Nearly 65% think Barack Obama would be better suited than Mitt Romney to handle an alien invasion.

National Geographic, via USA Today.

You know it's bad when you've lost the H.G. Wells crowd.

(this polling was done in late June, still it's hard to imagine Romney's image on this having improved since then, especially after today's events)

And it really is over.

Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner...

Nice guy that he is

Miller has not ( Read more... )

You thought it was over long ago, didn't you, and I had just forgotten to let you know. But you were wrong. Because Alaska's Joe Miller has been pursuing his absurd case against the winner, Lisa Murkowski, and the Alaskan Election Commission through the Alaskan courts since the election ( Read more... )

It looks like it's finally all over but the official certifications and concession speeches. Despite my pessimism a week or so again, Kamela Harris (D) will win the Attorney General's race over Steve Cooley (R). She's currently leading the vote count by more than 40,000 votes and her lead keep climbing as more votes are tallied. No analysis I've ( Read more... )

Now we know why Mitt Romney will never be President.

Eric Fehrnstrom, a Massachusetts GOP strategist and adviser to former Gov. Mitt Romney, explained that the problem for the GOP ((in MA and CA)) runs deeper than a single election cycle ( Read more... )

There are still nine undecided (uncalled) races. The current tally, according to the NY Times is ( Read more... )

Of the 80 State Assembly races, there was exactly one race that was close (within 5%).  Not a single incumbent lost ( Read more... )

Currently we're at

50-46-2-0 (Democrats, Republicans, Democratic-caucusing Independents, Republican-caucusing independents)

and looking more and more likely to end up

51-46-2-1

or, more conventionally

53-47.

Update: Dino Rossi, Republican candidate for Washington Senate, just conceded ( Read more... )

Cannabis got more votes than Meg Whitman!

-- Random DKos blogger

It looks like Bennet (D-Colorado) will eventually be declared the winner. As far as anyone can tell, all the outstanding vote is in D-leaning counties and he is already ahead by a small amount ( Read more... )