*Official Election 2005 Results Thread*

[Jake]

Um, could someone point me to results for these races. I don't feel like paging through what looks like a 28 page bitchfest.

[Jake]

Looks like a solid ass whooping all around. I'll give props to Kaine for coming back over the past month. Hopefully, he'll be Warner rather than Kaine the next four years. On Corzine, I really hope New Jersey slides deeper into the hole they're in. Thank god Detroit's voted that piece of slime out of office. As an aside, Doherty has declared victory in Scranton with 57%.

[Jake]

None of the precincts in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been reported yet. All of these propositions are going to be defeated.

Gore vs. Bush 2004

Honestly, I don't think it would have even been close. Instead of the election being about Kerry and gay marriage, it would have been about the poor state of the economy compared to the late 90s, and the war in Iraq. I think we would have seen a very surprising landslide much like 1980:

Good calls on both

[Jake]

Does anyone know what happened in San Diego for the mayoral race?

Sanders is beating Frye about 59-40 with 10% counted. Last count I've seen was an hour ago

CA-48 is in December

[Jake]

Simple effect of 32 years of lies and deceptions Ebowed.

[Jake]

Kaine's victory backs up the argument that VA is probably the southern state, excluding Florida, that's most likely to go to the Democrats in the '08 presidential election.

How so? Warner's victory in 2001 and further successes and high approval ratings still kept Virginia solidly Republican on both the state, national, and presidential levels. Winning one of three elections this time around, combined with zero of two Senate seats, puts you nowhere near winning Virginia, except with the current Governor at the top of the ticket.