Republican Wave

[EPW]

Uh, they have 58 right now and they could very well get 65+..

[SlowwHand]

You don't expect Oerdin to talk and make sense at the same time, do you?

[Lorizael]

Oerdin, do you ever get tired of being so wrong?

[KrazyHorse]

49 seats in the house right now with little chance of getting to DanS's 60-65

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but are you an idiot?

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/main.results/#H

243-178 = 65 projected

239-178 = 61 (based solely on projected individual wins)

[Arrian]

CT did its part in keeping its US reps & senator D. The big ? is Governor. It's really close (though I think Foley will hang on). Whoever was in charge of procuring ballots for the city of Bridgeport should be fired. Ridiculous.

My state senator (D) held on, barely. I voted against her, but to no avail. State rep was an R already and kept her seat easily. The state legislature will still be heavily Dem. For that reason, I won't be upset if we have another Republican governor. We've had lots of 'em, and Folely does not appear to be a kook.

-Arrian

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Never discount the absentee ballots from the Styx, Tarterus, and Hades precincts.

[Arrian]

edit: nevermind. Tired. Baby had us up twice last night/early morning.

-Arrian

[Dinner]

Uh, they have 58 right now and they could very well get 65+..

Damn, result is now 60.

Senate is a bit better 51-46 with three not yet called. Reid pulled it out though.

[Lorizael]

So are we now living in DanS' spooge-filled imagination?

[DanS]

This could be fun (living out my imagination).

[Arrian]

Now the SecState (Dem) is calling Malloy the winner. GOP will cry foul, obviously. It's so close an automatic recount may be triggered. Beyond that, stupid **** went down in Bport. 21k ballots for 69k voters. Sure, you don't plan on 100% turnout, but damn. That's the root cause. Then you have the frantic attempts to correct the problem - making copies and then keeping polling places open past 8 via a rush-rush judge's order. That will all be challeged by the GOP.

Heckuva job, Bridgeport (hilariously, the Dem registrar of voters is claiming she did everything right. Awesome). What could have been an uncontroversial, though close, win for Malloy will now be considered shady by half the electorate. Great.

-Arrian

[Dinner]

Well, I called the Senate right at 53 though low turn out (and probably gerrymandering of districts) added up to make me wrong in the house. How wrong remains to be seen though it seems there is still a possibility DanS might have been over optamistic there just like he was wrong (and I was right) about the Senate.

[SlowwHand]

The Wicked Witch had a house dropped on her. That's something.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Cantor can say all he wants, he has to deal with the new wave of incumbents.

Um... when's the last time the government shut down without backing of either party leadership?

[Boris Godunov]

CT did its part in keeping its US reps & senator D.

The wave seems to have broke against the Rockies, as the Pacific states stayed blue. Even picked up the HI and CA governorships. We're pretty pleased here in Oregon, since they just called the tight governor's race for Kitzhaber, Wyden cruised and the congressional delegations remained unchanged. The Democrats even maintained control of the State Senate, although it appears the House might be split down the middle. And Murray is beating perennial loser Dino Rossi next door in WA, which is always enjoyable.

The bloodbath was pretty much concentrated in Florida and the Rust Belt, plus some of the South. An interesting note is that the House Blue Dog caucus was decimated, losing 25+ of their members, while the Progressive caucus only lost 4. That plus losing bad Senate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh adds a bit of a silver lining.

And what was up with the Maryland GOP renominating a turd like Erlich? They couldn't find *anybody* else? They had to renominate the guy who got drubbed in the last election because he was one of the most unpopular governors they've ever had? Holy ****, they might have been better off running Ellen Sauerbrey again.