Or enough in the Senate.

And if we're complaining - I'm sorry - but did Michelle's dress bother anyone else? Her dress reminded me of a black widow, horrible symbology, under the circumstances!!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

Yeah, especially Michele Bachmann winning. Ugh.

But on the bright side, this was the first time since the Great Depression that a party had gains of 25 seats in two consecutive elections.

I can't believe Stevens is ahead in Alaska.  What an embarrassment to the people that they would reelect a convicted felon

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Here in Michigan, we passes medical marijuana and kicked Joe Knollebgerg out of office.  Pretty impressive.

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Crunching the numbers the margin of victory for Obama in the states he flipped (IA, OH, FL, NV, NM, CO, VA) is only about 1.2 million votes.

IN, NC, and MO are still too close to call, margin there combined is like 35,000 votes.  It's crazy.

The 140 million voters didn't materialize.  Turnout looks to be 123 million or so, almost identical to 2004.  The GOP vote suppression efforts almost worked.

We nearly ended up in the hell of 2000 again, only this time with multiple states being too close to call and the GOP plan to sue, sue, sue was ready to go.

Only Herculean efforts by the Obama campaign and the people who braved those huge lines saved this one and put it out of stealing reach of the GOP.

Your vote counted this time, but I have to say there's plenty of reason to suspect a whole hell of a lot of foul play.

Still...even the GOP's effort wasn't enough.

Obama won.

Now the fight really begins.

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perhaps that has something to do with the disgraceful performance of the house and senate over the past couple of years.

Blank checks, bailouts for the wealthy, legalizing warrantless wiretapping... I would not be surprised if a number of people voted for president and declined to make a choice for down ticket races.  

I got off lucky, I have fattah for my rep. but if i lived a few miles north, it'd be murphy, and I would have left that space blank.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

Things aren't over yet by a LONG SHOT;

The count in Minnesota senate race is;

NORM COLEMAN 1210197

AL FRANKEN 1209079

With absentee and provisional ballots to be counted (along with 10 more precincts), with the difference between Franklin and Coleman less then .3% there is a mandated recount here.

More are probably democratic because they were more excited to vote this year.

Alaska is;

Begich, Mark 102998

Stevens, Ted 106351

With absentee and provisional ballots to be counted. ( And a mandated recount here also)

More are probably democratic because they were more excited to vote this year.

Oregon is;

Gordon Smith 509,566

Jeff Merkley 499,117

with 26% of the ballots to be counted, especially in and around Portland. (Recount probably also mandated, but I am not up on Oregon law)

And there is a report they haven't included the early voting results from around Atlanta is the state totals;

From TPM last night;

And I believe they were supposed to be disproportionately African-American. And now WSBTV.com in Atlanta is reporting this: "Fulton and Gwinnett Counties failed to include any advance votes in their election totals by 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Officials at the Secretary of States office confirmed to WSB-TV Channel 2 that the votes were not being included in early returns. Up to two million votes may be going uncounted. 'Something's really wrong out there,' said WSB-TV political analyst Matt Towery." That could have a very big effect on the senate race in the state. So Saxby Chambliss may not be home free after all.

This election is far from over and the senate totals are not settled.

We have just won the most important part of it.

I live and vote in Miami County, Ohio.  About 20 - 25 miles north of Dayton, Ohio.

The local rag, Piqua Daily Call, is in denial.  Election must not have happened.  State issues ?  No results.  County issues ?  Vote tallying machines broke down.  Obama ?  12 pt type.  It looks like they had extreme difficulty getting their fingers to type his name.  I wonder what the next four years will be like for these and other folks that suffer from this blatant racism ????

The county Dem HQ was loud & raucous  last night and getting louder when I left.

Of course, we still have John Boehner as our rep (Boo !!  Hiss !!) in Congress.  

I am so, so happy that we have this one hurdle behind us.

a bit disappointing overall, but still a good showing imo. we did a good job here in co.

obama and udall won, the odious musgrave got tossed to the curb by betsy markey, and a real progressive jared polis won a non-contest...plus the state went BLUE for the first time since '92.

not a bad night.

the revolution will not be televised...

The wet rag slap in my face this morning is the possibility that gay marriage may be banned in CA. WTF!

In Minnesota I think the real story is Congressional reapportionment last time became an exercise in incumbent protection, creating five DFL seats and three Repub seats.  One of each has flipped since then but those districts from the Twin Cities to the Canadian border are deliberately tilted to one party. It would take a retirement, health crisis or major felony to remove an incumbent Congressperson in the 3rd to 8th districts.  The two major parties fixed it that way.

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