Yeah, I will be spending the night with the corporate media (most likely CNN) until I fall asleep.
Update: Endangered Democrat: 'Turnout isn't where we need it to be'
Might not be that long:
"Midwest, South may give early hints at voter trends
WASHINGTON — Election junkies could have a sense early tonight of whether it’s a Republican romp in the midterm elections or Democrats minimized the damage.
Word from the WRH radio show is that Republican turnout is up and Democrats are down.
Final results in some states might not be known for days, but trends could be evident from the Midwest and South — especially from Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia — even before most of the nation has finished dinner.
Six states have polls that close at 7 p.m., and 16 more close by 8 p.m., featuring plenty of telling races in the East and Midwest. First up: Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Vermont, offering the first hard evidence of just how big a night it’s going to be for Republicans.
If the GOP can unseat Representative Baron Hill, a Democrat, in Indiana’s always-hard-fought Ninth Congressional District, for example, that’s a sign of the expected Republican takeover of the House. And if the party can capture all three seats it has an eye on in Indiana, plus beat incumbent John Boccieri in Ohio, that could well signal a GOP hurricane.
On the other hand, if Democrats hold their ground in Indiana, and if their Kentucky Senate candidate, Jack Conway, can beat back Republican Rand Paul, it could be an early indication that GOP gains won’t challenge the record books.
Related: "Paul has maintained a rather sizable lead throughout the fall and is now up by almost 9 percentage points"
Also see: Stomping on Rand Paul
Didn't work.
Even if Republicans demonstrate early strength tonight, it will take time for them to lock in enough districts to ensure a GOP majority. That’s because the West Coast states of California, Washington, and Oregon are home to 67 House districts.
In the Senate races, polls don’t close until 1 a.m. in Alaska, where it could take days or weeks to determine the winner of a three-way race for Senator Lisa Murkowski’s seat.
Related: Write-In Whiteout in Alaska
Either way it goes red.
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Will probably see one of these, though:
"Officials expect recount battles" by Brett J. Blackledge, Associated Prsss | November 2, 2010
WASHINGTON — The large number of too-close-to-call congressional races in such states as Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, and West Virginia has some observers predicting more contested elections and recounts this year. At the very least, a slow count of ballots in such states as Washington and Alaska is expected to keep many voters in suspense....
This happens every election cycle, the threat of dramatic recount struggles. But Florida’s 36-day recount fight in 2000, which left a nation wondering who would be its next president, changed how vote challenges are viewed.
Nothing is unheard of, and everything is possible. It took eight months to declare Democrat Al Franken the winner formally after Minnesota’s 2008 Senate election.
Lawyers across the country have chased down reports of irregularities, part of a preelection ritual fueled by partisans who are concerned that their candidates will suffer from voter and ballot fraud.
Already started.
Consider assertions in Nevada of electronic voting machines that automatically recorded votes for a candidate when tested; phony absentee ballots mailed to some Pennsylvania voters with the wrong return address; and armies of volunteers in Wisconsin vowing to chase away those trying to vote who aren’t properly registered....
Related: Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name
Why the vagueness, establishment media?
Also see: Toomey's Time in Pennsylvania
"Although his numbers have been slipping, Toomey still has a lead of 4 percentage points"
Quick Whisk Through Wisconsin
"Johnson maintains a lead of about 5 percentage points"
The big problems don’t usually surface unless there are razor-thin races. And there are many prospects for those this year, if polling is to be believed. Eight states have candidates in House and Senate races who are running nearly even going into today’s election, including Nevada where Republican Sharron Angle threatens Senate Democratic majority leader Harry Reid.
"Angle has seemed to regain her footing, up by 3 percentage points"
Related: NOTA in Nevada
If Reid rips that one off there will be a revolt!
If candidates in those and other tight races don’t win convincingly, the focus will shift to how votes are counted, and how provisional and absentee ballots will affect the races.
The public is in NO MOOD for ANOTHER RIGGING!
New York voters are expecting problems due to new electronic voting machines that proved less than reliable in the September primary, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg called a “royal screw-up.’’
Then the RESULTS can be neither believed nor respected!
If elections come down to a few hundred votes, problems with voting machines, absentee ballots, and challenges made against voters with registration questions could make a difference, said Wendy Weiser, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice in New York.
I wondered what happened when I slid mine into the optical scanner today.
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