Cardin Beats Steele in Maryland
Ben Cardin is now the senator-elect from Maryland. That’s the third pick up for the Dems.
UPDATE: Thanks, Pat — Not a pick up. This is Sen. Sarbannes’ seat.
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It’s Joe Not Ned
MSNBC is projecting that Joe Lieberman has been reelected in Connecticut.
$20 Well Spent in Florida
Former Florida Senator Ron Klein appears to be beating the pants off 25-year plus incumbent freakozoid Clay Shaw. That’s one more Dem on the U.S. House side for Florida. It was probably my last-minute $20 donation that clinched it.
Tampa’s Kathy Castor makes it two pick-ups on the Dem side for Florida, but Jon’s favorite (not) Republican incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has more than two-thirds of the vote, and Joe Negron, for whom voters must select “Mark Foley” on the ballot has 49% to Democrat Tim Mahoney’s 48%.
Closer to home, Democratic State Dist. 27 Rep. Joyce Cusack is holding off rich-boy Republican David Hood for her seat in Tallahassee. Go Rep. Q!
GOP Sen. Mike DeWine Defeated in Ohio
That’s two pick ups for the Democrats so far: Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown will be the new senator for Ohio, joining Sen. Bob Casey from Pennsylvania. Neither was a nail-biter, however.
Sen. Menendez won in New Jersey. Looking bad for Harold Ford in Tennessee.
Santorum Loses
NBC is calling the senate race in Pennsylvania for Bob Casey Jr.
Sen. Bill Nelson Wins Reelection
Buh-bye Katherine Harris. Thanks for all the fun.
Breaking: Really Important News
Forget the midterm elections, here’s something really important: Britney Spears has filed for divorce from Kevin Federline.
Gotta love the classic PR tactic: Release your bad news while another huge story is dominating the headlines. (That’s why she pays them the big bucks.)
Did Hillary Get One Less Vote?
NEW YORK (CNN) …[F]ormer “first daughter” Chelsea Clinton… turned up shortly after 6 a.m. at her polling site on West 20th Street — in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan — only to be told her name was not in the voter registration books there, a voting official said.
It turned out the registration book for her district had been mistakenly sent to the wrong location, said New York City Board of Elections Executive Director John Ravitz.
She filed an affidavit vote — a paper ballot that allows election workers to confirm that a voter is properly registered after their vote is cast. If the voter is not registered, the vote is not accepted.
High Voter Turnout in Virginia
Hope they are all angry Dems:
Reports from around Virginia early Tuesday indicated an extraordinarily high turnout for a midterm election, with perhaps 65 percent of registered voters expected to cast ballots, state elections officials said. That would double the midterm turnout in 2002.
‘Mean Jean’ Schmidthead Has Trouble Voting
As Stephanie Miller said, even voting machines recoil from Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio.
