Election Watching Thread

[XIX]

Ban on Same-Sex marriage:

Arizona losing 57-43, but with just 12% reporting.
South Dakota leading 52-48 after 22%
South Carolina passes the ban.
Tennessee passes the ban.

Edit: By losing I mean that the ban is losing (i. e. answering No to the ban)

Edited November 8, 2006 by XIX

[veroni213]

So I just saw on the news that Steele is not ready to concede. Straight from the horses mouth.

[Romans1513]

[quote name='TrueImage' post='1114688' date='Nov 7 2006, 11:57 PM']
I find that so strange consdiering SD is about to ban gay marriage...
[/quote]

Yeah, except I heard the SD ban on abortion doesn't have exceptions for rape, incest, etc. I'm not for exceptions but that probably would have made a really big difference.

[cappie]

How accurate is this ????



By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats swept Republicans out of power in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, riding public doubts about the war in Iraq and President George W. Bush's leadership to victory.

Two years after a decisive election victory for Bush and his Republicans, Democrats picked up the 15 seats they needed to recapture control of the 435-seat House for the first time since 1994, NBC television said.

Democrats needed to gain six seats to reclaim control of the 100-seat Senate for the first time in four years, and so far had taken three seats from Republicans.

Polls heading into the voting showed Democrats benefiting from public doubts about the country's future, the Iraq war and Bush, whose approval ratings in the mid-30s limited his ability to reach out to independents and drum up support for Republicans.

All House seats, 33 Senate seats and 36 governorships were at stake on Tuesday.

A Democratic majority in even one chamber of Congress could slam the brakes on Bush's legislative agenda in the two years he has left in office and give Democrats a chance to investigate his administration's most controversial policy decisions such as the war in Iraq.

Democrats have promised votes on much of their agenda within the first 100 hours of taking power in January, including new ethics rules, a rise in the minimum wage, reduced subsidies to the oil industry and improvements in border and port security.

Both parties had fired up intensive get-out-the-vote operations to bring core supporters to the polls and sent big-name stars on to the campaign trail in a late effort to win over independents and tip the balance in close races around the country.

About 50 contested House races and 10 Senate races were the chief battlegrounds.

Before the voting, independent analysts predicted Democrats could gain 20 to 40 House seats, while polls showed races for key Republican-held seats in Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Montana and Rhode Island were too close to call.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democrats captured governors' seats from Republicans in New York, Ohio and Massachusetts on Tuesday, broadening their hold on big-state power bases ahead of the 2008 presidential election.

New York elected Democratic Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to replace departing Republican Gov. George Pataki, according to media projections. Spitzer's victory restors the governor's seat to Democratic hands for the first time in a decade.

In Ohio, decisive in the 2004 White House race, Ted Strickland, six-term congressman and Methodist minister, was projected as the first Democrat in 16 years to be elected governor.

Massachusetts, one of the most faithfully Democratic states in presidential elections, returned the governor's job to the party also for the first time in 16 years by electing Deval Patrick as its first black governor and only the second black governor ever from any state.

He was elected to succeed incumbent Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who did not run for a second term and is expected to make a presidential run in 2008.

In other projected returns from the 36 states electing governors, Democrats were reelected in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico and Tennessee, while Republicans incumbents were returned to office in Georgia, Nebraska, Connecticut and Vermont.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Sojourner' post='1114627' date='Nov 7 2006, 09:11 PM']
[color="#3333FF"]Baron Hill[/color] won in a challenge to the Republican incumbent. That is now 3 House seats in total that Republicans have lost.
[/quote]
Indiana

[quote name='Sojourner' post='1114635' date='Nov 7 2006, 09:20 PM']
[color="#3333FF"]Keith Ellison[/color] has been called as winner as a MN U.S. House Rep. First Muslim in Congress.
[/quote]
Minnesota

[quote name='Sojourner' post='1114658' date='Nov 7 2006, 09:43 PM']
[color="#3333FF"]Julia Carson[/color] retains her House seat, despite a solid run by the Republican challenger.
[/quote]
Indiana

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='1114664' date='Nov 7 2006, 09:46 PM']
Soj, could you please post states?
[/quote]
sorry ... I forget you can't read my mind ...

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

I'de wait for the actual results.

The Ohio candidates I voted for are getting worked. Only one Republican is winning.

George Allen's (R-VA) lead is shrinking... Not much left to be reported in the Virginia race.
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[CrossCuT]

[size=1]I think we can now count down the days till the world explodes.
[/size]

[magnificat]

On a slightly happier note (than the world exploding...), MO's clone & kill amendment is being rejected 52%-48% at the moment w/ 50% reporting

[track2004]

oh man i'm so excited the dems are taking over. my roomie and i watched cnn all night. times are a changin'.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='CrossCuT' post='1114750' date='Nov 7 2006, 10:35 PM']
[size=1]I think we can now count down the days till the world explodes.
[/size]
[/quote]
because a vote for Democrats


is a vote for terrorism



too true

[XIX]

R's are going to lose the house. They could still end up with as many as 51-52 in the Senate.

Right now the R's have won 46 and are leading a further five (including Allen's nailbiter). Allen is up by a meager 6,013 votes with only 2% of the precincts left (about 40,000-45,000 votes remain).

Talent is up by six with 55% reporting.
Corker up 3% with 86% reporting, so he's in good shape.
Ensign and Kyl are leading their respective states as expected. They are incumbents in states that are not yet called, but they aren't battleground states, so it's unlikely they will be seriously threatened.

[ardillacid]

[quote name='track2004' post='1114758' date='Nov 7 2006, 11:41 PM']
oh man i'm so excited the dems are taking over. my roomie and i watched cnn all night. times are a changin'.
[/quote]
not really. this happens all the time

[quote name='Sojourner' post='1114759' date='Nov 7 2006, 11:42 PM']
because a vote for Democrats
is a vote for terrorism
too true
[/quote]
I'm trying to detect a note of sarcasm. Tis difficult in mere writing

[Ash Wednesday]

Sounds like it will be Dems taking house, Repubs keeping Senate.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='track2004' post='1114758' date='Nov 8 2006, 12:41 AM']
oh man i'm so excited the dems are taking over. my roomie and i watched cnn all night. times are a changin'.
[/quote]
yep
hell on earth is coming closer and closer to reality

[XIX]

CNN is now projecting that the abortion bill in South Dakota will, in fact, be defeated

That, IMHO, was the biggest part of the election, short term. I'd die to have that pass.