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2010 Midterm Results Discussion

Gibberish said:
As of right now CA is at 47% vs 47%. With a difference of under 100 votes. What source are you reading with Brown winning?
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This could be due to what districts are reporting. If liberal areas haven't been counted yet then that still weighs in regarding the prediction.
 
Wyden in Oregon, Crapo in Idaho.
 
I'm so proud to be a Minnesotan tonight. 70% of us in Minneapolis voted for our Muslim Congressman. He's awesome, too.

Should be fun to see a Dem Senate and GOP House. Maybe they'll start working together... slowly
 
I'm LOVING this random guy, Carl something, doing the board for Fox.

Not only did he acknowledge that Ron Paul was who the Tea Party at its roots originally rallyed around. He also clearly laid out the whole notion with Manchin and how he may end up be voting in regards to the next 2 years and why. And now he's putting forth a very interesting notion that the Republicans losing the senate but winning the house big may be the worst case scenario in the mind of the Obama camp. The reason for this is because a full republican congress would put Obama at a place where the answer is simple in regards to compromising or attempting to stay fast. However with it split like this, the answer becomes more muddled as Obama must either choose to not just stand fast but actively defend the Senate which will likely muck up the stuff passed by the Republican house OR split from the senate and or convince them to split and compromise. A much more difficult task that is likely to cause him political problems no matter which way he goes. Essentially a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation where as the other way would've been an all or nothing type of scenario. It also gives the House coverage to pass some things that may be a bit more "radical" with the idea that its likely to get turned down in the Senate anyways but makes it look like they're actively working towards their principles.

He does acknowledge that its not what the REPUBLICANS likely think is the best scenario, they'd of course rather have full governing power rather than some potential political advantage, but from the Obama side of things he thinks it would be the worst scenario and apparently was something he articulated prior to any of hte results really coming in but just went on to fully explain why now.

The guys insightful and just interesting to listen to this entire time. One of the pluses of the Fox broadcast so far.

Now if only they could combine it with CNN and have him speaking as a hologram projected from an iPad that is filmed on the space station 20 years in the future.
 
Interesting exit poll...

40% support tea party, 31% oppose, 25% are neutral. So essentially a 9% advantage of support compared to opposed, not bad for the movement nor for the notion that somehow it is a hampering thing for the Republicans. At least on a national type level. I'm sure in some locations it is swayed a bit different than the national numbers.
 
Nevada numbers coming in, Reid has early lead, but that is mostly meaningless atm

Reid 162k
Angle 128k
none of the above 5k
Ashjian 1k
 
I approve that in Nevada so far about 5,500 voted for neither candidates.
 
Redress said:
Nevada numbers coming in, Reid has early lead, but that is mostly meaningless atm

Reid 162k
Angle 128k
none of the above 5k
Ashjian 1k
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While it obviously wont happen, what would happen if NV had "none of the above" win?
 
Fox is report CA Prop 19 (legalizing marijuana) was defeated but every report shows 0% districts reporting????
 
Gibberish said:
Fox is report CA Prop 19 (legalizing marijuana) was defeated but every report shows 0% districts reporting????
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This could be due to exit polling results.
 
House and governor numbers updated.
 
Fox is now reporting Boxer as the winner in CA with 44% vs Fiornia's 49%
 
Harry Reid seems poised to upset Sharron Angle (if you can really call winning his own seat an "upset.")
Tell you what, Republicans. Let's make a deal. If Harry Reid wins in Nevada, can we trade his victory to have Russ Feingold back? :mrgreen:
 
Harry Reid leads with 52.83 percent of the votes to Sharron Angle's 43.14, according to the Nevada Secretary of State's website
 
Reid 198k
Angle 167k

Thanks for the heads up on the Nevada Sec of state website taylor.
 
Kandahar said:
Harry Reid seems poised to upset Sharron Angle (if you can really call winning his own seat an "upset.")
Tell you what, Republicans. Let's make a deal. If Harry Reid wins in Nevada, can we trade his victory to have Russ Feingold back? :mrgreen:
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hell yeah. Feingold was against the patriot act, I'm sorry to see his defeat
 
Interesting, nevada was supposed to be close.

Since it's not called yet though, it might change with the precincts coming in.
 
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