Graham (R) projected winner SC Senate; Richardson (D) projected winner Arizona Governor

Don't you mean Richardson -New Mexico?

Richardson is steam rolling Sanchez. Could that bode well for House races in NM?

Cathy Cox should definatley be the Senate Dem nominee to replace Miller in 2004!

Secretary Of State
49% of precincts reporting

Cathy Cox (D) 524,347 61.5%
Charlie Bailey (R) 299,949 35.2%
Mike Pitts (Lib) 27,912 3.3%

Robert Erlich is back in the lead in MD Governor with 46 % precents reporting. 51-49

I don't know you guys. with 71% of the precicts in Bush's 21% lead over McBride has dropped to about 16%. Have they counted Miami-Dave, Palm Beach and Broward yet?

JOhn Jimenez

The more I look at the Ga returns, it looks like Cleland is in trouble. The gap isn't closing quickly enough.

CNN called NH Sununu - F*ck.

Interesting how Garrett is absolutely steamrolling Sumers by 30%... Ferguson up by 15% or so...

Of course, I had long since conceeded Lautenberg would win...

Cleland is fine. Barnes is in the same shape.

MD has some real nailbiters.

Townsend's leading again (barely) 50-49-1 with 67% reporting

...Uhmm. This is interesting. With 74% of Floridas precincts in jebs lead over McBride has dropped to about 14 1/2 percent from 22% it looks like to me.

John Jimenez

The big surprise to me is that Perdue seems to be giving Barnes a real run for it so far.

without knowledge or specific precint results based on past results, i dont' think you can read much into the results so far.

How can you call GA-12 yet?

United States Representative - 12th District
63% of precincts reporting

Charles "Champ" Walker (D) 37,581 49.2%
Max Burns (R) 38,848 50.8%

Carcieri up by 8 in RI...
Baladacci only up by 8 in ME...
Romney up by 9 in MA...
Douglas up by 1 in VT...
Benson in a landslide...
Pataki is golden...

Looks like my Northeastern GOP wave is coming through...

I really REALLY wish Fulton and Dekalb counties would come in so they could call Georgia! Ahhhhh!

CBS calls Georgia for Chambliss

CBS News has now called the Georgia Senate seat for Chambliss.

The Ga Dems are in serious trouble tonight. I don't think Cleland can make up the deficit at this point. This sucks.

uh, check out drudge...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt has resigned...

zowee.

Maryland Update.
Still too close to call.

Erlich is leading 51-48-1 with 81% reporting.

Hollen is leading Morella in MD 8 51-48-1 (84% reporting)

who cares about Harvey Pitt, The thought of living in a Bush nation makes me loose all hope for this world

So it comes down to Carnahan and Johnson.

they both have to win I take it

Do you have SC wrong, or is it me: the last figures I have are:

STATE TOTAL
100,639 D
51.00%

94,331 R
47.80%

Johnson's up (precariously) and Carnahan's down.

How can you call GA-12 yet?

should say "are going" instead of "have gone" The FL 5th is down to about 2k lead for the GOP sign-stealer.

Barnes looks like he is going down also. This is an unmitigated disaster.

FOX calls it for Chambliss.

Strange, CNN is saying Bonilla defeats Ceullar, when they have the vote tally as:

Bonilla (incumbent) 11,237 26%
6% of precincts reporting
Cuellar 31,166 73%

no dan rather, this is not a bushification. it's a bushwacking! i'm going to puke. more wingnuts in the senate.

So, right now, if the polls hold, we're right back where we started with the Senate, 50-49-1, Dems retain control.

Not a disaster, but not really anything.

Freudenthal is winning so far in Wyoming. It looks like Jeb's won. Low turnout being the basis of his victory.
Georgia worries me! I hope Cleland survives!

That is, if Mondale wins.

still it will look like a bush mandate. and then what about Louisiana. Looks like the south has risen and won

Oddly Sigelemen in Alabama is also ahead while Hodges looks like he will lose!

I'm seeing Minnesota numbers with Coleman leading but they are all based on 0 percent reporting.

Chambliss sucks. The south (I am a southerner) will believe anything. That's how my dirt poor ancestors got rooked into fighting a war to protect the right to own slaves, a right they were far too poor to ever hope of excercising.

Yeah, I used to live in Chambliss' district and I tell you he is nothing but a rubber state and farm welfare proponet. So all you conservatives out there (especially from the NE) start complaining about taxes--this is who you are supporting.

Townsend is going to lose. She's down
90,000 votes with only 7% left to report.

It will be a sad day for liberals tommorow.

It looks like the Ga. GOP may get their referendum on the confederate battle flag after all.

Henry's going to win OK.

CNN: Romney and Ehrlich.

My parents tell me KKT ran a dreadful campaign and deserved to lose, but where Romney fits in, I don't know.

I just realized that I wasn't counting right.

If the numbers hold, the Republicans get the Senate. I don't know what I was thinking.

Remember: Dems still going to gain govs - so no GOP trend, let alone mandate. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. (And they'll try.)

Turnham slipped back behind in Alabama...

yeah republicans get the senate...

i can't believe this...

distaster for democrats

the economy is in chambles yet
Bush coattails

are Americans that stupid?

I was at the Wellstone memorial last week. I saw a wonderful 3.5 hour event with about 5 minutes of one speech being over the top. The media really spun that isolated 5 minutes BIG TIME. I wonder how much that effected tonight's races? Any thoughts?

Cleland's campaign was weak and his debate performance was dreadful. He didn't seem to want it bad enough.

Prime's right. Townsend is dead.

The Repubs are already claiming that the results are a big victory for them. Whether it is true or not, it may well be perceived that way by the country and certainly spun that way by the WH.

Unbelievable, Cleland lost.

Well, I hate to say it, but if they make gains in the House and take back the Senate, it will be a big victory.

To borrow a sports cliche, the outburst at the Wellstone memorial service was "bulletin board material" for the opposition. Should Mondale lose, it certainly will be the reason.

Democrats are sweeping up a lot of Gov seats, but if they lose the Senate today, man! But look, Carnahan and Johnson haven't lost yet.

What about COlorado, that came out of nowhere!

No, I don't think it was the Wellstone Memorial (except if Mondale loses). I think the Dems were just a little too quiet. I think the idea was to run a low-risk campaign, not confronting Bush, either because Zell Miller would desert, or just because they were worried about a big blowout loss if they tried "va banque". And it's true, the Dems aren't losing HUGE numbers of seats, it's just they didn't have any cushion to start with. (Strickland looks bad, BTW.) This was the strategy for a party leading 55-45.

I do wish the Dems had the focus and ferocity that Newt Gingrich showed in 1994, with his Contract On America, but they don't.

And now Thune is gaining on Johnson, big time.

If they take back the Senate, the republicans will argue that this is a bush victpry. In doing so they will also claim its support for a second Gulf War.

Im shocked of tonights outcome. The Republicans now control all branches of government. The Dems seem to have lost all the senate races, they will only pick of AR. They will lose 4 seats. This is going to be an awful 2 years.

Oh Hell, Romney... I can't take four more years of these guys...

Democratic message was bad. Time to sweep out and try some new ideas.

1. more balls on the war
2. find out what happened on the economy. Anti-tax cut was a loser.
3. mend fences with black voters.

shocking
this is a fearful country now.. and Bush Inc played into that fear.
This is a man that lost the election in 2000
thanks to a bunch of terrorist we now have a republician police state about to start World War III

i guess bin laden got what he wanted

Guys, I'm telling you. A repub controlled governt. will drag us into a big mess in the middle east as far and destabilize the world. Repubs understand very little on forign policy concerning the middle east. The postings on this website as well as well the collapse of Sharon's government all prove this. If I were Saddam Hussein I'd dig a bunker all the way down to hell. The new govt. Head of Turkey's government who won in their elections a few weeks past has already said he wont help us in Iraq. So we are heading in the era of Vietnam once again.
***Sigh

John Jimenez

It appears that Ga. governor Roy Barnes, who outspent his opponent 10-1, will lose tonight. Unfreakingbelievable.

Well this is the time to start to work on 2004. I think that the nation will not want to continue to give Bush a blank check for 4 more years. He will be extremely hard right now. If he thought he had a mandate with losing the popular vote--can you imagine what he thinks now. To me the worst thing is that there will be no independent commission for 9/11. I feel really sorry for those families.

new friggin thread :(

While I'd rather not give up on democracy, I wonder whether we can govern ourselves at all. I admit not liking many of Bush's social positions, but the ones about which we ought to have a broad, thoughtful consensus--war, fiscal soundness, fairly paying for government--are sold using one-liners and sound bites. If one can sell war by repeating charges that are clearly unfounded (such as a link between al-Qaida and Saddam), what's left?

You know how you can tell tonight is a disaster: 1) Everything for the democrats is hard, it takes forever to call Democrat wins. 2)I saw Begala and Carville talking on the crossfire set and though they didn't explicitly say it, they implied that Democrat leadership heads should roll, and the message should change.

What about Lincold Chafee or Snowe who could flip and follow jeffords path?

John Jimenez

Okay most Liberals here need to get involved with there local democratic parties it looks like we need to turn the democratic party back to its liberal base. The new democrat has failed. We need to return to the "New Deal" Democrats. Just my 2cents.

I am going to get arrested a lot in the next 2 years. I can feel it coming.

This country may not be worth leading.

For instance - Georgia. Anyone really want to represent a state that would actually believe that a man who threw himself on a grenade doesn't support the defense of his country?

Does anyone know election law in OK? I heard that you had to have 50% + 1 to win the governorship

First off, this is my first message here.
Secondly, I want to thank MyDD for having this forum, and all the good company it keeps.

Lastly, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the abject failure of our party to actually STAND UP FOR WHAT IT SUPPOSEDLY BELIEVES IN. The message fell flat because OUR "leaders" were too busy having tea at the home of a Tyco CEO (already under investigation) to bother listening to the RANK AND FILE. Our countrymen and women may be undereducated, but they are NOT stupid. We were in a "put up or shut up" situation, and those we looked to for leadership baulked while turning to accept a check from the WRONG PEOPLE. People can see that, whether we care to accept it or not.

We have to start all over and get it right next time. If we don't, it may be quite a while before we even get to practice Democracy.

AP is calling Oklahoma for Henry, but Largent won't concede.

Chafee might become an Independent, but I doubt Snowe will switch.

Pelosi seems like an awesome bet to lead a resurgance of the New Deal Democrats. If Steny Hoyer beats out Pelosi for the House leadership, what about a Pelosi presidential run?

Freaking Democrat winners!