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Rob Portman has won the Senate race in Ohio over Lee Fisher. Portman, the former OMB Director under George W. Bush, was widely expected to win. Fisher handed his entire war chest at the end of the race to the Ohio Dem Party for GOTV efforts and went dark on television.
The OH-Gov race between Ted Strickland and John Kasich, on the other hand, is too close to call. That extra money could come in handy. Sherrod Brown is very encouraged and “confident” that Strickland will pull it out there, which would be enormous. I’m looking into information on the Attorney General’s race there; it’s a key race for the future of the foreclosure fraud investigation, with hard-charging incumbent Democrat Richard Cordray against former Republican Senator Mike DeWine.
In North Carolina and West Virginia, the races are seen as too early to call. Incumbent Richard Burr leads Elaine Marshall in NC, and Governor Joe Manchin leads Republican John Raese in WV.
The GA-Sen race still looks too early to call, which is a little surprising. I assume that will get cleared up when Atlanta districts start coming in.
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For the life of me, I cannot fathom anyone, anywhere voting for a candidate whose primary qualifications for office are “former Bush trade representative and budget director.” If there are two things that have hit Ohio particularly hard, it would seem to me to be trade and the Bush budget. I guess I don’t understand what motivates voters.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal
U.S. House – District 3 – General
Kentucky – 350 of 515 Precincts Reporting – 68%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Yarmuth , John (i) Dem 93,772 55%
Lally , Todd GOP 74,773 44%
Martin , Edward Lib 1,372 1%
Hansen , Michael Ind 921 1%
MSNBC calls Delaware for Coons
God: ‘You know, I will stand for a lot. Rand Paul, Boehner as speaker… but O’Donnell is a bridge too far.’
Rubio wins, has 50% of the counted vote, making all that last-minute jockeying for Meek to drop out particularly absurd.
Gays, Guns, God, Fear, Stupidity…. Not necessarily in that order
The Courier-Journal did have the check mark next to Yarmuth’s name but it apparently did not translate to the copy and paste
But have you ever known of an opportunity for the D pols to embarrass themselves that they ever passed up?
Lexington Herald-Leader:
November 02, 2010 – 08:04PM ET
U.S. House – District 6 – General
Kentucky – 458 of 640 Precincts Reporting – 72%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Chandler , Ben (i) Dem 81,829 51%
Barr , Andy GOP 79,748 49%
If Yarmuth and Chandler win, the Democrats might just hold the House.
Turnover in Delaware, Castle’s House seat goes to Democrat John Carney.
Thanks, Christine!
Do you mean that in 2010 there’s still kookiness that is too kooky for even Rs? That’ll be gone by 2012. I can hardly wait.
Predicting that in 2012 we’ll looking back on 2010 with nostalgia about how sane it was.
Ohio Gov
Strickland (D) 52
Kasich (R) 44
Well, Portman was an Ohio congressman for a dozen years. He didn’t have to learn retail politics from scratch.
It looks like Blumenthal has won in WV.
We lost AR because Halter was punked by the DINOs
That’s assuming you have a reason to mark the first Tuesday in November for a nostalgic look back, or if a jackboot hasn’t clouded your memory. If we do have another chance to vote in my lifetime, it may as well be Green, I’m tired of slow death or quick death with the Republican/Democrats.
I never thought I’d regret watching Voinovavich leave.
http://my.firedoglake.com/michaelkwiatkowski/2010/11/02/ohio-election-coverage-2010
There’s my coverage of the Ohio races, such as it is.
?? ABC News & MSNBC have Kasich 50%, Strickland 46%
I hope they’re wrong & Washington Post is right.