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Tonight is the last big primary night of the cycle featuring several important races. Voters in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are all deciding their parties’ nominees. You can find a preview of what races are worth watching this evening here. You can find part one of the liveblog election results here. You can find live election results at Politico.
Polls closed at 8:00 EST in Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Washington DC. Polls closed at 9:00 EST in New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
The big news so far is in Delaware. The tea party backed Christine O’Donnell beat establishment choice Rep. Mike Castle. With the victories of hardcore conservative insurgent primary challengers in Alaska and Delaware senate races expect much talk about whether moderates are no longer welcomed in the Republican party.
This is assumed to be good news for Democrat Chris Coons since O’Donnell is seen as less electable.
In MA-09 Democratic Rep. Steve Lynch defeated his primary challenger Mac D’Allesandro.
9:58pm – In NH-02 progressive Ann Kuster crushed Queen of the Liebercrat Katrina Swett. The race has already been called by the AP with 13% reporting and Kuster with 73.7% of the vote.
10:02pm – David Cicilline has been called as the winner of the Democratic primary in RI-01.
10:08pm – In the MA-10 open seat Jeff Perry has been declared the winner of the Republican primary defeating Joe Malone by a wide margin.
10:22pm – It looks like the New Hampshire GOP Senate primary could be another upset. With 19.9% reporting it is Ovide Lamontagne 44.1% – Kelly Ayotte 36.2%.
10:29pm – Tonight is looking good for outsider Republicans (or bad for establishment candidates) all over. In the NY GOP GOV primary with 21.8% reporting Carl Paladino has a huge lead with 69.5% to Rick Lazio 30.5%.
10:35pm – In MA-10 Bill Keating has been declared the winner of the Democratic primary.
10:40pm – In the NY-14 with 10.3% reporting incumbent Democrat Carolyn Maloney is crushing Reshma Saujani 84.7- 15.3. I guess even in NYC being the candidate of Wall Street is terrible politics.
10:50pm – Not surprisingly Andy Harris has been declared the winner of the GOP primary in MD-01. He will go on to challenge incumbent Dem. Frank Kratovil in the general. Rematch!
11:00pm – As expect Scott Walker wins the GOP Gov nomination in Wisconsin and will face Dem Tom Barrett.
11:05pm – In WI-07 GOP “Young Gun” and MTV “Real World” star, Sean Duffy has been declared the winner of the Republican primary. He will face Democrat Julie Lassa
11:09pm – In a shocker the AP has called the GOP Gov primary for Carl Paladino. With 47.3% reporting it is Paladino 66.8 – Lazio 33.2. The polling of this race was way off. Paladino just crushed Lazio.
11:25pm – It has been officially called by the AP. In NY-14 incumbent Carolyn Maloney crushed Reshma Saujani.
11:35pm – The brutal three way GOP primary in NY-01 finally has a winner. The AP called it for Randy Altschuler with 45.1% of the vote. Altschuler will face Dem incumbent Tim Bishop in the general.
11:37pm – In NY-13 Micheal Grimm has been declared the winner of the GOP primary.
11:38pm – Reid Ribble won the GOP primary in WI-08. He will face Democratic incumbent Steven Kagen in the general. And in NY-15 Charlie Rangel has survived.
12:00am – NY-23 GOP primary has been called for Matthew Doheny. The loser of the GOP primary, Doug Hoffman has already promised to still complete in the general election on the Conservative party line. So it looks like Democrat William Owens might win again thanks to a divided right. At this point we are basically just waiting on New Hampshire.
12:20am – With 50.2% reporting in NH, Ayotte has taken an extremely narrow lead. Ayotte 38.5 – Lamontagne 38.2.
12:40am – New Hampshire and DC have been really really slow to count their votes this evening.
1:00am – In NH only 70% is reporting. In the GOP Senate primary Ayotte leads 38.4 – Lamontagne 37.6.
1:10am – Former Rep. Charlie Bass has been declared the winner of the NH-02 GOP primary. He is one of the many Republicans trying to take back their former seats this year.
1:15am – It appears the Washington Post is projecting that Vincent Gray defeated incumbent DC mayor Adrian Fenty.
1:35am – It looks like New Hampshire has basically staled out on new election results so I’m going to call it a night.
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O’Donnell
O’migawd.
Bring on the crazy train.
And who’s George?
Blow me, Politico. No DC mayor’s race on your page at all. Oh, that’s right, negroes.
It has already arrived.
forgive my OT,but omg!!!!
Exclusive: Republican terror group vows to resume mainland attacks with banks and bankers now potential targets
Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 September 2010 21.03 BST
Banks and bankers are now potential targets for the Real IRA, leaders of the dissident republican terror group have warned in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Despite having only 100 activists they also said that targets in England remained a high priority. In an attempt to tap into the intense hostility towards the banks on both sides of the Irish border they branded bankers as “criminals” and said:
On Politico’s map of the world, DC is outside the beltway, and thus not part of their target audience.
If Moderate Republicans are not welcome, what about the Indies?
lol, too true
Thanks for that, that’s quite an important piece of news.
Democratic leadership (hello, Rahm?) have grossly underestimated the anger shared in common by the teabaggers and the progressive community over the financial industry’s fuckery.
The IRA threat is an indication this is a worldwide sentiment, not limited to the U.S.
Reid would be in Blanche Lincoln territory right now if Angle hadn’t won, Delaware would be a no doubt Republican pick up if O’Donnell hadn’t won. Conway has a real chance in Kentucky and the same can be said for Colorado and Alaska. There is no room for moderates or independents in today’s Teabag Republican Party. That doesn’t mean that it’s an automatic win for the Democrats but none of the Democrats races I mentioned would stand a chancen of winning if the teabaggers hadn’t won.
No sense dealing with fools who insist on calling it Reagan instead of National Airport.
NY-13 Michael Grimm will be the Gop challenger for the seat currently held by freshman Michael McMahon. The battle of the Micheals. Grimm is backed by the former Borough President Guy Molinari, the Molinari Republican Club, and Molinari’s high-profile political allies Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Sarah Palin.
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/with_grimm_holding_commanding.html
Correct. Ironically, the Tea Baggers may have saved the Senate for the Democrats.
Barney Frank’s primary opponent got 1 in 6 votes – she was a nice lady but had basic gaps in her political knowledge in the debate (a debate broadcast and re-broadcast every night at 7:30
She was the first Lyndon LaRouche candidate I have seen that I thought was electable – if she had funds and was in the right race – but she had only a few hundred dollars for the race and Frank was not the right race – she presented herself as the one to bring back FDR politics. It was a more interesting primary than in prior years!
:-)
Yup. Plus, the Democrats still have a lot of money, whereas the Republicans have been burning up theirs fighting losing battles against teabaggers.
I suspect that we will have a more liberal Senate Dem caucus and a truly batshit crazy Senate GOP caucus.
Are we sure that’s true? What frightens me is the thought that these nutjobs will win in November and be actual members of Congress in January.
After all, they’re winning because the nuttiest voters are the ones motivated to vote. What’s the difference then, between the primary and the general, where Democrats and non-nutty Republican voters will be the less-motivated?
Yay, another gay Congressman if Cicilline wins RI-o1; he’ll win, right?
I’m a conservative Republican that loves to read FDL. I would say that if tonight represents a “good night” for the dems it shows the shape that the dems are in this year. I always thought it was an outside chance at best that the Reps would win enough seats to win the Senate. Castle was going to be another Spector. Don’t under estimate the tea party. Most arent crazy but they are fired up. By the way a lot of libs that I know arent really very happy either. Someday people are going to figure out this little shell game that the insiders play pitting the left against the right while the insiders keep screwing the country.
This was the woman about whom Barney said last year at a Town Hall that arguing with her was like debating a dining room table, correct?
I repeat, that doesn’t mean an automatic win for the Democrats but they have a chance now in several races that they wouldn’t have had if they had a sane opponent. Look at Blanche Lincoln’s pols. Last I saw, she was down by more than 20.
very blue district so yes
Nice to see Maloney destroy the Wall Street candidate. A rout.
Yes she was the woman.
Ooh, I hadn’t seen that about Lincoln.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to criticize; I certainly would assume this was good for Dems in an ordinary year…I guess I just feel more pessimistic. Not that the usual Dems are all that great, of course.
Is that Carolyn Maloney?
World.Gone.Mad.
Was he the best guy though? I thought Segal was supposed to be even better.
Oh, it’s Patrick Kennedy retiring, I couldn’t recall why there was a vacancy there.
Hopefully that margin remains pretty much the same.
The Leiberdem in NH lost to the progressive.
No big and I didn’t take it as criticism. :)
Fox News reported that the NRSC will not support O’Donnell.
I’ll bet Rahm is hoppin’ mad and cursing those “f*cking” Progressives again…
I’m an identity voter; the non-straight candidate is always the best one, to me. Don’t ask what I do when there’s a gay man running against a lesbian; it happened in SF last year, it’s not pretty.
Apparently O’D's handlers are already scrubbing her site of the crazier positions — it’s been taken down for now. Quick, to the Google cache, Robin!
The NRSC just isn’t going to have the money they usually do. The Koch sponsored teabaggers are trying to make them irrelevant. John Cornyn: Epic FAIL!
It’s true. O’Donnell does horribly, HORRIBLY against Chris Coons. And the sane Republican who was facing Reid crushed him in polling; Reid has a fighting chance against Angle, especially if she keeps spouting off.
It would be political malpractice is the DNC did not copy it three weeks ago.
Too much out there in the press already. She is toast.
Hahahahahaha!
Between this, my Twins winning, and making up some cabbage rolls and soup for tomorrow, life is good.
So, we know the DNC did not, right?
I’ll ask again: is there a sore loser law in Delaware? Can Castle run as an indie?
It is sugar free energy drink time. Looks like NH is going to be extremely slow.
No. He can only run as a write in
Again, the man comes with his own anti Paladino ads, already in his baggage. Racist emails, obscene pictures, including bestiality. The Republicans gotta be wondering WTF has happened to their world. Here’s a clue: Even your own people know that you are for the filthy rich and the filthy rich alone. That and the fact that you’ve cultivated a racist, eliminationist, xenophobic, intolerant base and now it’s biting you in the ass. You reap what you sow. Same with the Democrats as well but in their case they’ve sown apathy as opposed to venomous and violent behavior.
Any chance you have a link to that? that info might come in handy, thanks.
AP calls NY-Gov for Paladino, per Rachel.
Now do you see why we love our pacific time zone? Early yet here….
My Astros won. They have the best winning percentage in the majors since the all star break. Too bad they had one of the crappiest before but this is a good night. :)
No idea.
Mediaite
Anyone who has read Will Bunch’s book will recognize all the names of the groups O’Donnell thanks in her speech tonight. For those of you who don’t know how she won tonight, I highly recommend his book. He takes Delaware as a microcosm, meeting with people all over the state to understand the teabag movement.
You think Maloney is not the Wall Street candidate? Maloney’s husband was a Wall Street exec. Maloney took corporate money from PACs. Saujani mostly took it from individuals.
What is an insurgent candidate in New York supposed to do? I believe only one Congressional challenge has been successful in the last twenty years. They have to raise significant money somehow.
The Democratic machine was successful in portraying Saujani as Wall Street’s tool but I don’t believe that to be the case. Maloney is a boring career pol–and not that progressive either.
I just listened to his concession speech. He gave absolutely no indication that he has any interest in doing so.
Paladino, O’Donnell – it’s the night of the tea-party, wingnut loonies. Which leaves me asking – where on earth is Dan Quayle?
Lazio must have sign on his back that sez ‘Kick Me.’ Seems like he’s the go-to guy for losing races.
I was a fan of Portland. Need to see it in the winter but might think of moving there some day.
I’ll bet there are going to be a lot more Greer moments forthcoming from the Republicans who’ve lost to the teabaggers.
Jon got it at #44, thanks!
I came really close to moving to Portland 20 years ago. Still wondering if I didn’t make a mistake.
Reshma worked for like three hedge funds
The brave thing to do is move here before actually seeing it in winter, as some people I know have just done.
I generally agree with you.
But do you know what the shell game is? For all the talk about the liberal Democratic Party, how come only DLCers manage to run for the White House?
You ever play poker? Here are a couple of tells. Lloyd Bentsen and Joe Lieberman.
Thanks Teddy. The comments there are foaming with teatards – heh. They don’t seem to understand the concept of political triage; why would the NRSC spend limited funds on a race that’s borderline at best versus spending funds on a race in which a conservative has a better chance of winning?
They cut away partway through; did he endorse O’Donnell or congratulate her?
I’m just going to sit back and watch the Republican establishment lament the teabag victories, knowing what it does for their chances…. It’s your own doing folks. That’s what you get for encouraging insane behavior.
The ONLY place I read comments anymore on the internet is right here at FDL.
*heh* The comment thread is a worthwhile read alone…!
‘Screw the NRSC’… And, she’ll be funded by Tea Party ‘Patriots’ nationwide… Was the general consensus…! ;-)
The NRSC isn’t going to be spending their limited resources on races they know they can’t win. The conventional wisdom would be “forgive and forget” and “we’re all Republicans here” but that’s just not the way it is this year. They don;t have the money for one and there are some really hard feelings. Michael Steele is a failure and so is John Cornyn.
I owe ya a beverage, M’dear…! ;-)
They’re calling it for Paladino. Not that Cuomo had much of a hill to climb anyway but this should be epic.
He did not endorse her.
O’Donnell, eh? I guess that’s good news for the Democratic Party leadership…
Her passion is government. That’s why she went to the Kennedy school and that’s why she stayed only for a short time at the hedge funds. I would wager that almost every lawyer in NY-14 works for a bank or a hedge fund.
Yeah, agreed, but every once in a while I take a peek elsewhere. Helps remind me what we’re up against — in this case, people who need some Thorazine.
Well said. I haven’t been around here much of late and was of the impression that I was one of the very few telling people to blow me. In fact, I just did it to a dickweed, homer Tampa Bay rays announcer.
No, it was on Dkos elections report on their front page.
Thanks, Teddy P. got your back and provided a Mediaite link (probably the source for DKos, too).
Know what is so cool about baseball. One night Yankees-rays go to extra innings ties 0-0. Tonight they go to extra innings tied 7-7. same teams. one night apart. totally different games. Didn’t know that about the Astros. I don’t follow the NL much. Birds are doing that in the AL.
Know anything about Berkman? Yanks just got him recently. Seems pretty good.
I just went to the website of the FOX affiliate in wilmington and didn’t see anything about the election. I need to try again. That can’t be.
That was Wilmington North Carolina. What an asshole!
Well, NY-14 got its old Wall Street hack back, rather than the new young Wall Street hack that Goldman Sachs preferred.
. . . Hooray?
Yes – same women got enough signatures to challenge Barney Frank in the Dem primary.
In the debate this time – unlike in the spring – she had studied the issues and the facts and came across as reasonable if a little uniformed. Barney was nice to her and complimented her on getting active in politics – said he admired her effort in politics (of course Barney comes across as the fellow that knows all the answers – because he more or less does – but he could use some training in how to not look arrogant – but in this debate he was quite toned down and nice to her and the moderator).
Rove trashed O’Donnell & called her “nutty” on Hannity.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/09/de_sen_odonnell.php
“Reagan National” makes me crazy too.
I refuse to call it that, whatever the circumstances. It will be a fine day when progressives take over Congress and re-name it I.F. Stone National Airport. Or Bill Proxmire. Or even moldly old Carl Albert. Or . . . what was the name of that populist Senator from Oklahoma?
The irony of the movement Rove breathed life into being trashed and punked by the same – delicious.
Pandora opened the
boxjar out of curiosity. Rove, not so much.I like to think of it as “the night Jamie Dimon’s money couldn’t buy congress.”
As opposed to every other night.
Name it Townsend Airport. The hero that brought us Social Security does not get enough love.
Lazio lost?
Irony is a bitch, yes?
Heads up, something going on at Fenty HQ, told to check Fox TV5 which has live feed at site. Not good, source says there may have been a shooting.
Edit: says it looks like a campaign worker pushed through window, EMS on scene.
Edit2: can’t find anything on internet at Fox-5′s site, must be on local broadcast news.
However, M’dear… The Koch Bros’ checks still cleared…! ;-)
YES! Please, waste money on that harridian!
Is Goldman-Sachs a State now?
Paladino got the Republican nomination. Cuomo can pick out the furnishing for his office
Oh my word — the establishment-Republican knives are out for Jim DeMint!
Campaign worker leaned on glass and fell through.
No kidding!
Karl Rove is trashing O’Donnell! Teh teabaggers are going to love this!
drapes, check. Carpet, check……
Reading some right wing comments to the O’Donnell story and they can’t believe. Just. Cannot. Believe. Castle didn’t congratulate and/or endorse her. Um…… Bill McCollum. Ring a bell? You know, cretin teabaggers, rick Scott. Like, 3 weeks ago? You know. Florida. The State you love so well. Jeez, seems the non-endorsement/non-congratulations, fuck-you Teabag Party has become standard for the GOP mainstream.
I know, right? Love it. Whata….. now, no name calling.
OK. We’re passed 100.
How’s everybody dune? I used to come here all the time and haven’t been around much lately.
Yikes.
Hey BFL, how ya been?
Pretty good, Ted. Separated from the wife and got divorced. That was a distraction and a major reason I haven’t been around But it was pretty amicable. No need for anybody to be sorry. Learning how to cook. Missing the kids. Got the oldest daughter off to her first year at college. Been occupied, but OK. Been lurking a bit and have seen you doing some great FDL work out there. Besides that, how you doing?
Great to see you back at the Lake, too bad about all that drama you had.
Hope things will be better going forward.
good to see your fonts again dood
welcome back
Welcome back.
That “first kid off to first year of college” thing can be dramatic/traumatic. It opens a whole new venue of “parenting,” but it’s welcoming to watch/aid their transition to adulthood.
My two, college grads in 2008 & 2010, are both searching for employment. It’s rough out there!! Hope things will be better for your grad come 2014. Oh, that’s right, no worries: the fabulous Obama Health Care plan will be kicking in right about then. Or kicking us.
Listen, man, you’re a major reason late night was an attraction for me. Love the cartoons and the music – although Blowin in the Wind never should have won that best song contest a few years ago around New Year’s Eve (wink, wink). Do you realize you gave me my password afrer I spazzily couldn’t logged in. About 5 times. So every time I log in I think of you, dearie. Great to be back and I’m getting settled and will be hanging out at FDL some more. ‘specially as we get closer to the election. I’m pretty new to facebook too. See some of the FDL peeple there.
Thank you. hope to be back more.
hope it works out. Jeez, it’s tough for ME, so I can only imagine what it’s like for them. Yeah i got her to the dorm. She allowed me to bring in all her shit and said “Bye daddy. Love you.” And she slept all the way on the plane up. So I never really said a proper good-bye. She was fine with it, I’m sure. I’m gone. So far (two weeks) it hasn’t been traumatic for me and she seems to love it. We’ll see. One down. three to go. Best of luck… best of everything to you and yours. (And there is very little that annoys me more than to hear my Democratic friends spouting the party line about how wonderful Obama is for doing “health care reform.” You know: “presidents have been trying to do this for ____ years…..”)
crazy ass racist bitch done declared war on his pasty ass ! they are tearing each other up tonight – this is waaaay better than 06 or 08. more popcorn my dears ?
Hey Jon Walker – thanks. I hear they’re almost done recalibrating the abacus in NH :D
Good to see you back. Best wishes to your college kid. I’ve been through a divorce (30-some years ago) and seen two kids through college. Doing both at the same time could be rough. Glad you’re hanging in there.
oh BFL, that first one is tough – my little hard ass all but made me sign a blood oath that I would not cry in the dorm
Karl can do the math. They’ve lost a House seat and failed to pick up a Senate seat. I wonder what the next Karl Rove-Dick Armey conversation will be like.
I’ll be checking back in. My neighboring district is a good race – Alan grayson pisses of republicans like you can only imagine. Anything happens I’ll bring you the local word. But it’s late back east and my meds are kicking in, so it’s off to bed for me. Night guys.
Me too. I promised I would save it for the plane back. But the airline screwed that up, took us off the plane, sent us to anoter gate to wait for a new plane, blah, blah. i was just so pissed I forgot to cry. G’night.
lol on the HCR, some Party hack was posting a super groovy study tonight on FB to prove HCR was in fact, “the largest middle class tax cut” evah ! It was a Lewin Group* study, touted by Ron Pollack*
oh hi, I’m from Firedoglake, and I’m here to help !
*wholly owned United Healthcare subsidiary, and Pollack made the deals with the stakeholders
Unless Chris Coons has been running a kiddie-porn operation, we held on to a Senate seat last night.
“I wonder what the next Karl Rove-Dick Armey conversation will be like?”
May I? Thanks :o):
Karl: “Dick! Can you believe this shit? The GOP has been getting hand jobs from the bible zombies and flat-earthers for decades, and now they want to be paid. These fucking ingrates!”
Dick: “Truedat, Karl. Where do these chickens get off, flying back to the roost and crapping on our pillows? How can O’Donnell win in the general? She’s already lost the hairy-palm vote, and it’s HUGE.”
Karl: “What are we going to do?”
Dick: “Three words: “electronic. voting. machines.”
Me: Having wrought this, I have to add: it’s too late for Obama to mount the salvage operation that he was so unspinnably hired for. He’s about to become one of the lamest lame-ducks in our political history…and this congressional democratic jellyfish herd, along with him.
All we have left is watching the republicans mindlessly chase each other around in the gigantic power-and-leadership vacuum with which Obama has gifted them.
It’ll be good for a few laughs, anyway.
Thassit.
Obama to the robber barons:
“Lesseee…forget the Public Option. And, I’ll tell Reid to take care of the Dorgan amendment and Pelosi can stuff those congers in the House who want to strip you guy’s exemption from anti-trust laws. Anything else?”
Uh, no. Dick Armey’s with Freedomworks which has been propping up the teabaggers with Koch brothers’ corporate money.
I imagine Rove calling Armey every name in the book right now for being so frigging stupid, creating monsters that the Republican Party and their corporate masters other than Kochs will not be able to harness.