Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The willow is too close to the house.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

This really is a full service blog.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Second rate reporter says what?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Come on, man.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Peak wingnut was a lie.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I really should read my own blog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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More Nail-Biting Results-Watching Open Thread

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‘Tire rims & anthrax’ watch:

Adam — who lives there, remember — says both the Senate and gubernatorial races will be going to mandatory recounts. Hopefully under adult supervision.

Also on the plus side:

No matter what the final tally, we need to get a new, comprehensive, nation-wide Voting Rights Act in place… yesterday!

Silver lining side, all those new young (would-be) voters are seeing, in real time, just how important participating at *all* levels of government is…

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  4. 4.

    guachi

    WI-01 called. Ironstache lost by 15. I feel for candidates who put months and months into their campaigns and come up short.

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    @guachi:

    WI-01 called. Ironstache lost by 15. I feel for candidates who put months and months into their campaigns and come up short.

    Losing by 15 is not coming up short; it’s getting curb-stomped. I somehow had the impression that was going to be a close one. What happened?

  12. 12.

    guachi

    Luria just shot way ahead in VA-02. Spanberger also up strongly in VA-07. Well, 2,000 votes with 97.4% reporting.

  13. 13.

    Mary G

    Kris Kobach was described to me by a very smart Republican as the "worst gubernatorial candidate I've ever watched." He basically refused to discuss education or health care — the two top issues for Kansas voters — because of his fixation on immigration and voting laws. #KSGOV— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) November 7, 2018

  15. 15.

    MazeDancer

    For unknown reasons there was a debate on line about whether or not Elaine Luria won.

    She won.

    Very excited.

    Doesn’t make up for Beto and Heidi losing. But still good news.

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    Other than my own races, Arizona Senate and CD-9, my heart is all in for Beto. Come on, Beto. I adore you.

  21. 21.

    bluehill

    Wonder which Mittens will show up in the Senate for Utah. He could be the next Flake or Corker, but upside would be McCain.

  24. 24.

    Rex

    TX called for Cruz on NBC. Very strange…they had just started with a reporter at Cruz or Beto HQ to talk about surprisingly strong Beto showing in Harris County; then abruptly pre-empted to call race for Cruz. Really bizarre.

  26. 26.

    MobiusKlein

    I have a great idea:
    National standards for polling place times, for how many polling devices per likely voter, for how security of the ballot works, and about 20 other things too.

    The waiting in line for hours is B.S. for a rich and powerful nation.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @bluehill: He could be the next Flake or Corker, but upside would be McCain.
    I think he’ll be Flake, lots of sad face and no votes. He has to keep the trump base friendly for the dream of the Mormon Kennedys

  35. 35.

    japa21

    Does look like a probable pickup in IA-03. Not King’s district. That race is neck and neck but way early.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I gave quite a bit of money to candidates who, it looks like, are gonna come up short.

    I don’t regret a dime of it.

  45. 45.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Menendez kept his seat. We apparently like our maybe crooks too. Watch Trumpov and Lindsay go after him again.

  46. 46.

    MobiusKlein

    @MazeDancer: Silly MazeDancer, in California, we fund our polling places such that lines are not stupid like in certain (ugh, Jehovah strike me down for I blaspheme) dumbfuckistan places in flyover country.

  49. 49.

    bluehill

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, probably won’t matter now, but looks like Rs will pick up seats in the senate so Mitt can cast meaningless votes and still look mavericky. But house good. Need those g-ships though.

  50. 50.

    Baud

    While tonight won’t be as dominating as we would have liked, my hope is that this wakes up the still unwoken for 2020.

  52. 52.

    JWR

    @Baud:

    Beto should be proud but he was never ahead in any poll ever.

    Damn straight. But there’s always hope, because it seems to have been a Beto/Cruz flip-flop all evening. (By the way, PBS called WV for the R an hour ago, only to re-call it for Manchin.)

  53. 53.

    japa21

    King is down in IA. Not many votes counted but I just like saying King is down. Hope it stays that way.

  54. 54.

    JGabriel

    @Major Major Major Major:

    @JGabriel: that model was behaving very very strangely tonight.

    Nate says he re-calibrated the model to more ‘conservative’ settings – i.e., he made it a little less over-fluctuating in response to incoming data.

  55. 55.

    Mary G

    Chris Murphy cruised to victory in Connecticut. He was my first monthly donation, because he was one of the few candidates I didn’t unsubscribe to after the 2012 election. When I first started giving to him, he had a huge NRA target on his back for his refusal to forget the six-year-olds and teachers killed at Sandy Hook. What a difference 15 months have made.

  56. 56.

    Steve in the ATL

    @MazeDancer: how about those of us not voting but just eating dinner in California? Do we have to wait in line too? I’m hoping this founder wasn’t caught in the Salton Sea earlier today.

    Just how catching up on the news. Sounds like the senate is going as badly as expected but the house is going to be ok.

  62. 62.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    538.com’s Real-Time Forecast has us back up to a near 90% chance of taking the House.

    And an average gain in the modeling of +33D.

    Pretty close to forecast.

    538 had forecasted +36 seats and Harry Enten had forecasted +32

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lgerard: I think trump likes nothing better than humiliating Republicans who ever criticized. trump will go out of his way to make Mitt grovel in public. “How’s your boy, Mitt? Is he planning on running for office? Isn’t that interesting….”

  68. 68.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @bluehill: Mitts is a big fat opportunistic coward and a POS. He won’t even pull a Flake unless it’s totally focus group tested

  71. 71.

    Suzanne

    @WaterGirl: I always ought Beto was a long shot, but he is definitely the one candidate that I felt the most excited about. And not just because he’s adorable.

  73. 73.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @WaterGirl: In 40 polls spanning the past year he only ever led in one.

    the silver lining: he is now free to run for president in 2020.

  81. 81.

    Ohio Mom

    @WaterGirl: Nope on Cordray et al but Sherrod Brown was re-elected. How the same people who consistently vote for Sherrod can also consistently vote for Republicans, I don’t get.

  84. 84.

    joel hanes

    @James E Powell:

    Ironstache turned out not to be a very good candidate.

    He had a good first story, but never got beyond the “who I am” thing.
    His campaign was an amateur effort.
    Turns out that politicians need certain career skills,
    which are different from the requirements for ironworkers.

    I gave him far more money that I want to admit, early on, but nothing I saw from him later made me hopeful.

  85. 85.

    tobie

    @Mary G: I feel like Chris Murphy has played the role of the moral center of the Democrats in the Senate. It could be because of his passion for gun control after Sandy Hook but I also felt he was an incredibly strong and honest voice when drumming up popular opposition to the the Republican effort at Obamacare repeal. In the past six months, I’ve noticed that he’s been the first to point out what we or our allies are doing in the Middle East. A firebrand he’s not, but he has authenticity on his side.

  86. 86.

    Redshift

    With our various “firsts” tonight, I’m reminded of a quote (WaPo columnist, maybe) about last year’s Virginia elections, which went something like this:

    “The House of Delegates now looks more like Virginia. On second thought, actually the Democrats look almost exactly like Virginia, and the Republicans are almost entirely a party of old white men.”

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