Every election day is bittersweet. It's inconceivable that all the races I care about would go my way, but tonight I'm happy enough with the ones that did
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Lieberman still votes with Democrats on a majority of partisan-split bills, doesn't he? I don't expect that he would join in Republican filibusters on many non-Iraq things. Though I guess I don't know the context of his "end of America" comment.
Also, I don't think that many votes in Georgia are missing. Looking at the 2004 and 2008 results, I see that the vote totals in both President and Senate races increased by about 400,000. The claims of 600,000 missing votes would suggest that they expect an increase of 1,000,000 voters. That's possible I suppose, though it seems a little bold to me. At any rate, that's definitely not a majority of votes. But I do hope it's enough to force Chambliss into a runoff, regardless of what anyone might say about the 60 target
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I think that the Democrats will almost always be able to find a handful of non-Democrats who aren't willing to filibuster, and that's all that's necessary. On many issues, Lieberman will be one of those.
I have no clue about what's going on in Georgia now. I don't think many other people do either. I've noted that fivethirtyeight.com has held out on calling states for one candidate until they are called by all news networks, and they're still holding out on Georgia. I also have no clue what Alaska is thinking, but that's been the case for a while.
Unfortunately it looks like Franken lost after all (by a very small margin). And it looks like Gay Marriage was banned in California, which is really disappointing.
I thought the Senate pick ups in Oregon and Alaska were in the bag - I wonder if West Coast democrats saw Obama won and didn't go out to the polls? The timing doesn't quite work for that though.
I know this is historic, and important, and that the whole world can breath again in relief... yet I cannot bring myself to celebrate. Bachmann and California's prop 8 have me in a state of mourning. I want to grab religion and kick it in the balls.
The suburbs of Long Island, Westchester County, and maybe Rockland County *tend* to vote Republican. These counties are not full of "dairy farming towns." They didn't occur this time, which helps explain why the Senate flipped. Although some of those farming town counties further north did vote for Obama.
I believe that New York recognizes gay marriages from other states, courtesy of Governor Paterson. New York does not license gay marriages.
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Also, I don't think that many votes in Georgia are missing. Looking at the 2004 and 2008 results, I see that the vote totals in both President and Senate races increased by about 400,000. The claims of 600,000 missing votes would suggest that they expect an increase of 1,000,000 voters. That's possible I suppose, though it seems a little bold to me. At any rate, that's definitely not a majority of votes. But I do hope it's enough to force Chambliss into a runoff, regardless of what anyone might say about the 60 target ( ... )
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I think that the Democrats will almost always be able to find a handful of non-Democrats who aren't willing to filibuster, and that's all that's necessary. On many issues, Lieberman will be one of those.
I have no clue about what's going on in Georgia now. I don't think many other people do either. I've noted that fivethirtyeight.com has held out on calling states for one candidate until they are called by all news networks, and they're still holding out on Georgia. I also have no clue what Alaska is thinking, but that's been the case for a while.
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I thought the Senate pick ups in Oregon and Alaska were in the bag - I wonder if West Coast democrats saw Obama won and didn't go out to the polls? The timing doesn't quite work for that though.
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I believe that New York recognizes gay marriages from other states, courtesy of Governor Paterson. New York does not license gay marriages.
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