Still 4 senate seats undecided

Alaska, Georgia, Minnesota, and Oregon. We have to hope at least one of these goes red or the senate will just rubber stamp anything obama wants. Hell, Stevens is even in the lead right now. I imagine they will count overseas ballots in a week or so and then we will find out. Many overseas ballots are military and they would probably go more for the Republicans historically.

We don't know who our senator will be in Delaware. Biden is, until he takes his oath of office. Then our governor appoints his replacement.

Which will most likely be another Biden.

And certainly another Democrat. Illinois will probably send Jesse Jackson Jr.

My money is on John Carney, our outgoing Lt. Governor. It's complicated, but he was the Democratic choice for governor, only to be beaten by State Treasurer Jack Markell in the primary. Markell won the general election and will be the next governor. Our current governor, Ruth Ann Minner, is still fuming that her boy, Carney, was beaten by Markell. She'll probably take her revenge by appointing Carney, who will be out of a job in January.

There's another Biden?


OK, I'm thinking of 2 fires...

Biden's son is the current Attorney General of Delaware. He is also currently deployed to Iraq. Figure that one out!

Georgia? Since when is that one not settled?

Oh, also, we should vote Minnesota out of the union and give them to Canada if they actually send that moron Franken to Washington.

Since Georgia requires a runoff election if no one breaks 50% and no one broke 50%.

huh.

Last I looked Chambliis was at 54% or so. Oh well.

Actually, I'm hearing that same sentiment, but not over Franken, but over the reelection of Michelle Bachmann.

Franken is likely to win a recount, because provisional ballots that have been shown to be clerical error and not the voters' fault (via voter hotlines run by CNN, et al) will be counted the second time around.

You know it's been a weird election year when a convicted felon still wins his Senate seat and Stuart Smalley comes close to winning one as well.

No, he's at 49.9% So close, and yet not a pure 50.

There will be a runoff on December 2. Obama's Georgia organization will stay put until then.

This thread title should read 3 rather than 4. Oregon is pretty much a done deal for Jeff Merkley...his lead has widen to 10k with 1/3 of Portland and 2/3 of Eugene still to be reported.

Franken's chances are probably around 60/40, and Martin's 50/50.

It's finally being called by the national news organizations. Merkley has a 46,000 vote (3% of the vote) lead now with 84% of the vote in and still mostly blue areas left to count.

Mark Begich just pulled ahead in Alaska.

By THREE votes, no less. Still a ton of absentee ballots to count up there. What the hell is going on in Minnesota, marathon? How, year after year, do the canvas results not match what he reported on election day? Like how did they get attorney general misreported by over 20,000 votes two years ago?

Who knows in Minnesota, but I don't like Jim Martin's chances much in Georgia. I can't see the 3rd party Libertarian going much for either candidate, but moreso for Chambliss if anybody.

Clerical errors, someone forgets to feed a stack of votes through the machine, etc.

Is that's how it is done there? We just got opitcal scanners in Connecticut and I personally fed mine into the machine as I exiting the polls.

That generally just a scan to let you know that the scanner is reading your ballot as intended. It's not part of the official counting process AFAIK.

http://www.elect.alaska.net/data/results.htm

Webpage with updating stats on the absentee recount. Supposedly about 2/3rds of the absentee ballots are to be counted tonight.

Do these hand recounts ever end up putting a Republican in office?

And don't bring up 2000 either, because it was the courts that ultimately decided that one.

Now that's the kind of judicial activism that Republicans like!

This isn't a recount...it's still the first counting of early and absentee ballots.

I do believe FL-13 in 2006 had just such a thing. Redunkulously close race, recount, Congressman Vern Buchannan.

Well, if the same voters turn out as did during the Nov. 4th election, that would hold. But the turnout is likely to be quite different. My guess is that there probably isn't early voting in the runoff and even if there is it's going to be much more limited, which favors Chambliss, but the race is going to get a lot more attention from the national parties than the initial race did, and the Democrats--especially Obama, who i suspect will put a fair bit into this election--have the much better get-out-the-vote operation at this point. Chambliss has to be the favorite, but the dynamics of the race are different this time around. Martin has a much better chance of winning a majority this time than he had of winning even a plurality Nov. 4.

The kind judicial activism that says you can't change the rules of an election in mid-election?

I should have sold off my contracts on Alaska Senate going Republican when I was up.

Saxby Chambliss is in no danger.

Goddamn these worthless parasites thinking that a Dem supermajority in the Senate will lead to the era of milk and honey. Here's hoping you indigent fucks grow up one day and consider being responsible for your own damn selves.