2014 US Election Open Thread

[estesbob]

Fox calls Iowa for Ernst.Republicans take senate

 

[I_trust]

I’ve been watching the Iowa results on the SOS page. It looks like they are right. The counties left to report are mainly rural counties and she is blowing Braley away in those areas. She is less than 10,000 votes down with around 1/3 of precincts reporting.

EDIT: Twitter is reporting that she is up 7000 with 50% in.

New York Times has a good tool updated each minute to take in to account which likely voters are left…

elections.nytimes.com/2014/senate-model

Ernst projected to win by 7%

 

[estesbob]

FOX Calls NC for Tillis

 

[gilliam]

FOX Calls NC for Tillis

That would do it

 

[YoungTradCath]

Senator Thom Tillis.

 

[Path_Finder]

Tillis to win over Hagan in North Carolina, one more GOP win. Projected by AP.

 

[gilliam]

CBS News project that Joni Ernst wins the Senate seat in IA giving Republicans 52 seats in the Senate

 

[estesbob]

Quinn goes down.!!

 

[RGCheek]

CBS News project that Joni Ernst wins the Senate seat in IA giving Republicans 52 seats in the Senate

With Tillis in N Carolina and later pick ups in Alaska and Louisiana, that gives the GOP a 2 vote majority and later a 4 Senator majority.

Hope they done let it go to their heads.

 

[GEddie]

With Tillis in N Carolina and later pick ups in Alaska and Louisiana, that gives the GOP a 2 vote majority and later a 4 Senator majority.

Hope they done let it go to their heads.

Can’t afford to.

They need to use those heads to keep HRC off their neck

ICXC NIKA

 

[meltzerboy]

So what did we learn tonight? Well that voters want a higher minimum wage, legal pot, abortion access and GOP representation.

Also that they are anti-Obama?

 

[gilliam]

With Tillis in N Carolina and later pick ups in Alaska and Louisiana, that gives the GOP a 2 vote majority and later a 4 Senator majority.

Hope they done let it go to their heads.

Won’t stop a filibuster

 

[YoungTradCath]

The GOP has done it!

 

[kwitz]

Quinn goes down.!!

But at least he’s the first former Illinois governor in quite a while to be leaving office and NOT be heading to jail

 

[RGCheek]

Won’t stop a filibuster

That depends on if the GOP keeps Harry Reids rules and break filibusters on a simple majority.

Sauce for the goose and all that. I suspect McConnell has some daggers to sharpen before the Senate reconvenes.

 

[meltzerboy]

The GOP has done it!

This is an oxymoron. What could the GOP have possibly done constructively, or even destructively, except reject what they don’t like?

 

[RGCheek]

But at least he’s the first former Illinois governor in quite a while to be leaving office and NOT be heading to jail

Still, to keep traditions there in Illinoise he should leave the govenor’s office with an honorary perp walk, lol.

 

[RGCheek]

This is an oxymoron. What could the GOP have possibly done constructively or even destructively except reject what they don’t like?

Apparently you don’t know what an oxymoron is.

The GOP did constructively handle the situation with Kansas Senator Roberts, and revised their get out the vote efforts to neutralize the vaunted Democratic ground game.

Good grief, what else do you think it means when someone says a political party has won?

 

[YoungTradCath]

This is an oxymoron. What could the GOP have possibly done constructively, or even destructively, except reject what they don’t like?

That’s about as much as we can ever hope for.

 

[meltzerboy]

Apparently you don’t know what an oxymoron is.

The GOP did constructively handle the situation with Kansas Senator Roberts, and revised their get out the vote efforts to neutralize the vaunted Democratic ground game.

Good grief, what else do you think it means when someone says a political party has won?

I know what an oxymoron is, and the GOP is the party of no and obstruction, not the party of change, either constructive or destructive. That’s what conservative Republicans specialize in, and that’s what I was referring to.