Elections: the fat lady may have sung, but the curtain hasn't come down yet
There are still nine House races yet to be decided. Many seem to be leaning R at the moment, but if the Democrat who's ahead in the Georgia 12th goes on to win, Republicans will have officially made no pick-ups this year.
You may have heard about the Florida 13th... it was Katherine Harris' old district, which makes it particularly fitting that voting machines in the Democratic-leaning precincts under-registered votes for Congress to the tune of 18,000 votes... but just in that one race. People couldn't find the race, even when they were looking for it, or they couldn't make their votes register.
Poll workers confirm that there was particular trouble with votes registering in this race. Video of the recount, where you can hear them listing off a couple undervote tallies on the same order of magnitude as what either candidate got. And the Democratic candidate, Christine Jennings, is asking the state to secure the machines for her legal team to examine. (Although as we all know, voting machines are designed so that a virus can steal votes, without any trace.)
According to Kos, Jennings and the DCCC may sue for a new election. I hope they do. Just because we won anyway, doesn't mean electronic fraud didn't take place. We gotta stamp out this touchscreen voting, Diebold/ES&S nonsense, because next time we may not have the momentum to overcome their dirty tricks.
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Meanwhile...
+ The Dem has taken the CT 2nd race in the recount. That brings our pick-ups in the House to 30.
+ Rahm Emmanuel is a punk:
Despite all the praise being heaped upon Rahm Emanuel for the Democratic Party takeover of the House of Representatives, his strategy was a failure. The simple fact is that Emanuel's plan was to target 21 Republican seats as part of his Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Red to Blue" strategy, and as of right now, while Democrats needed to take 15 seats to regain control, only nine of those 21 DCCC picked seats have changed hands (three are still in contention). Most of these candidates were "hand-picked" by Emanuel, based on his perception of their prospects to win election---and most of them failed, often by significant margins-- and at great financial cost.
Ouch! That's gotta sting. And how come, in the last week, no one in the mainstream media has done this math? A silly question, I know... they can't go giving credit to bloggers and the unwashed masses! Why, we're not even a little bit under the sway of corporate lobbyists! Eek!
+ The Democrats' win means it's likely Net Neutrality will become law.
+ An insider tells us what went right, and wrong, for the Lamont campaign in the general election.
+ George Clooney is hot.
You may have heard about the Florida 13th... it was Katherine Harris' old district, which makes it particularly fitting that voting machines in the Democratic-leaning precincts under-registered votes for Congress to the tune of 18,000 votes... but just in that one race. People couldn't find the race, even when they were looking for it, or they couldn't make their votes register.
Poll workers confirm that there was particular trouble with votes registering in this race. Video of the recount, where you can hear them listing off a couple undervote tallies on the same order of magnitude as what either candidate got. And the Democratic candidate, Christine Jennings, is asking the state to secure the machines for her legal team to examine. (Although as we all know, voting machines are designed so that a virus can steal votes, without any trace.)
According to Kos, Jennings and the DCCC may sue for a new election. I hope they do. Just because we won anyway, doesn't mean electronic fraud didn't take place. We gotta stamp out this touchscreen voting, Diebold/ES&S nonsense, because next time we may not have the momentum to overcome their dirty tricks.
**
Meanwhile...
+ The Dem has taken the CT 2nd race in the recount. That brings our pick-ups in the House to 30.
+ Rahm Emmanuel is a punk:
Despite all the praise being heaped upon Rahm Emanuel for the Democratic Party takeover of the House of Representatives, his strategy was a failure. The simple fact is that Emanuel's plan was to target 21 Republican seats as part of his Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Red to Blue" strategy, and as of right now, while Democrats needed to take 15 seats to regain control, only nine of those 21 DCCC picked seats have changed hands (three are still in contention). Most of these candidates were "hand-picked" by Emanuel, based on his perception of their prospects to win election---and most of them failed, often by significant margins-- and at great financial cost.
Ouch! That's gotta sting. And how come, in the last week, no one in the mainstream media has done this math? A silly question, I know... they can't go giving credit to bloggers and the unwashed masses! Why, we're not even a little bit under the sway of corporate lobbyists! Eek!
+ The Democrats' win means it's likely Net Neutrality will become law.
+ An insider tells us what went right, and wrong, for the Lamont campaign in the general election.
+ George Clooney is hot.