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  2. 2.

    PsiFighter37

    Will be interesting to see how the KY-Sen race turns out – everyone was gung-ho about their turnout operation, but it sure seems to have failed.

  3. 3.

    mai naem mobile

    I wasnt going to follow this shit tonight. Ugh. Warner might lose in VA. BTW @Taniel is a good follow on the Twitter machine.

  5. 5.

    PsiFighter37

    Capito wins WV-Sen. Thanks for nothing, Cole!

    Also – too early to call in GA-Sen? Unhappy it’s only too ‘early’ – reports are that the AA vote was absolutely sky-high.

  6. 6.

    Valdivia

    @PsiFighter37: yeah sigh. as I was mentioning in the previous thread everyone I read about this race predicted since last week that it would be a loss. Now reasons to be optimistic: the ground operations that are being touted as making a difference are Alaska, Colorado and Iowa so I have my fingers crossed :)

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    I freely admit, I am not a statistician of any kind, but it still seems weird to me that they would call the race for McConnell with less than 20% of the districts reporting in and fewer than 200,000 votes counted.

  10. 10.

    Trentrunner

    Just came here to throw McConnell’s win in the face of BJers who Demsplained Grimes’ idiotic refusal to say she voted for Obama.

    Idiots.

  11. 11.

    Helen

    Any other results to share?

    Well I can safely call my congressional district – NY 09. (Formerly Anthony Weiner’s district; yeah, poor us). The democrat Grace Meng will win. She ran unopposed, so….. there’s that!

  15. 15.

    Hal

    The Kentucky race is not the bellwether for this election time. A deep red state reelecting a deep red turtle does not mean all is lost. Look to North Carolina if you want a indicator of how things are going.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    @Trentrunner:

    Just came here to throw McConnell’s win in the face of BJers who Demsplained Grimes’ idiotic refusal to say she voted for Obama.

    She’s going to lose by 15+ points. Who the fuck do you think in that state was going to rescue her when she offered to suckle Obama at her teat?
    Shut the fuck up.

  18. 18.

    PsiFighter37

    Ugh, John Kasich is not going to be the next president. Seriously? Seriously?!

    STFU MSNBC

  20. 20.

    Valdivia

    @Mnemosyne: I think they have numbers of how much Grimes needed to win by in certain areas to win, that’s how they call it I assume.

    Are those KY numbers going down? the 13% worries me. sigh.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne It’s not just the numbers, but where those numbers are from. There are only certain districts which are not a given as to results, and if the D isn’t carrying enough of those, then, statistically, game over.

    As mentioned in the thread below, AP and others had a full hour to crunch the numbers from the part of KY in Eastern time zone (plus early voting numbers statewide).

  23. 23.

    Valdivia

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: really? that wasn’t even close in the polls. Sounds to me like Republican triumphalism way ahead of time. If they won in Virginia it will be a blood bath. I really think it’s all rumors until the numbers come in. (crosses fingers)

  24. 24.

    beltane

    I think Betty Cracker might be getting a new and improved governor.

    Sorry to say, Appalachia is lost to the Dems for at least a generation. No way Hillary Clinton is going to change that.

  26. 26.

    PsiFighter37

    @beltane: Yeah, I was very skeptical of the Clintons showing up there and in Arkansas and thinking they would make a difference. 20-25 years is a lifetime in politics…

  28. 28.

    Hal

    @Corner Stone: I just heard a guy on NPR today who was voting for McConnell because? You guest it, BENGHAZI!!! Also the “scandal” as he put it of Ebola, because that’s Obama’s fault too.

    Though I still think Grimes could have been more finessed in her response.

  32. 32.

    Valdivia

    see you in an hour. need to get some writing done before I give in. I really think its too early to call it a carnage no?
    /runs off

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    So when will Kornacki grow the goatee? He’s striving for the Chuck Todd award for “ooh, it lights up and it moves!” meaningless playing of what if games with the electronic gizmo.

  34. 34.

    lamh36

    This Grimes even have Michelle Obama campaign for her?

    Or was the Obama name still too much, even with the most popular Obama’s name bring attached?

    I know Obama campaigned for a few candidates that didn’t run away from him, anyone know how they did?

  35. 35.

    maye

    Virginia doesn’t make any sense until No. Va. is counted. It’s always like that. Fairfax county is the largest and the last to be counted.

  38. 38.

    Morzer

    @PsiFighter37:

    And it’s worth remembering that the Big Dawg (LOL!) never got to 50% nationally. Not that this inconvenient truth stops the mythology from rolling right along.

  41. 41.

    Morzer

    Looks like Hagan and Warner should be OK. Please, dear FSM, don’t let Boss Hoggette win in Iowa.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    Shut up, Manchin. Obama didn’t kill coal. Fracking and natgas did. You stupid pandering hick fuck.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    @Hal:

    Someone in the thread below pointed out that Grimes’s waffling probably managed to alienate African-American voters without gaining her any votes from whites. A lose/lose decision, in other words.

  44. 44.

    askew

    Thanks for the thread. Sick of the doom and gloom from DK and MSNBC.

    Crist looks to win FL-Gov and GA-Sen and GA-Gov are on pace to go to runoffs at least. That is excellent news.

  45. 45.

    Morzer

    @PsiFighter37:

    Coal has never been less relevant than it is today. It’s a shrinking industry with insignificant numbers of voters employed in it. Still, why should an “analyst” actually bother with facts?

  46. 46.

    Cervantes

    @Trentrunner:

    Just came here to throw McConnell’s win in the face of BJers who Demsplained Grimes’ idiotic refusal to say she voted for Obama.

    Well, thanks ever so much, but if (in your universe) you are arguing that she would otherwise have won, what makes you think you actually know this?

    Idiots.

    There are at least two varieties: self-aware and oblivious.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    @askew:

    GA-Sen and GA-Gov are on pace to go to runoffs at least. That is excellent news.

    That’s not excellent if you’re a D voter.

  51. 51.

    Helen

    This is why I love Wonkette and why they will keep me sane tonight. A commenter just wrote:

    “It coulda been Ashley Judd – Just sayin’.

  53. 53.

    askew

    @Mnemosyne: @Mnemosyne:

    Yeah, that was moronic as well as her loudly proclaiming she was a Clinton Democrat and not an Obama Democrat. That dog-whistle was heard by more than just AA voters. She is going to lose by a bigger margin than McConnell’s last opponent which should tell the Clintons something about running against Obama.

    Crist spent the entire campaign basically humping Obama’s leg and he’s killing Crist.

    Nunn in Georgia said that she voted for Obama with no wavering. Hagan in NC did the same.

  55. 55.

    Morzer

    @Corner Stone:

    Seriously? This is long-time bright red Georgia, home of the Blessed Newticles, that we are talking about. Getting this close is excellent news – and says that Georgia is moving into the purple to pale blue range, just as Virginia and North Carolina have done.

  60. 60.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    All the polls in KY were closed when the call was made.

    As for 2000, IIRC, FL was called for Gore and then that call was rescinded.

    Surely accomplished more technologically nowadays, but worked the results room for AP once. We were required to sign commitments to not release results before the proper time; actual numbers were being phoned in by stringers in advance of all polls closing.

  62. 62.

    askew

    @Corner Stone:

    Of course it is good news. Polls had the GOP winning outright with no runoff in the works.

    And I’ll contend until the end of time that Judd would have run a better campaign than Grimes did. She was running like it was 1992.

  63. 63.

    Eric U.

    I know Manchin is an idiot, but why would a Dem blame Obama for the market forces that are killing coal. Is he just that stupid or what? Northern Pennsylvania is a wasteland of fracking sites, places are converting to natural gas because there is a surplus and it’s cheaper. It’s all about money and has absolutely nothing to do with government, although the environmental benefits are a bonus, I’m sure.

    Really sad that Grimes didn’t run a better campaign. Really seems like hanging McConnell with wanting to kill Kynect would have been a winner. I never thought she would win though

  70. 70.

    Helen

    @raven: This. Really. I don’t have a clue why he ran as a Dem. Cole, do you have any insight on that? Is this what a WV dem looks like?

  71. 71.

    Schlemazel

    @Mnemosyne: @RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac):
    The perform exit polling all day long. They put people in key districts & interview random people as they leave. If you pick the right districts its easy to project how the race will turn out. My dad as an expert at this. He would see results from Armpit County MN and say “X only only got 62% of the vote there, he has lost”. He never missed, you just need to understand voting patterns.

  73. 73.

    PsiFighter37

    Please get Chuckles off my screen. I can’t listen to these wankers jizz themselves over Ed Gillepsie.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @NotMax: Somebody on twitter said, in re exit polls, “Remember when John Kerry was president for two hours?”. I do. I was in France, it was after midnight and everyone was saying the Bush presidency was done, so I went to bed happy, woke up and became very, very sad.

    I also saw it note that in 2012, Colorado certified 35K provisional votes after election day. I just hope Mark Udall has some good lawyers.

  78. 78.

    PsiFighter37

    On the upshot so far – looking good for Crist, we held FL-18 (Patrick Murphy) easily, and Gwen Graham is in prime position to pick up FL-02 for us.

    Maybe the Florida Democratic Party can finally start to rebuild itself into something reasonable after this? (although, speaking from NY, I have very little to be proud of myself)

  80. 80.

    Morzer

    4:45 PM PT: With 42 percent reporting in Florida, Charlie Crist retains a 49-46 lead. The good news? Nothing yet from Dem-heavy Miami-dade county.
    RT @JoeNBC: GOP official in Florida just told me, “The early numbers look good for Charlie. I don’t know if we can pull this off.” #FlaPol
    — @SaintPetersblog

    4:50 PM PT: Charlie Crist may have coattails. Republican hopes to pick up FL-18 are dead, with Democrat Patrick Murphy winning GOP-heavy Martin County 56-44 with 61 percent in. CNN just called it, a Democratic hold. Murphy should’ve been the most vulnerable freshman.

    Meanwhile, Hillsborough County is coming in even stronger for Charlie Crist as election-day votes are counted.

    And in FL-02, Democrat Gwen Graham is leading odious Rep. Steve Southerland 60-40. That would be a Democratic pickup. At least in Florida, no wave.

    Go Dolphins!

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    @Morzy: Yeah, seriously. A run off favors the R in both cases.
    If you want to claim moral victories to look forward to 2016, then that’s a good thing.
    But in 2014 a run off is not excellent news for the D.

  83. 83.

    Schlemazel

    @askew:
    If Scott won would that make him a Crist killer? Would he have to be circumcised?

    Sorry, dark humor is all I can muster tonight

  84. 84.

    raven

    Manchin entered West Virginia University on a football scholarship in 1965; however, an injury during practice ended his football career.”

    Just like Saxby, kept his sissy ass out of the military.

  85. 85.

    PsiFighter37

    @raven: It’s more patriotic in taking that sweet federal aid, baby!

    MSNBC projects that Republicans maintain control of the House. Not a surprise – but I think it’s time to dump Nancy Smash and get a fresh young face in there.

  87. 87.

    Morzer

    @Corner Stone:

    You really have a remarkable capacity for short-term stupidity and militant obtuseness. A decade ago, a result like this would have been unimaginable in Georgia. Think what this means for the future, just for once. If we can flip Georgia, the GOP is absolutely buried as a national party. That’s far more than a moral victory.

  88. 88.

    lamh36

    Hmm, interrupting my Hawaii vacation to comment on election results in KY Senate. All I’ll say is that people usually will stand up for pols who stand up for them. I’ll just say I didn’t see a lot of standing up for them by the losing candidate. Should make some other Democrats rethink the strategy of snubbing Obama to the point of appearing disrespectful and not really with him to Obama’s core voters who just happens to be the ones they need to keep to win any election

    Anyway let’s see how Mary Landrieu does. I’m hearing there were bigger numbers than usual in NOLA. Hope it’s enough.

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    @askew:

    Yeah, that was moronic as well as her loudly proclaiming she was a Clinton Democrat and not an Obama Democrat. That dog-whistle was heard by more than just AA voters

    So funny. 2/3rds of the exit polling view Obama negatively and there’s about 14% of the voting pool that’s AA.
    I would say “you do the math” but it’s clear you’re incapable of it.

  91. 91.

    Karen in GA

    Sickly this evening — second nasty cold in six weeks. Debating whether to watch the results or just curl up in a miserable ball and let my sinuses stuff up until the front of my head explodes.

    Good times.

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    @Morzer: Shut up, dumbass.
    We’re not in 2016 and we’re not 10 years ago.
    Check your moral victory at the door and GFY.

  93. 93.

    JCT

    @raven: But at least now he has his chance to vote to ship other people’s children to fight wars! It’s almost the same! These chickenhawks make my skin crawl.

  94. 94.

    Davis X. Machina

    @PsiFighter37: Doubt it matters.

    The Speaker doesn’t matter nearly as much as the state houses where legislative apportionment is done, and district boundaries drawn.

  96. 96.

    askew

    @Morzer:

    Snort. Wouldn’t put it past Charlie. But, then again I have to like any Dem who isn’t running away from Obama and acting like they’ve never seen a black person before.

  98. 98.

    Helen

    MSNBC just called Wolf, the Democrat, for Governor in PA. So that’s a pick-up; locally speaking.

  99. 99.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Eric U.: I know Manchin is an idiot, but why would a Dem blame Obama for the market forces that are killing coal. Is he just that stupid

    I think yes. Also, it’s really weird how what i think have been recognized as pretty shitty jobs since Emile Zola’s time are now a bulwark in the culture wars, almost on a par with farmers.

  100. 100.

    MikeBoyScout

    As a Washingtonian,
    where we vote by mail without voter suppression, have 2 Democratic Senators, where a Republican has not won the governor’s office in 30 years, where our largest city, Seattle, has more Socialists on the city council than Republicans and where the economy is well outpacing the rest of the nation,

    I feel sad for you all living in crazy Murica.

    Also too, legal marijuana and popularly voted for marriage equality.

  101. 101.

    Morzer

    @Corner Stone:

    Looks like someone needs to change Corny’s diaper. Anyway, pie time for you. Have fun buying authentic Ann Coulter used panties from your local dealer.

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    Heh. Wolf projected winner for gov in PA (no surprise).

    But with the accompanying graphics reading “0% reporting.”

  111. 111.

    eemom

    @JPL:

    fyi.. What ever happened to your plumbing problems? Is your abode back to normal or whatever normal is?

    More or less. Several thousand excruciating dollars later the plumbers finally cleared the mold remediation equipment out today. There are still coats all over the place until we get the drywall in the closet replaced…..more dollars…

    eedad claims to miss the sound of the industrial-strength dehumidifiers blasting 24/7.

    Thanks for asking!

  113. 113.

    Morzer

    @askew:

    Yeah, Charlie Crist Portrait of Courage. Whodathunkit? Still, if it boots Skeletor The Embezzler out of office, I’ll gladly embrace Charlie Crist in all his newly minted Democratic glory.

  114. 114.

    PsiFighter37

    Corbett gets flushed. He was cooked after the Penn State stuff went down, but his education cuts was what really screwed him over. He also had no political sense.

    Unfortunately, I do worry that because it wasn’t a machine politician at the top, there’s not going to be any wave that helps us out at the State Leg level.

  116. 116.

    TooManyJens

    This is a new one on me: Election judges in Chicago got robocalls telling them they had to show up to a (fictional) three-hour training yesterday or they wouldn’t be able to work today.

    A number of city election judges received “intimidating” phone calls over the weekend that led some of them to quit the post, according to officials at the Chicago Board of Elections. More than 2,000 judges didn’t show up on Tuesday, Jim Allen said.

    —
    Neal said dozens of party-affiliated judges who help oversee polling places received calls instructing them to attend additional training sessions. The callers also told them to only vote for the party for which they serve as judges.

    “We faced a problem with a malicious attempt yesterday, reaching out to our judges telling them (that) unless they served another three hour session at the training facility they could not serve today. Many of our judges resigned immediately,” Neal said.

    —
    Allen said the calls came from one party, but that information would not be released on Election Day. Officials are seeking an investigation.

    There were polling places that were unable to open on time because not enough judges showed up.

    Who says innovation is dead?

  118. 118.

    Morzer

    @Cacti:

    If she’s as ambitious for the governor’s chair as people seem to think, she might find herself facing that question in the future. I suspect though that she might have ended her political career with that non-response.

  120. 120.

    Belafon

    @maye: Daily Kos put Virginia this way: The percentages in the counties in tonight that show Gillespie ahead are in the same counties and at the same percentages that Romney won. So, unless something bad happens in the cities, Warner wins.

  121. 121.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the chickens ain’t hatched, but…
    Greg Sargent @ ThePlumLineGS · 4m 4 minutes ago

    MT @ RealClearScott: Brown is not getting results he needs to beat Shaheen in Manchester & Concord wards. He’d need big margins elsewhere

    .
    Real Clear Politics leans right, right? Also, TPM saying that Udall needs a turn out of 2 million plus to beat ‘likely voter’ models, they’re on track to have 2.1 million voters. Again, not a sure thing, just a hopeful sign.

  126. 126.

    PsiFighter37

    Too close to call in VA-Sen? Mark Warner got a bit too comfortable, I think – hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself in the Senate and figured he could coast on his erstwhile popularity.

  128. 128.

    Morzer

    5:00 PM PT: Exit polls shows last minute surge towards Dems:

    When did you finally decide…?
    In the last three days/in the last week:
    VA-Sen D+11
    NC-Sen D+6
    KY-Sen D+14
    GA-Sen D+15

  131. 131.

    Schlemazel

    @askew: Love Al, still have no idea what Mark wants or why he needed to be Gov. His handling of the government shutdown typified his term; drew a line with the GOP, shut the state down for a few weeks and then give in and accept the deal he was offered originally.

    He was not my choice & he was not the endorsed candidate – the only thing I will say is that he has been better than the assclown he ran against – and will be Batshit Bachmann’s replacement next year. Last I saw it looks like Little Lord Mills III will represent MN8

  132. 132.

    lamh36

    Ok final thought then off to enjoy some dinner in Honolulu.

    Wolf is projected winner in PA, Hagan doing better numbers so far than last time, Charlie Cristina might pull this through. GA tight, even if we don’t win.

    All in common, candidates who didn’t run from Obama with their hair on fire. Heck Crust campaigned hard with Michelle Obama, I thought he was gonna hug her to death. Wolf dis Crist one better he campaigned with Obama himself and after that rally his number continued to go up.

    My analysis…Clinton Dems better think long and hard about that run from Obama at all costs strategy before running with it.

  138. 138.

    PsiFighter37

    No one really paying any attention – but looks like Nikki Haley already declared the winner over Vince Sheheen. South Carolina loves to try and distinguish itself with the quality of their politicians.

  141. 141.

    eemom

    Good Lord, stop all this silly handwringing about VA…..nothing means shit until NoVA and the other population centers are counted.

    Even fucking Nate Silver gave Gillespie a 4% chance two days ago.

  143. 143.

    Morzer

    @lamh36:

    Yeah, you diss a historic black president to pander to racists and the black community is going to find other things to do than saving your cowardly ass at the polls.

    Note this well, HRC.

  145. 145.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @raven: @ Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s the missing link!
    Well, I always kinda thought a few of Scottie’s links were missing….

  146. 146.

    MomSense

    @lamh36:

    My analysis…Clinton Dems better think long and hard about that run from Obama at all costs strategy before running with it.

    Agreed.

  148. 148.

    PsiFighter37

    I haven’t really seen much of Grimes before, but this concession speech is awful. No wonder she lost…

  151. 151.

    Morzer

    @PsiFighter37:

    She’s basically given to shouting a series of one-liners and attack lines rather than actually delivering a speech with, you know, old-fashioned things like an argument.

  154. 154.

    Cervantes

    @Morzer:

    Yeah, you diss a historic black president to pander to racists and the black community is going to find other things to do than saving your cowardly ass at the polls.

    That plate of revenge had better be awfully sweet …

  155. 155.

    Corner Stone

    Oh God! ALG didn’t mention Obama in her concession speech to Turtle! Maybe she’ll now lose by 20% instead of 15%!

  157. 157.

    TriassicSands

    @Trentrunner:

    Grimes spineless decision — in the best invertebrate traditions of the Democratic Party — was nauseating. She looked like an idiot and I can’t imagine her refusal to say for whom she voted helped her at all with anyone. And it would be understandable if Democrats decided she wasn’t worth wasting a vote on.

    I’ve been following politics for more than fifty years and Grimes’ refusal was among the most appalling decisions I’ve ever seen a candidate make. She didn’t deserve to win. Why is it so hard for Democrats to display actual conviction?

    My advice to Grimes? Switch parties. Then she can lie with impunity.

  160. 160.

    PsiFighter37

    @raven: I read about it but didn’t bother to see the clip itself. Either way – don’t think she’s as bright a star as everyone was making her out to be.

    Apparently we get to see Turtle speak next. Maybe he can tell us about the lines of coke he’s going to do from his father in-law’s boat.

  161. 161.

    Cacti

    I’m hoping that tonight’s result in KY will wake the Clintons up to the fact that it’s not 1992 anymore, and their endorsement in the southern states means jack shit these days.

  162. 162.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: @MomSense: I didn’t see it, but I saw a post about Chuck Todd, The disQualifier!, saying that the Democratic party is no longer the party of Barack Obama, it is once again the party of the Clintons
    I think this is the kind of shit the devil on Hillary’s shoulder that looks a lot like her husband whispers in her ear, kinda like “vote for the war… hire Mark Penn…”

  163. 163.

    MikeBoyScout

    Sen Elizabeth Warren (MA-fighter) just blasted an email. It closed with this

    Change is hard, especially when the playing field is tilted so far against us. But I know that if you don’t fight, you can’t win – and we fought for every last vote. No matter what happens tonight, be proud of what you’ve worked for. We’re going to keep fighting every day to level the playing field for working families.

    Thank you, tonight and always, for being a part of this,

    Elizabeth

    If we fight, we will win. Don’t forget this.

  166. 166.

    Corner Stone

    @TriassicSands:

    I’ve been following politics for more than fifty years and Grimes’ refusal was among the most appalling decisions I’ve ever seen a candidate make.

    Jesus fucking Christ. Among the most appalling over the last fifity years?
    Let go of those fucking panties.

  167. 167.

    PsiFighter37

    @Cacti: I’m sure that will be crystal-clear when Manchurian candidate Tim Cotton beats Mark Pryor rather handily.

    Oh, and when one of the impeachment managers in the house (Asa Hutchinson) gets elected governor.

  168. 168.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I am currently watching Jurassic Park to avoid TV coverage. My stomach is in knots waiting for WI’s polls to close in 35 minutes.

  170. 170.

    Corner Stone

    She was always going to lose! She was ALWAYS going to lose.
    Turtle tied her hand and foot to Obama from day one.
    This is idiocy.

  171. 171.

    LookingForACanadian

    I was happy to see Dayton elected in 2010 and will hopefully be happy with tonight’s result (participated in the 2010 DFL convention and spent the 2+ hr drive home gripping the steering wheel and yelling at trees about what went down – somewhat naive about party politics, I guess).

    Grew up in the 8th and all of my family is there, fingers crossed for Nolan.

    PS – there is a most excellent NHL contest that is keeping my attention at the moment. Sorry, Cole, but your team is going down.

  175. 175.

    Cacti

    Someone should have told Tom Wolf that the public has rejected President Obama.

    Otherwise he might be governor of PA. Congrats to “Clinton Democrat” and Senator-elect Grimes from Kentucky.

  176. 176.

    Mike in NC

    @eemom: Now would be a good time to put up the “Line for bed-wetters and hand-wringers forms over here —–>” sign so that the usual BJ suspects can fall into place. Jesus H Christ.

  177. 177.

    Patrick

    @MomSense:

    My analysis…Clinton Dems better think long and hard about that run from Obama at all costs strategy before running with it.

    Amen. Some people on this thread apparently think it is not an issue. They forget that running from Obama turns off the very base that would volunteer for their party, donate and what have you.

  180. 180.

    RaflW

    @Schlemazel: Dayton is an odd duck but I think his admin is doing a decent job running the state. He’s boring and a bit awkward, and (where it matters) he appoints reasonably competent, not all that likely to be corrupt folks to his cabinet. I work for a nonprofit/coalition in state-level public policy, we deal with MnDOT, MetCouncil, DEED, MAC, MDHR and other agencies.

    I share your sense that we’ll suffer another asshat in MN-8 (Cravaak was a useless dweeb).

    I’m a bit nervous about the MN House. Always murky since who’d pay to poll those races? We’ll start to know in an hour or two…

  181. 181.

    PsiFighter37

    I will say that Turtle is (surprisingly) more gracious to Grimes in the speech than Grimes was to Turtle (she didn’t mention him at all).

  182. 182.

    socraticsilence

    @Corner Stone:

    She was the wrong candidate- this is a landslide if Beshear declare (which given he’s term-limited next year would have made more sense).

  189. 189.

    askew

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yeah, that is the kind of stuff the Clintons don’t need to hear. It will just inflate their egos even more and they’ll start bashing Obama even more than they already have. It’s going to turn off the Dem base quickly. I hope O’Malley is taking notes tonight on what’s happening. There is a real opening for him in 2016.

  191. 191.

    LAC

    @Morzer: corner stone is feeling his fourth drink. Don’t let his “fush eberbody!” slurry world view get to you. Grimes did not help herself.

  192. 192.

    PsiFighter37

    And boom – there goes Mark Pryor – called right after the close. And Hutchinson wins AR-Gov.

    Where’s that Clinton magic?! In less than 5 years, Arkansas goes from 2 Democratic senators and 3 Democratic House representatives to ZERO.

    Goodbye Arkansas – you hung around longer than most, but you’ve finally fully embraced the dark side.

  194. 194.

    hilts

    @TriassicSands:

    That’s Alison “Shit for Brains” Lundergan Grimes

    “Rep. Jim Clyburn on Tuesday said Alison Lundergan Grimes “botched” an opportunity by declining to say whether she voted for President Barack Obama… “I don’t think her [polling] numbers started to plummet until after she botched that question so significantly,” Clyburn said on Election Day morning on MSNBC… The congressman said that Grimes should have acknowledged that she voted for Obama while saying that she disagrees with him on several issues, including his policies on energy and coal. “I just think there was a way to finesse that answer and not get hoisted, the way she did, on her own petard,” he said.”

    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/2014-elections-jim-clyburn-alison-lundergan-grimes-obama-112486.html?hp=r5

    I apologize for the Politico link, but Clyburn was right and Alison “Shit for Brains” was wrong.

  195. 195.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @PsiFighter37: He’s got to polish apples for the Beltway media to keep the “if only President Obama would reach out…” gibberish going

  196. 196.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    The Virginia Board of Elections web site is still hosted on an 8088 with a 300 baud dial-up line, it seems. Every major election the site just rolls over…

    Blue Virginia is finding results to live-blog.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  197. 197.

    Corner Stone

    @raven: Turtle spent the entire fucking time bashing Obama and hanging him around ALG’s neck.
    Fuck you if you think a couple words now mean something, douche.

  198. 198.

    Schlemazel

    @LookingForACanadian:
    I grew up in politics, went to every convention from the early 60’s till ’92. First as a go-fer when old enough a delegate & I saw a lot of shit but I never felt bad about what I saw. I lost the passion when we went to FL and I have never gotten it back. What happened in 10 that got you so upset?

  203. 203.

    Brian R.

    MSNBC really knows their audience — a lengthy segment showing Mitch’s victory lap.

    Not even CNN is covering Yertle.

  204. 204.

    Morzer

    @LAC:

    Honestly, I long ago ceased to feel anything except contempt for the Corny Troll. I should have pied it months ago. Better late than never, I suppose.

  205. 205.

    eemom

    @Corner Stone:

    She was always going to lose! She was ALWAYS going to lose.
    Turtle tied her hand and foot to Obama from day one.
    This is idiocy.

    No, because the fact that she was a craven-ass coward for dissing the President MATTERS, even if it wouldn’t have made a difference to the outcome of this particular election.

  206. 206.

    RaflW

    @Corner Stone: It is bizarre, innit?

    KY went Romney by 22 points last time, but it must have been her gotcha moment that sunk her. Realism, it’s not what’s for dinner!

  209. 209.

    LookingForACanadian

    @Schlemazel: It was my second, so I can’t claim complete naïveté, but still. If I recall correctly, I was somewhat shell-shocked when one candidate told his/her delegates where to go in the concession. As soon as that happened, all was pretty much said and done. Others did not do that. I found out later that there may have been strategic reasons for this, but at the time I was livid.

    I like Dayton. He’s been good and I can’t conceive of the endorsed having done any better.

  212. 212.

    Mnemosyne

    @hilts:

    The congressman said that Grimes should have acknowledged that she voted for Obama while saying that she disagrees with him on several issues, including his policies on energy and coal.

    It’s kind of hard to argue about that advice, really. Most people understand that you have to vote for the candidate you feel is best and not the perfect candidate that you agree 100 percent with.

    I will be very curious to see what the African-American turnout was for Grimes in KY. Based on what other people are saying here, I’m guessing it was low. Self-inflicted wound.

  213. 213.

    MikeBoyScout

    @Morzer: Not sure I understand your meaning, but I sure don’t think Sen Warren (MA-Fighter) meant for anyone to gallop towards guns. Progress through democracy is hard work my friend. I’m dedicated. And I value community organizers who understand politics means fighting.
    My community in western Washington is proof of the value of hard fighting work.

  214. 214.

    KG

    Watching Sleepy Hollow from last night rather than follow election results. Once again the writers are having some fun with having Icabod going to the polls at th midterms

  215. 215.

    Corner Stone

    @eemom: Do you think for a second Obama himself would have cared about her answer/non-answer if she had ever had a shot to take Turtle down?
    Because I’m guessing he would not, and has a thicker skin than anybody talking mess about it.
    It was a gotcha question. If she had screamed at the top of her lungs that she voted for OBAMA she would not have lost by less than double digits.
    These are just facts people. Drop the BS emotional entanglement of a senate candidate from KY not playing it the way you wish all your heroes would.

  218. 218.

    Bostondreams

    Looking like Lord Voldemort is going to retain the mansion in Florida, especially since a request to hold open the polls because of problems in Brevard was denied. Dang.

  220. 220.

    PurpleGirl

    @Helen: My Congresscritter — Joseph Crowley — also ran unopposed. In the Governor’s race I voted for Howie Hawkes, Green Party. Could not vote for Cuomo, just could not. Wouldn’t vote for Astorino under any circumstances. So I went for Hawkes and the Green Party. Give them a little boost.

  222. 222.

    PsiFighter37

    Maggie Hassan holds on to the governor’s office. Not really a surprise, but that race tightened up more than expected.

    Think Shaheen will also hold on, but will be low-mid single digits.

    Still in disbelief in how a black man in the White House appears to have turned Arkansans nuts.

  224. 224.

    Mike E

    A GOS update at 8:27…

    In North Carolina, Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan may finish with a wider spread than Sen. Mark Warner in Virginia. She’s well ahead of all her benchmarks and they’re putting up serious totals now. Wake at 63, she needs 57. Mecklenburg at 66, she needs 61. Forsyth at 60, she needs 55. Buncombe at 61, she needs 57. Cumberland at 65, she needs 61.

  228. 228.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Wolf Blitzer is the dictionary illustration of Backpfeifengesicht. It’s amazing there’s an intact TV screen within 60 feet of me.

  229. 229.

    mai naem

    ABC called it for Shaheen. Great news. Just wasn’t in my bunch to be a close win in the first place.

  231. 231.

    Mike E

    @KG: I’m not lovin’ the “ripped from today’s headlines” plot line on The Good Wife, making Alicia run for state’s atty.

  232. 232.

    Elizabelle

    @eemom:

    Hey eemom.

    Better to go down fighting that appeasing. I agree that AL Grimes’ strategy of avoiding Obama — in a state that’s a poster child for ACA successful implementation, as southern states go — was awful.

    It was always going to be an uphill battle, but better to be inclusive.

    Benjamin Franklin: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

    I really believe that. Obama is “unpopular” because the media and GOP say he is, and because it’s a struggle to get anything done for the middle class with the GOP obstructing everything for their political aims.

  235. 235.

    Cervantes

    @TriassicSands:

    I’ve been following politics for more than fifty years and Grimes’ refusal was among the most appalling decisions I’ve ever seen a candidate make.

    OK, what was the next most appalling decision you’ve ever seen a candidate make?

  236. 236.

    Schlemazel

    @LookingForACanadian:
    I think it happens more often than not, when you can’t win you offer your delegates to a candidate either for some real return (some jobs some place) or ‘future considerations”. Others just turn them loose.

    I was a big supporter of Dayton & worked his senate campaign hard. He was not as big a disappointment as Klobuchar but he made a royal mess of it embarrassing himself along the way and then just quitting.Left the state & the party in a bad place.That same genial incompetence permeates his performance. Nothing terrible but nothing I can point to & say “there is a hill I would die on”. I think he makes the Republicans stronger. I phone banked for him & voted for him but I would like to have seen Mary at least get the chance. She was experienced in state politics and the legislature in ways Dayton is not and might have served us all well.

  237. 237.

    socraticsilence

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    She was the best candidate of the available options, if the sitting Governor doesn’t simply want to retire (which as noted by a previous poster is a distinct possibility) his opting out is puzzling given he’s arguably the most popular gov in America.

  238. 238.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL:

    That was Perdue’s tactic. It was probably the tactic throughout the South.

    It was the tactic in every state. The R’s nationalized the elections and made them all about Obama. That’s just what happened, because that’s how this kind of thing goes.

  239. 239.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @mai naem: @RaflW: Cool. I could see a state that not long ago sent Bob Smith to the Senate being tough for a Dem, but ideology aside, that halfwit carpet bagger winning would have just been embarrassing for all of us.

    Did Bloomberg support Scottie in this round?

  243. 243.

    PsiFighter37

    MSNBC hasn’t called NH-Sen yet, but that’s very good news if others are already calling it for Shaheen. Hopefully means good news for Shea-Porter (and, to a lesser extent because she’s safer, Kuster).

  244. 244.

    Corner Stone

    @Elizabelle:

    in a state that’s a poster child for ACA successful implementation, as southern states go

    But that state did not successfully implement ACA. It put Kynect in place.
    Did no one else see where people at about 70% hated Obamacare, but overwhelmingly loved all the things about Kynect?
    Ok, wevs.

  245. 245.

    MikeBoyScout

    BREAKING: Ebola epidemic in New Hampshire did not incapacitate enough voters for Scott Carpetbagging Brown to pull of the upset

  247. 247.

    Helen

    @PurpleGirl: I left the Governor’s race blank. Almost went Green, but I knew nothing about the candidate. Also left State Assembly blank. I have Hevasi issues. Really, I went to the polls to vote for all the ballot measures. They were important.

  248. 248.

    RaflW

    @Schlemazel:

    He was not as big a disappointment as Klobuchar…

    No kidding. She’s likely to be senator-for-life for MN, and be nothing but a smiling, parade waving nothingburger in the Senate. As long as our Jr. Senator is an actual progressive, I suppose the centrist lumpen of Minnesota can be happy with her.

    How she gets the love from so many Dems baffles me. Hearing McFadden cosy up to her in the last Franken debate made me want to scream.

  249. 249.

    Patrick

    @Elizabelle:

    It was always going to be an uphill battle, but better to be inclusive.

    Benjamin Franklin: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

    Amen to that. Her comments also impacted the morale of Dems outside KY. It shouldn’t have been that difficult to answer that question a better way. She may still have lost. But at least she wouldn’t have played in the GOP narrative that everybody hates Obama and thus let’s vote GOP everywhere. Paul Wellstone comes to mind. He never apologized for his beliefs.

  251. 251.

    LookingForACanadian

    @Schlemazel: Understood. I actually think it’s the opposite of making the Rs stronger. I’ve largely checked out compared to previous cycles (partly because I’m uber (some-say-over) regulated due to my job), but I just don’t see the animosity you might see with a party-endorsed candidate. I realize that might be a bit contrarian, but there you have it.

  252. 252.

    Hal

    Can we have an open thread focused on what state Scott Brown runs for next? Maybe when McCain retires he can run in AZ since they are BFFs. Rachel Maddow must be thrilled BTW.

    In all seriousness, can Brown be put out to pasture now? This is his second loss in as many years and states. I’m sure Chuck Todd will find some silver lining for him though.

  254. 254.

    Gin & Tonic

    Not that there’s much suspense here in RI, but with 15% in, every statewide office, both HR seats and the Senate seat are going to D’s. More importantly, every bond issue that I cared about is showing solid approval, and the proposal for a constitutional convention is going down to defeat.

    Senator Jack Reed is leading 70-30 at this point; that’s about what I expected his margin to be.

  257. 257.

    PaulW

    Bondi f-cking won, Amendment 2 is looking like it’ll miss the 60 percent cutoff, for some GODFORSAKEN REASON SCOTT IS LEADING CRIST RIGHT NOW… the Senate is looking like it’ll slip to the Republicans. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU VOTERS…

  261. 261.

    Brian R.

    @hilts:

    Not soon enough.

    But they need to push Ed Schultz, a.k.a. Liberal Limbaugh out first.

    Wait, sorry — Morning Joke needs to go. How the fuck is that still a thing?

  262. 262.

    raven

    From Athens:

    ACC Election Supervisor Gail Schrader said it feels like a presidential year, not a midterm, with the phone ringing off the hook and people who mistakenly thought they could vote at the Board of Elections today lined up out the door. (Staff looked up their polling places for them.) She’s exhausted. “It feels like turnout was 100 percent,” she said. “That’s what it feels like.”

  264. 264.

    Mike J

    @PaulW:

    for some GODFORSAKEN REASON SCOTT IS LEADING CRIST RIGHT NOW

    Cities (where Dems live) always come in later than the sticks.

  265. 265.

    Betty Cracker

    @askew: Have you listened to O’Malley on the stump lately? He’s running to the left of Obama like a grizzly is on his ass.

  266. 266.

    JPL

    Grimes might have picked up some vote by showing what the Kynect website would like under McConnell.

  268. 268.

    PsiFighter37

    @PaulW: That’s yer Florida Democratic Party for ya!

    How do you lose to an asshole who was in charge when the largest Medicaid fraud in history occurred?

  271. 271.

    Schlemazel

    @RaflW:
    I was calling her office often the first couple of years after she got elected. I had busted my ass working for her, donated more money than I should have. She voted too often with Boy Blunder’s work, sided with the goopers on important issues. Her office lied to me several times about her vote, I finally asked one “Do you think the votes are not public record? Do you think I am so stupid as to not be able to read the official record to know how she voted?”

    At that time we had two empty suits, gooper, Rove butt-boy, Coleman and her. I would drag myself across ebola infected broken glass to keep Al in the Senate, not just because he beat Coleman but because we have one decent Senator from the state of Humphrey and Wellstone.

  274. 274.

    Morzer

    @Hal:

    I still say Scott Brown is going to discover that Joisey is his true home state, while praying for Chris Christie to redistribute himself over Bergen county as a shower of self-destructing dung.

  277. 277.

    Morzer

    @James E Powell:

    Eh, it’s still early. The hicks have voted for the great Embezzler, now the cities will have their say and flush him out of the system for good.

  278. 278.

    JPL

    @Morzer:He’s moving to VA .. His wife worked at a DC new station so it’s a perfect fit. Although there’s Maryland, too. Maybe he’ll test the waters.

  280. 280.

    Mike in NC

    @PsiFighter37: Dude, ever been to Arkansas? I had to drive through it when the Navy transferred me from San Diego to Norfolk in ’82. I did not want to even stop for gas.

  281. 281.

    hilts

    @Brian R.:

    Maybe MSNBC should just fire the whole fucking lot of them and go back to the drawing board.

    By the way, I’ve never seen anyone here say anything about Joe Kernen on CNBC. As far as I’m concerned, he’s just as big of an asshole as Morning Blow Scarborough.

  283. 283.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Let’s not gnash our teeth over states where the votes are still being counted. There is often back and forth as regional results come in.

    It is after 8pm CST. Polls are closed in WI.

  284. 284.

    Chat Noir

    @Helen: Good deal. I donated quite a bit to his 2008 campaign but didn’t have the funds to contribute this time. Glad he’s been re-elected.

    ETA: And Kos says that CNN calls MI for Gary Peters!

  285. 285.

    max

    @Betty Cracker: Have you listened to O’Malley on the stump lately? He’s running to the left of Obama like a grizzly is on his ass.

    Well, hot damn. Somebody has too.

    @PsiFighter37: How do you lose to an asshole who was in charge when the largest Medicaid fraud in history occurred?

    Chill. Crist hasn’t lost by any means, yet.

    max
    [‘The big counties in the south are still counting.’]

  287. 287.

    Morzer

    @JPL:

    I just think the smirking asshole routine that Scottie the Nomad perfected over the last couple of losing races would fit Christieland much better.

  289. 289.

    sharl

    Just checked in on Ohio, my old home state. Pretty much the expected bad news in the major statewide races, as Kay has been informing us. Kasich wins re-election as Governor, thanks in large part to the self-destruction of his Democratic challenger.

    Nina Turner lost to incumbent Jon Husted for Secretary of State, which saddens me, since she worked her tail off campaigning for that office, and if you know of some of Husted’s shenanigans, and those of earlier SoS Ken Blackwell (during the Bush years), you know how important that office can be.

    Oh well… Courage, Kay!

  291. 291.

    MikeBoyScout

    @Morzer: I don’t know if “we” fought in KY. I was an early contributor, but had no desire to pour more money in after she could not find a way to support (even some of) the policies of our president.

    Did you fight in KY? What did you do?

  293. 293.

    Mary G

    For my sins, I was gerrymandering into Daryl Issa’s district and the very first time I saw his Democrat opponent’s name was on the ballot. Lame.

    Just got back from a long visit to the orthopedic office. My X-rays look “perfect” and I should have a full recovery, which he hadn’t been expecting because of the severity of the break and all the damage from RA that was there. So yay.

    I share a TV in my new room and her daughter has CNN on. Can Wolf Blitzer ever speak in a normal tone of voice? Time to plug in my earphones and listen to an audiobook.

  295. 295.

    RaflW

    @Schlemazel: A friend who does organizing work and I would go meet with Klobuchar’s staff on things. They’d always hedge. Always.

    At some point, after we’d leave a meeting, she’s start singing (to the Elton tune…) “You live your life like a finger in the wind.”

    We don’t bother to meet with her staff any more.

  299. 299.

    mai naem

    @hilts: You obviously haven’t seen my comments about Kernen. I seriously think he’s angling for a job at FBN like his pal Maria Antoinette Bartiromo. He’s a huge climate denier and a douchebag. They had Krugman on several months ago and he just kept on hammering Krugman about “so how much taxes is enough, so how much taxes is enough” Would not stop. Just rude. And Becky Quick is just about as bad. Kernen’s twitter feed is funny – he just disses somebody because they don’t have thousands of twitter followers. Like really dude, everybody has a teevee show and column and crap? Asshole.

  300. 300.

    Morzer

    @MikeBoyScout:

    I was moving across the ocean to Korea. Nonetheless, my point stands – fighting without a clear, effective strategy loses more than it wins. Fight smart or go home.

  301. 301.

    Schlemazel

    @Bostondreams:
    When I lived there Brevard was not a bastion of liberal voters, has that changed?

    The first election I suffered through in FL there were some close races. The TV station said they were unable to report results from Brevard because several precinct vote bags “disappeared”. Early the next morning they showed up & the votes were counted. I assumed there would be some big investigation and some controversy but nope, just business as usual in Florida. That aside I think it was a majority GOP county.

  303. 303.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Mary G: Kinda opposite here. I literally just learned the name of the R opponent in my CD by looking at the RI Board of Elections web site. It’s a name I have truly never seen before.

  304. 304.

    mai naem

    @Mike in NC: I want him to go up against Chuck Schumer who’ll just slice and dice him before he knows what happened to him. Please, decide to make NY your next hunting ground for a senate seat Cosmo boy.

  305. 305.

    JPL

    @Mike in NC: We rented cabins in Arkansas with other friends for Thanksgiving. My now ex asked if they sold beer at a gas station. When he went to use his card the owner reported to the card company,he thought the credit card was stolen. Here we are two families, six kids and the owner is questioning whether or not we stole the credit card we were using. The bank asked to talked to my husband and asked if we were okay. They were going to call the police on the gas station owners. It was solid democrat back then.

  306. 306.

    PaulW

    @PsiFighter37:

    How do you lose to an asshole who was in charge when the largest Medicaid fraud in history occurred?

    Because said asshole plays to the paranoia and partisan hate of the voting base in Florida. he beat out an established conservative in the 2010 primary by pandering to the Tea Party rage voters.

    But making it worse is the poor voter turnout. There’s 4.6 million registered Dems in the state (also 4.1 million Republicans), and yet we’re barely seeing half those numbers show up (both candidates in the 2.5 million vote counts right now). There is a shitload of voters – mostly moderates in both parties who get pissed off at the mudslinging – who tune out and don’t vote… and that’s not even considering the NPA voters in the 3 million count range and how they split off. There’s 11 million registered voters in Florida and yet we’re seeing total turnout in the 5 million range (AGAIN). We’ve got like 6 million people WHO DON’T VOTE… and this is out of 18 million total residents. WE ARE ROYALLY SCREWED BECAUSE OF POOR TURNOUT.

  308. 308.

    Schlemazel

    @RaflW:
    Thanks for the best laugh I have had in a few weeks! I wish I could carry a tune I would sing that song. Its sad that she will be comfortably in that seat till she dies or the goopers find a crack in her plastic walls.

  309. 309.

    Morzer

    @MikeBoyScout:

    Why, sir, I served with George Washington and then transferred to the Abe Lincoln Volunteer Brigade. It was difficult while moving my household and possessions to Korea, but I am a man of many talents and unusually long limbs.

  310. 310.

    MikeBoyScout

    @Morzer: I get it. You didn’t show. No worries. Maybe in the future you’ll temper your criticism of others efforts based upon what you can contribute.

    Re: moving, that’s an excuse. I know cuz I’ve moved quite a bit too, but made it a point to ride in the battle.

  312. 312.

    Helen

    @mai naem: OH, we in NY wish. Imagine the fun. But I say to this the same thing I say to those who say Sarah Palin will run for President “The little baby Jesus, does not love me that much”

  314. 314.

    Morzer

    @MikeBoyScout:

    Looks like you don’t handle discussion of your pet slogans too well. Might want to work on that temper of yours too, son.

    Just so you know, Liz Warren was my Senator and I worked my ass off getting her elected.

    You may now return to telling the world about the merits of boysenberry pie. No, really, I insist.

  316. 316.

    hilts

    @mai naem:

    You’re right, I missed your comments about Joe Kernen. I remember reading about all the bullshit that Krugman had to deal with when he appeared on Squawk Box.

    Somewhere I read that Roger Ailes explained his decision to create the Fox Business Network by claiming that CNBC was not sufficiently pro-business. Just shows you how delusional Ailes is, if he actually believes that.

  319. 319.

    Howard Beale IV

    In the Kansas Governors race, looks like Koch sucker’s own Brownback is going down.

  320. 320.

    mai naem

    @Hal: Why do you have to pick Arizona? You think its not enough that we have Jan Brewski as our governator and John”BombBombBomb” McCain as our Senator and,oh, yeah, one of our Dem Reps was shot in the head? Scott Brown can damn well go to Alaska and party with the Palin Klan.

  322. 322.

    MikeBoyScout

    @leeleeFL: tru dat. Forgot to mention that Seattle raised the minimum wage to $15/hr, thanks to the efforts of the Socialist city council person, Kshama Sawant.

  324. 324.

    PaulW

    Scott at 2.727 million votes, Crist at 2.633 million votes. there’s still about 120k vote difference. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH FLORIDA. /cries

  326. 326.

    hilts

    @Howard Beale IV:

    Gotta love Sam Brownback’s wonderful word salad. He must have had lessons from Sarah Palin.

    “The things we’re doing are not anything new. Going to, getting your incomes taxes down, we got nine states without an income tax. That’s not new. So nothing we’re doing is new. Now it’s new that we’re doing it but nothing that we’re doing is different than what’s done before.”

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/whats-matter-kansas-unprecedented-political-races-leave-republican-candidates-peril

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