Early Evening

Nothing seems to be upsetting the narrative - this is the moment when the rise of the oceans begins to accelerate and our planet begins to sicken.  The WSJ has a handy guide.

For a fulfilling evening I look for the following:  In the Senate, I would love to see Rubio win and Reid lose.  An O'Donnell victory in Delaware would be dangerous, what with leaping libs falling to the pavement everywhere.  And we want Pat Toomey in PA, natch, but that is hardly suspenseful.

In the House we are planning to stay up for Nancy's demotion speech, but I bet she won't deliver one - leadership that's shirking.  Of course, if the Dems hold on for a House majority I won't be seeing the coverage since my television will have a shoe in it.  Bielat beating Barney would be beautiful.

Comments

[Extraneus]

Just posted on the other thread, Drudge is saying that exit polls indicate Blanche Lincoln is a goner. Here's a pic for caro.

[centralcal]

Libs leaping from tall buildings. I like that image!!!! Even moreso if they are in the MFM!

[Danube of Thought]

Boxer's the one.

[Thomas Collins]

I know early exit poll results can be misleading, but the report in the LUNed article, which focuses on general voter concerns and not specific races, is more consistent with a tsunami than gentle waves.

[matt]

can we do a concession speech thread tomorrow? It will be very interesting to hear what the losers have to say.

[Thomas Collins]

EXIT POLLS:

Arkansas: Boozman (R) defeats Lincoln (D)
Ohio: Portman (R) defeats Fisher (D)
North Dakota: Hoeven (R) defeats Potter (D)
Wisconsin: Johnson (R) defeats Feingold (D)

See above for Drudge's first exit poll reports. I know these races seem like they are low hanging fruit, but who woulda thunk these would be low hanging fruit 18 months ago.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

It is only 1%, but Coates is up bny 5 in IN, Paul up by 16 in KY.

[BobDenver]

Time to start believing the exit polls, I guess.

[boris]

Bye Russ Finegone ...

[Captain Hate]

The pudding companies will have to add shifts for the inventory shortages.

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

Of course, if the Dems hold on for a House majority I won't be seeing the coverage since my television will have a shoe in it.

LOL!!

[Captain Hate]

In the House we are planning to stay up for Nancy's demotion speech, but I bet she won't deliver one

She may tack it on to the end of the budget..

[Thomas Collins]

Perhaps Nan will ask her pal Louise Slaughter to push through a House Rules Committee "demotion speech deemed given" rule.

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

...or post it on Obama's forehead next to his birth certificate!

[Captain Hate]

Is Louise "false teef" Slaughter in any danger of losing?

[Elliott]

Greetings, JOMers Mak,ala,aka!

I would be delighted to see my prediction of a 73-seat net loss by the Democrats in the House prove overly cautious.

[Threadkiller]

--"Bielat beating Barney would be beautiful."--

There has to be a better way of wording that.

[Jane]

I heard that Slaughter will quit if Nancy does.

[Captain Hate]

can we do a concession speech thread tomorrow? It will be very interesting to hear what the losers have to say.

They've been lying and refusing to take responsibility for anything throughout their entire political lives. Do you honestly expect losing their gravy train to produce a change in that? Or do you just want to see the un-smug but faithfully immature deliveries?

[matt]

Capt.;

They are going to create magical rainbow pretzels of semantic illogic trying to explain away the beatdown. I want to watch as Nancy's pony is put to sleep.

[Captain Hate]

I heard that Slaughter will quit if Nancy does.

I'm not questioning the accuracy of what you heard but would you or somebody else explain what that really means. Does that mean Louise is a clueless witch that Nan made sure had plum responsibilities that even she couldn't screw up? Does it mean that she has nobody else that looks out for her and she'll get garbage responsibilities? Because for somebody that sounds as dumb as Louise does, a Congressional gig is like free money; not that she'll be a pauper in retirement.

[Clarice]

FNC projecting Paul (ky) and Coates (ind) have won.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Chalk up 1st Senate pickup with Coates.

[Captain Hate]

Works for me, Matt!

[JM Hanes]

Thomas Collins:

I was living in Boston for a couple of years around the turn of the century (couldn't resist writing it that way!), so the Mayor is not unknown to me. :-) The opening line of the article you linked gave me a laugh: "top Democrats, led by a sober Mayor Thomas M. Menino...."

Actually, it' not the first line any more. Did I just miss the 1st two paragraph pep talk from the Gov, or was it added while I was clicking between pages 1 & 2? In any case, it's interesting that the 'burbs are outvoting the 'urbs. Is that unusual? Or is that just a change back from 2008, do you think?

[Pagar]

Sister Toldjah says Fox has called Ind a win for Coates.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

I would be delighted to see my prediction of a 73-seat net loss by the Democrats in the House prove overly cautious.

I would be delighted to see my prediction of +90 prove overly cautious.

[Mike Huggins]

Beitbart TV is carrying Hugh Hewitt live with
election coverage.
Ooh, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter up next - I wonder what he'll be saying (I'm guessing, "Democrats haven't got out the best message about all the wondrous things that Obama, Pelosi and Reid have done.")

[centralcal]

Hhhmmmm - Anita Vogel (who seems to favor Dems in her reporting the past few weeks) is giving her updates from Harry Reids venue. Trying to send a message, Anita?

Even some of the reporters at FNC are MFM. ::grin::

[Barbara]

How do you say, "I'm a nervous wreck," in JOMO?

I'm cautiously optimistic here in So. Cal, but can't wait to hear good news coming in from the east.

[Thomas Collins]

I don't know about 'urbs vs. 'burbs, JMH, but the LUNed article indicates that in Massachusetts the 2010 percentage turnout number might top 1990 (which had the Weld-Silber Guv race), which currently holds the percentage turnout record in a non-Presidential election year.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Sheesh. CNN scroller Rubio 41, Meek 17 and Crust at 40, but Scott is beating Sink with big numbers. 67-30, then Blitzer's big board shows Rubio at 68 and Crust at 19.

[macphisto]

i'm just delighted not to be getting any more GOTV calls. i finally got one from a real human, and it was really nice to reassure him "there's no way in the WORLD i'm missing this." turnout at my local polling place in the hills between Santa Cruz and San Jose was higher than i've ever seen, with more people through at 3:30 than you usually see by 7PM; it's possible that the pot-legalization thing may be driving people to the polls, but i really don't believe that the local moonbat population is more excited about Proposition 19 than they were about battling Boooooosh.

[JM Hanes]

Good Evening, Elliott! I was hoping you'd be here. Have you got the No-Doz handy?

I was happily watching election coverage with Brett & Brit, when up popped Shep Smith. Yeaargh!

Switched over to the Best Political Team in Television, to see if the Best Political Team in Television's coverage could live up to its own Best Political Team in Television standards. Wondered who the blondish young woman posing totally forgettable questions might be, till I recognized Spitzer sitting next to her and the light dawned, dimly.

They could eliminate everybody on the set but John King and Candy Crowley, and still call it the Best Political Team in Television.

[Jane]

I'm not questioning the accuracy of what you heard but would you or somebody else explain what that really means.

It means she is 80 years old and what's the point if she doesn't have a good office and all the perks of being in the majority.

[Pagar]

Barbara, You'll be delighted to hear that Sen DeMint has apparently held off his opponent to win in SC.

[Captain Hate]

Having been pretty rough on him previously, I must congratulate Michael Steele for not making any dumbass counterproductive statements that I can remember since at least Labor Day. In fact the last thing I remember from him was telling everybody to STFU regarding slams at Christine O'Donnell.

Unless I missed something, of course; but I think the MFM would've been all over it...

[Charlie (Colorado)]

The word is is greater than 75 percent turnout in at least one CO county. A heavily Republican one at that.

[Captain Hate]

Thanks Jane; I didn't realize she was that old.

[centralcal]

lol, Pagar!

[Danube of Thought]

On Fox I'm seeing Rubio 52, Scumbag 30, but it's 1%.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Portman called in OH. New Senator.

[Jane]

Portman wins

[Barbara]

"You'll be delighted to hear that Sen DeMint has apparently held off his opponent to win in SC"

Wonderful!!! Thanks, Pagar!

[Rob Crawford]

The word is is greater than 75 percent turnout in at least one CO county.

Yeow.

Can't wait to see the final turnout figures.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Speaking of clueless Pelosi, this is up on Memoradum:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said late this afternoon that she is confident the House Democrats' message to preserve Social Security and fight for the middle class will resonate with voters. “We're on pace to maintain the majority in the House of Representatives …

[Captain Hate]

Portman was pretty much a lock because Fisher is such a loser that the donks keep trotting out to get his ass kicked on a regular basis; although he did put away Brunner pretty easily, which tells you all you need to know about her base of support.

[MarkO]

Make this restraining order a permanent injunction.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Webster beating the disgusting Grayson by over 20 points (Fox)

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet]

On the minus side, Drudge has exit polls predicting Boxer win:>(

[Danube of Thought]

Perriello getting trounced.

[Jane]

Someone needs to go and pick up Nancy Pelosi's jet. That privilege is going bye bye

[rse]

Watched ABC to see how they were spinning it:

One reporter pointed out that Scott. Whitman, and I think Fiorina among themselves had spent $250 Billion on their campaigns.

B? M?

Is there really a difference?

Oh and voters are angry because govt is dysfunctional.

Not overreaching. It just needs to work better and get us jobs.

Denial. Denial.

[JM Hanes]

"Bye Russ Finegone"

Sounds like Bye-Ku time!

Lincoln, Reid, Feingold
Out like Doddering Boxers.
Murray? Could be Franked.

Could also be more inspired, alas, but maybe some of the folks sippin' from their Slurpee cups will weigh in.

[macphisto]

Boxer winning is plausible, but the exits i saw said by ten points??? that's nuts.

[PD]

I know these races seem like they are low hanging fruit

I don't know how beating Feingold is low hanging fruit. He's been untouchable for years. I want this loathesome creature out, but I want to see the tallies before I believe it.

[macphisto]

Washington DC
flushed, like eco-plumbing, twice
now and twenty-twelve

[centralcal]

I love my new ATT Uverse. While FNC was in commercial I clicked on MSNBC. OMG. Michael Isikoff's eyes are bugging out of his head, his pointer finger is jabbing the air, and he is going off on Karl Rove's Crossroad group and their campaign contributions.

Too hysterical!!!!

[macphisto]

just wait until 8PM our time...smoke may actually come out of their ears.

[centralcal]

Jim - be careful with exit polls. Cali doesn't close their polls until 8 pm and a lot of folks will be voting on their way home from work.

[Captain Hate]

Rove tooling idiots like Isikoff is what I've liked most about him.

[PD]

Good to see that the reprehensible Alan Grayson is down 2 to 1, although it's only 6% of the total in so far.

[mockmook]

Geez, why do they even put up results with less than 10% of the vote in, just clutter.

[PD]

Megyn Kelly's looking poised and confident.

[sbw]

Ahhh! Just settled in with 22 ounces of Coke Icee (Not gonna drive to Rochester for a Slurpee) trying to decide what to watch on TV other than talking heads, and missing some decent sports like those on last night.

[Porchlight]

I would like to report that my Kerry- and Obama-voting husband, who became an NRA member with my gift membership 18 months ago, unbeknownst to me did all his NRA-related homework and actually voted for several Republicans today. He didn't vote for Campbell, though - he picked the Libertarian. But at least that's one vote Doggett won't get.

It got cold and rainy here at the end of the work day - hope that means some Dems who haven't voted yet will blow it off.

[rse]

LUN is for daddy and the latest Moocoski gambit.

Her campaign contacted AK stations to get Miller's ads taken off during last 24 hours.

[matt]

maybe we need Pelosi to wake up tomorrow morning with that pony's head under the covers a la Godfather to help it sink in.

[Captain Hate]

Little steps, Porch; for a musician that's downright conservative

[Rob Crawford]

Her campaign contacted AK stations to get Miller's ads taken off during last 24 hours.

What a pity we can't vote to exile people.

[Porchlight]

Murdlouseski is so awful. Please, please let her be defeated.

[Porchlight]

Yes, Cap'n, it's pretty great. I had a feeling he'd come around - the NRA thing really helped, though.

[Barbara]

Where's Pofarmer (sp)?

[MarkO]

How can one describe a government fully in control by one party as dysfunctional? It functioned exactly as the Democrats wanted. That Obamacare slight of hand was such an affront to regular Americans that this is the appropriate response.

[Rob Crawford]

NRO via Insty: The Alaska TV station has fired the producers involved in the completely innocent conversation accidentally recorded over an open phone line.

[Danube of Thought]

The GOP candidate for Gov. In VT is a guy named Dubie. If he wins, maybe he can get a Prop. 19 going up there.

[Porchlight]

Fox calls it for Rubio!

[Sue]

Dang. Connecticut just went dem.

[Rob Crawford]

(But I need to add this: don't feel bad for those fired; they'll have new jobs in the lower 48 before the New Year.)

[caro]

Thanks for the lincoln pic. Trying to catch up.

[Dave (in MA)]

The school I voted at didn't turn on the lights in the parking lot. I'm being disenfranchised!
In the 21 years since I moved to this town I've never seen it this crowded at the polls before.
Heavy suburban turnout has to be bad for the D's.

OTOH FNC has a checkmark next to the bearded marxist.

[macphisto]

"What a pity we can't vote to exile people."

and Alaska is so close to Siberia, too...

[matt]

progressive soundbites
bleat like wounded sheeple
denying the real

[MarkO]

Is he one of the Dubie Brothers?

[Jack is Back!]

Great news for us in Florida: Rubio is in. Grayson and Kosmas are out and it looks like Clarice's buddy Col. West is going to win. Rick Scott is winning also - so bye, bye Charlie. Why did I vote for you as governor.

[qrstuv]

Porchlight, I don't think Leea Murdnutsky has an actual chance, and she is just drawing votes from Miller. Probably she wants to punish AK Republicans for not choosing her.

What a total b***h she is.

I won't be forgetting the Senate GOP's failure to boot her off committees
any time soon either.

[centralcal]

I join Sue in the dangs! Christine, I am not a witch, didn't make it to the finish line.

[Jane]

The GOP candidate for Gov. In VT is a guy named Dubie.

I heard him on the radio yesterday - and I liked him.

[Rob Crawford]

and Alaska is so close to Siberia, too...

I was thinking what Athens used to do.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

Is it insulting to anyone else the way they are calling races without any numbers at all? They could at least wait for 1-5%.

[Jane]

I wanted McMahon to win in CT

[Captain Hate]

Is it insulting to anyone else the way they are calling races without any numbers at all?

Yes, especially after what we went through in 2000 with Bush/Gore.

[Sue]

Does it look like a wave? I'm kind of disappointed. I didn't want anyone with a D after their name to win.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I've seen a ripple or two, but no wave. Disappointing.

[Danube of Thought]

If we don't take the Senate, one saving grace will be that Dick Morris will have to lower his voice. And that's a good thing.

[JM Hanes]

Decided it was safe to go back to Fox. O'Riley bloviating. Back to the Best Political Team in Television and Soledad "Teh Stoopid" O'Brien.

[Captain Hate]

I did too, Jane; the donks must have quite a machine in CT because the winning candidate was a lying POS.

Mark Levin is gushing about how great it is that Rubio won. I'm so glad Crist is gone; what a worthless self-involved lowlife.

[PD]

Heh. FOX has a bumper that ends, "We don't lean. Move forward"

Wonder who that's a shot at?

[macphisto]

will Gov. Dubie be takin' it to the streets, then?

[Jack is Back!]

Easy folks, remember most of American's still get their news from the MFM. Also, local and state name recognition means a lot in places like Delaware, Connecticut and Vermont. The Tea Party is still a neighborhood ice cream social versus hard knocks precinct by precinct machine politics which is not dead.

It was never going to be a tsunami but rather a state by state creeping return to sensibility.