 88% precincts reporting. A major upset and a lesson overall tonight the voter is always right and won’t be fooled. Most important to GOTV, the votes must be cast.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."23rd shows blue streak –Democrat ends 150-year Republican reign with victory over Conservative
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/509564.html?nav=5008
Cast and, hopefully, counted.
Apparently, this is the final year for the trusty lever machines still operating in some NY localities.
And now I see the results of tonight:
VA-Gov – Rethugs win
NJ-Gov – Rethugs win (this sucks, but Corzine must have screwed up to make voters hate him that much)
NY-23 – Democrat wins!?! WTF? I thought the teabaggers had this one solid. Nice to see voters in that district are somewhat sane.
MAINE 1 – Losing. That really sucks. As a Californian, I saw this happen in my state last year. Christian nuts scare the hell out of middle-aged and older voters with claims of gay marriage being taught to schoolchildren. So disgusting and dispiriting. This must be how civil rights activists felt during defeats in the 40s and 50s.
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Maine’s gay marriage opponents recruited Frank Schubert, the p.r. strategist behind last year’s Proposition 8 advertisements in California, to employ his signature tricks–including telling voters that, if the law remains as it is, gay marriage will be taught to schoolchildren.
See my diary – Maine’s Shame
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Now the legal case against Prop Hate in Cali becomes more important. A state referendum to take away rights seems unconstitutional to me, let’s see how the courts rule.