Election Night Musings

(This will be updated as further thoughts strike)



1) Very Surreal moment: Fox News just called Maryland for Cardin - despite the fact that Steele is leading the actual count.



2) They just did the same thing to Ehrlich, the Maryland governor, who is ahead in the count. Do they have the feeds to the public reversed?



3) Republicans find absentee ballots after all the ballots supposedly counted in Ohio. Not much detail. (Later clarification on my part) These were found after all absentee ballots were supposedly secure.



4) Harry Reid bloviating about investigating Halliburton, how he wants to be a uniter. Bull. His actions of badmouthing the opposition are pure divider.



5) They're griping about Steele refusing to concede in Maryland. He's ahead in the count right now. I wouldn't concede either.



6) Conrad Burns in Montana is badly behind in the initial report.



7) Allen and Webb very tight race. Lass 11000 votes out of 2 million plus margin for Allen right now. 3% remaining, and still too close to call.



8) Looks like Democrats have successfully lawyered DeLay's seat. That was low, even for the party of Richard "Dead Man Voting" Daley.



9) Official projection of Democratic House Control.



10) Talking about Dems in Control. Conyers running amok, playing political games along the same lines they've been playing, then portray themselves as "bipartisan". If they do that, after two years you're not going to believe the spanking the Dems get in 2008.



11) Bloviating about immigration reform "which was stalled by the Republican House". Actually, it was stalled in the Senate.



12) With the Dems who are winning being mostly conservative, look for the Dems to overplay their hand, especially if Pelosi interprets this like as a mandate of some sort for liberals.



13) Webb now has a razor-thin lead in Virginia.



14) Lieberman, of course, blow NutRoots candidate Lamont out.



15) With Tennessee effectively out of reach, the Dems need to run the table on Missouri, Montana, and Virginia, but the way the counts are going now, it's looking like they'll do it. The Senate is the only real excitement left nationally.