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2010 Midterm Results Discussion

Whovian said:
How the hell is Onorato ahead 67% to 33% when he was behind in the polls?
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Usually this is just as the precincts start reporting in, sometimes one large, heavily liberal or conservative district will report in early and skew things. It usually evens out fast.
 
On a side note, Fox News has a great line-up for their election coverage tonight.

The hosts are Megan Kelly (She's doing a great job) and Special Report host Bret Baird. They have a special panel of 4 assembled to discuss the races... Joe Trippi and Juan Williams from the left, and Brit Hume and Karl Rove from the right.

I don't have the benefit of being able to channel surf, but I heard MSNBC's coverage is hosted by Olbermann, Maddow and Matthews... Not exactly what I would call "balanced".
 
Their calling Morgan Griffith (R) as the winner for House in VA.
 
NBC is calling 236 seats for house for republicans projection plus or minus 13. No clue how they are doing that.
 
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How the hell is Onorato ahead 67% to 33% when he was behind in the polls?
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Deuce said:
Usually this is just as the precincts start reporting in, sometimes one large, heavily liberal or conservative district will report in early and skew things. It usually evens out fast.
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as of 9:02PM EST
901 of 9241 Precincts Reporting

County Results | Exit Poll
Onorato 61%
Corbett 39%
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gonna take a LOT of even-ing out
 
Senate:

Hoeven (R) - North Dakota
Moran (R) - Kansas

House:
R - 79
D - 32

Pick-ups
R - 7
D - 1
 
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE
 
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Grim, I am watching MSNBC, and I would say they are doing pretty good. It does not come off as biased, they are sticking mostly to facts and analysis of why results are going as they are.
 
Redress said:
Grim, I am watching MSNBC, and I would say they are doing pretty good. It does not come off as biased, they are sticking mostly to facts and analysis of why results are going as they are.
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That's good to hear... It wasn't that way the night Scott Brown won Kennedy's old seat.
 
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Zyph makes a good point. Retracted.
 
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Updated OP with house and gov and added Gillibradt, Schummer, Thune, Hoevan and Moran to senate.
 
cpwill said:
well it's nice when the voting machines refuse to vote for anyone else.
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Deuce said:
O'Donnell behind 17 points. So much for that surge.
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Seriously, this thread has been almost to a man rather polite and focused on issues rather than sarcastic pot shots and other partisan BS ****ting on it. Can we take these kind of worthless sarcastic attempts at starting arguments into some other thread? Not saying you have to, but just a request as a poster. It'd be nice to see an actual readable thread about the election results
 
Grim17 said:
Senate:

Manchin (D) - West Virginia
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I was surprised he even had a battle-he's very popular there and sort of ran away from some Obamunist positions.
 
Zyphlin said:
Seriously, this thread has been almost to a man rather polite and focused on issues rather than sarcastic pot shots and other partisan BS ****ting on it. Can we take these kind of worthless sarcastic attempts at starting arguments into some other thread? Not saying you have to, but just a request as a poster. It'd be nice to see an actual readable thread about the election results
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Deuce's comment seemed more like a statement of fact than a pot shot... but that's just my opinion.
 
Fox just projected that Republicans will gain 60 seats in the house, with a total of aprox 236 seats.

Same as MSNBC said
 
Grim17 said:
I think that pretty much ends the slim chance that Republicans had for taking the Senate.
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that's good-Obama won't be able to run against both houses in 2012 if things still suck. and the dems won't have enough to ram stuff through even with the Maine RINOS
 
Zyphlin said:
Seriously, this thread has been almost to a man rather polite and focused on issues rather than sarcastic pot shots and other partisan BS ****ting on it. Can we take these kind of worthless sarcastic attempts at starting arguments into some other thread? Not saying you have to, but just a request as a poster. It'd be nice to see an actual readable thread about the election results
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Why sir I know not of what you speak.

*shifty eyes*

Good point.

In other news, apparently nobody in Minnesota is doing exit polls.
 
So a kid in my class just raised a point and I thought I would ask it here. We are looking at the map and it seems as though mostly Republicanish places have closed the polls. He does think the Republicans will take the House, but we are currently talking about is a this point and time are the numbers we seeing because of which polls are being closed or rather that this is how the nation feels?
 
CBS just predicted the GOP will control the House
 
soccerboy22 said:
So a kid in my class just raised a point and I thought I would ask it here. We are looking at the map and it seems as though mostly Republicanish places have closed the polls. He does think the Republicans will take the House, but we are currently talking about is a this point and time are the numbers we seeing because of which polls are being closed or rather that this is how the nation feels?
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The "GOP takes house" determination is mostly based on how polls have been going lately, as well as how exit polls and currently tallied votes are going. Very little to do with which order that the polls close in.
 
and an evening-out there has been in PA....

1455 of 9241 Precincts Reporting
Senate:
D Joe Sestak 59% 280,599
R Pat Toomey 41% 194,535


1417 of 9241 Precincts Reporting
Governor:
D Dan Onorato 56% 260,770
R Tom Corbett 44% 202,641
 
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