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Dems take back the House (pg. 3)
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| Epicurus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
Nope, it's tightening in Montana:
Tester 130,686 50%
Burns 121,730 47%
67% reporting
Won't have a result there for at least another hour or two I would have thought.
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Tester 134,013 50%
Burns 126,585 47%
Oh god, don't this up for us now Montana. :( |
Don't worry. It'll be close, but Yellow Stone, the largest county left (and the biggest in Montana) leans democratic (with only 43% of precincts reporting), and Silver Bow, the third largest remaining county is heavily democratic (with only 31% of precincts reporting). FlatHead, the second largest remaining county, is the only heavily republican county (with 60% of precincts reporting), and there aren't enough votes there to make up the current difference, let alone close the additional gap that will be created once Yellow Stone and Silver Bow are counted. I think it's safe to call Montana for the Democrats. |
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| Renegade |
Tester holding firm:
Tester 150,058 50%
Burns 143,033 48%
74% Reporting
Here's hoping you're right, Epicurus. |
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| josh4 |
| Yellowstone called a recount. I don't think this is going to be decided tonight. |
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| Epicurus |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
Yellowstone called a recount. I don't think this is going to be decided tonight. |
Well, that explains why CNN now has 0 votes for Yellowstone. I was wondering what happened there. Either way, I can't see Yellowstone going Republican. Billings is the largest city in Montana, so you'd expect the county to lean democrat because of the urban-big city factor. |
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| josh4 |
| It does look like things are leaning Dem right now but I doubt we'll get the final word until Wednesday morning. VA is still really close so theres potential there for recounts and other delays. |
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| whiskers |
virginia and montana are still undecided senate seats, BUT virginia dems are leading by 8,000 votes with 99% reporting
montana dems, with 83% precints reporting, are up by 3,500 votes - looks like the gap has been closing in the past 4 hours or so; hopefully it doesn't.
looks like the jesus party is very upset about "losing" to the osama-bin-laden party. let's see if they whine about a recount. lots of problems reported with the machines... why not just use the oldskool paper ballot thing, like everybody is asking, i used one and it was simple as 1-2-3
| quote: | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, disappointed at the Democrats' seizure of the House of Representatives, will hold a news conference on Wednesday to urge his opponents to work with him, the White House said.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsa...pNews-newsOne-2
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Jesus down to 1500 votes. |
he was a write-in? see and you'd suppose jesus would get more votes, eh?
suck it, georgey. |
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| Renegade |
Tester 149,164 49%
Burns 143,894 48%
85% Reporting
Come on you beautiful bastard! Get over the line! |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, disappointed at the Democrats' seizure of the House of Representatives, will hold a news conference on Wednesday to urge his opponents to work with him, the White House said. |
Well, he called his 2004 re-election a mandate, maybe the Democrats should view this year the same way. |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Oh before I forget ...
So you espouse the values of Tom DeLay? |
So you espouse the values of Nanci Pelosi? I hardly think it's an either or. Though I do enjoy this tactic that you often use (If you don't believe A, then you must therefore believe B).;) |
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| Spirit5 |
Nancy Pelosi's values are alot better than Tom Delay's, whether you like her personally or not. She may not be perfect, but she's no Tom Delay in the ethics department, she's got a pretty clean record. She's a 66 year old grandma for Christ's sake. She even sought an investigation of someone in her own party, that Jefferson guy from Louisiana who earlier in the year was accused of having thousands of dollars stored in his refridgerator. She's even campaigned to have ethics reform in the House.
The Republicans like to paint her like she's this "San Francisco Liberal". Yes she may be liberal, but who cares. Liberalism has been made a dirty word by Conservatives for quite some time. They try to portray all of these Democrats like they are all liberals, when that is just not the case. The reason the Democrats have won so many seats in the election is because many of them that ran were moderates (some were even Conservatives and former Republicans), working to bring more bipartisianship and compromise into our government. Not one ideology is better than the other, and this has been the problem in our country.
Nancy Pelosi has even said she would try to work in a bipartisan manner in the House to get somethings done that will benefit EVERYONE in this country, not just a select few. So we need to give her a chance. I'm sure many more liberal Democrats will work to moderate some of their view points, and I hope the more conservative Republicans will do the same. We don't need extremes in our country anymore, we need more moderation, and the election results definitely show this. When one party has so much control over government, things like what had happend with Tom Delay and Bob Ney and some of the others are bound to happen. The Democrats have had their ethical problems in the past as well, but at least now we don't have one party rule. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
So you espouse the values of Nanci Pelosi? I hardly think it's an either or. Though I do enjoy this tactic that you often use (If you don't believe A, then you must therefore believe B).;) |
Even if he didn't like Tom Delay, his statement implied that the speakership was taking a turn for the worse ... which, even as much as one may dislike Pelosi, is pretty hard to do given Delay's shennanigans. |
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| LiquidX |
| I predict the DEMS taking the Senate.. there's no way that a recount could outpass WEBB, plus, the early voting cards sent are, most of them, coming from the northern part of virginia, a dominant democrat area. Anyways, what a sweet day. Time for cleaning the house. |
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