The Last Last Election Thread

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lancer
Still nothing on Gordon Smith/Merkley? Is that the last senate seat up for grabs?

No. They've only counted 32% of Multnomah County, and much of Lane County is still out as well. CNN is showing Multnomah in 100%, but that is an error. Only 170,000 ballots have been counted so far out of 360,000+ cast. Merkley will win it.

The Stevens vote is due to low turnout in AK, I suspect. Since Obama's winning nationally was widely expected, and Palin's presence on the ticket made AK a lock for the Republicans, it looks like a lot of Alaskans just didn't bother to vote. Still pretty astonishing and embarassing for Alaska...

The overall popular vote spread right now is:

Obama 52%
McCain 46%

I wouldn't be surprise to see that margin increase a bit once the final votes are in, especially with the outstanding CA votes. It's the largest point spread since Clinton's 9% victory over Dole in 1996. But it's the largest percentage a President has received since Bush Sr. in 1988.

Obama has now received the most votes in U.S. history.

Turnout may just barely exceed 2004 numbers.

[Lancer]

I'm not so sure Boris...last night I heard that Eastern Oregon should come in for Smith.

Also, we're in Lane and voted for Smith, so there's 2.

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