Posts by Hamish
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Holy crap, you go off and do other things for a few hours and everything changes. Horay for the Democrats!
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opposing the renewal of the Patriot Act, the NSA program and the Swift money transfer surveillance program is all the evidence you need to deem someone a card carrying member of the loony left.
Well, no. Governments of yester-year would never have allowed such policies to be enacted in the first place.
Postulating on the supposed effectiveness of the programs is missing the point - as Michael says, the fact that people like James feel that such anti-American measures (in the classic, freedom and liberty sense) are necessary is symptomatic of the failures of failed US foreign policy.
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Lamont concedes, Lieberman takes Connecticut- although the NY Times adds an element of confusion by awarding red ticks to winners regardless of affiliation.
Two more disctricts go Blue - 7 seats have swung, the Dems are half way to victory in the House.
Virginia is stays Red and it looks like Tennessee will too. No surprises brewing elsewhere in the Senate races so have to say that Senate will settle at 48 Blue, 52 Red.
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Hamish - the Senate was *never* going to be a route for the Democrats. The demographics of Senate representation simply don't favour them.
Yes, sorry, I was referring to the House (re-reading it, it did sound a bit n00bish). It's still very close though.
Another district goes blue, this time in Connecticut.
(also a correction: Kansas had the fourth swing.. not Indiana)
Least we forget the Governors, there have been 3 swings to the Democrats, with New York, Ohio and Massachesetts ushering new faces. That puts the Blues and Red all square.
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Rhode Island has been called for Dems in the Senate with 0.7% counted - sounds a bit hopeful, but only 2 more pickups and the Dems have leveled the score with the Reps in the Senate.
Whatever happens in Tennesee and Virginia will be the key. They're both just in favour of the Reps, but both races are very close.
Another Indiana district goes blue - the only state to actually see changes confirmed so far. Total pickups in the House for Dems is 4 - at least another 10 needed to shift the balance of power.
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With just underway in NY, Hillary is kicking ass at 82.4%. That'll come down, but she'll take it easily.
Virginia: 81% counted, Reps are 50.1 to 48.8 in the Senate, only a few thousand in it.
Still, not many states where the incumbent is not holding out.
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Dems are claiming three now
So is the NY times - they're all being fairly safe on their calls. Dems appear to have picked up 2 in the Senate and 3 in the House so far, although there are at least five or six disctricts that are heavily swaying left as the numbers come in: lots of action in Indiana (hard swing left), New Hampshire (might be split 1 for 1).. etc.
Gotta say, it isn't shaping up to be a complete Democrat take-over - incumbents are, generally, keeping their seats. Will be interesting to see how the numbers finally stack up.
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Ha ha - with 219 votes in, Robert Casey leads Rick Santorum in the PA Senate race. Only a few hundred thousand votes left to go.
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Looks like the first pick-up is in the works in Indiana - 61.7/38.3 to the Dems with 33.6% counted.
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NY Times also has excellent actual result coverage, with maps, graphs 'n all.