Senate Results thread

[Gabu]

Okay, I have a question about these CNN exit polls.  Am I going insane, or is it the case that, as results come in, they're changing to bring them closer to the expected outcome?  I could swear that Allen's performance among men and women has gone up since the exit poll first went up.

Something weird is going on with these exit polls.  The exact same thing happened in 2004, if I recall correctly.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

How is that possible?

91% - 30,000 votes and the Democratic strongholds haven't come in yet?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Office: U.S. Senate

 
Precincts Reporting: 2277 of 2443 (93.21%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,687   Total Voting: 2,134,818   Voter Turnout: 46.86 % 
 Candidates  Party Vote Totals Percentage
  G F Allen  Republican 1,063,772 49.83%
  J H Webb Jr  Democratic 1,045,345 48.97%
  G G Parker  Independent Green 23,609 1.11%
  Write Ins    2,092 0.10%
 View Results by  District   Locality  Total:    2,134,818   

[Bacon King]

Webb's just made it up to 49%.

[Umengus]

my (hasardous) extrapolation show that allen should have to win by small

[Inmate Trump]

Very early results from Arizona have Pederson ahead.

(Hey, I can dream?)

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I am about to leave for a Democrats abroad party.... hmmmm

[Gustaf]

11 000 for Allen now. 6% left.

[Gabu]

Burns with a STUNNING 13% lead!

...with ~1000 votes counted...

[opebo]

Talent has a big lead in MO with 27% reported, but there's been absolutely nothing from Kansas City and only 1% from St. Louis yet.

Yeah I don't think this actually looks all that great for Talent - mostly rural counties counted, plus 45% of St. Charles.  He's not even ahead in St. Charles that much.  He needs a huge lead everywhere else to surmount the cities and St.Louis county.

[Bacon King]

Webb's within half a percent now.

[Eraserhead]

How the hell is Pederson leading? Its awesome.

[Gabu]

How the hell is Pederson leading? Its awesome.

You know what would be great?  If Allen won but then Pederson won to give Democrats the Senate.

...

HAHAHAHA

Okay, back to reality...

[Umengus]

11 000 for Allen now. 6% left.

arlington reported. it's the problem with cnn: why cnn doesn't report arlington votes in his result? don't know...

[sethm0]

  All Democrats and fair minded people across the world,

      Begin hating the Green Party now. Un-fickin-believable.

   G F Allen     Republican    1,093,704    49.67%
  J H Webb Jr     Democratic    1,081,706    49.13%
  G G Parker     Independent Green    24,313    1.10%
  Write Ins          2,181    0.10%
 View Results by  District   Locality    Total:    2,201,904   

[Eraserhead]

The VA race is headed for the courts no matter who gets slightly more votes.

[Frodo]

There's still 108 precincts in Virginia left to count.....   

[tulip]

How the hell is Pederson leading? Its awesome.

He's a little behind now but it sure would be cool if he won!

[Bacon King]

  All Democrats and fair minded people across the world,

      Begin hating the Green Party now. Un-fickin-believable.

   G F Allen     Republican    1,093,704    49.67%
  J H Webb Jr     Democratic    1,081,706    49.13%
  G G Parker     Independent Green    24,313    1.10%
  Write Ins          2,181    0.10%
 View Results by  District   Locality    Total:    2,201,904   

You can't just assume those people would have voted for the Democrat, if there wasn't a Green candidate running. I'm actually betting most of them wouldn't have voted.

[Inverted Things]

  All Democrats and fair minded people across the world,

      Begin hating the Green Party now. Un-fickin-believable.

   G F Allen     Republican    1,093,704    49.67%
  J H Webb Jr     Democratic    1,081,706    49.13%
  G G Parker     Independent Green    24,313    1.10%
  Write Ins          2,181    0.10%
 View Results by  District   Locality    Total:    2,201,904   

You can't just assume those people would have voted for the Democrat, if there wasn't a Green candidate running. I'm actually betting most of them wouldn't have voted.

Exactly. I voted Pentel (Green) for MN governor. If he wasn't on the ballot, I still wouldn't have voted for Hatch (or Pawlenty).

[Frodo]

Voter turnout for the Virginia Senate race, BTW, is at 48.4% -that's pretty damn high. 

[sethm0]

  All Democrats and fair minded people across the world,

      Begin hating the Green Party now. Un-fickin-believable.

   G F Allen     Republican    1,093,704    49.67%
  J H Webb Jr     Democratic    1,081,706    49.13%
  G G Parker     Independent Green    24,313    1.10%
  Write Ins          2,181    0.10%
 View Results by  District   Locality    Total:    2,201,904   

You can't just assume those people would have voted for the Democrat, if there wasn't a Green candidate running. I'm actually betting most of them wouldn't have voted.

 
  This argument works sometimes, but rarely and not here. In 2000, if only 10% of Nader voters had shown up to vote for Gore, Gore would have won by over 1500 votes. Here, if only 1/2 of the green votres voted for Webb, he'd have the lead.

[Frodo]

Republicans appear to be holding on to most of their 'firewall' states with the exception of Montana -and I am proud to note that of the remaining states, Virginia is apparently their weakest link. 

[Frodo]

Allen is holding on to a 12,000 vote lead over Webb with nearly 96% precincts reporting. 

Allen leads with 49.7%, with Webb trailing narrowly with 49.1%.

[Inmate Trump]

I really can't believe Allen might win.  This is just sad.