Still waiting:
…for a few things to be resolved, elections wise.
The Presidential vote in Missouri and the 2d Congressional district of Nebraska. The former leads a very narrowly for McCain and the latter for Obama. This would be the first time that the kinky division of electoral votes by Congressional district (which only figures in Maine and Nebraska) comes around for a division from the rest of the state.
Missouri (vote totals link) is separated by about 6000 votes out of 3 million cast. My *guess* is that it will go to McCain, but it’s hard to say.
Also waiting on the Senate votes for Alaska, Minnesota and Georgia. Minnesota (link to the actual count) is going to go for a recount (only 200+ votes out of 3 million cast separate the R and the D), and there’s been scanner problems and some other irregularities. After being an election judge this year, I saw enough goofy people with ballot problems to realize that spoiled ballots are more common than you’d think.
Alaska and Georgia concern me.
The polls before the election in Alaska showed Stevens and Young going down, due to their legal problems, in a big way. All of a sudden, they pulled it out at the last second and won? I dunno. There’s a lot of discussion in the news / blogs on this, and they note the huge number of ‘provisional’ uncounted ballots, et cetera. Basically, either all the pollsters were totally off, or the GOP in Alaska is corrupt (which we knew) and monkeyed with the votes. If they did, I’d fry their asses.
Georgia - well, something similar to that. I’m digging for details. It’s going to go to a runoff in December, and I expect that the major parties will pull out all the stops for that one.