Less than a week to go, early voting is already underway, so I figured it was a good time to start this thread.

Results website to watch on election day:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/22580/35828/en/summary.html

Although we don't know who people are voting for, we actually have some elections results for people who have voted so far in terms of demographics & party affiliation:
ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/ENRS/absentee11xx02xx2010_Stats.pdf

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"2010 General Election Absentee Stats for 11/02/2010 updated:10/28/2010"

Keep an eye on that last updated when number in the top left whenever looking at that site.

So far more Dems have voted that Reps, but a higher percentage of the registered Reps have voted than Dems (I expect that is more common for midterms like this) so its hard to make any surefire predictions off that. 586 of the 9,092 Libertarians have voted so far.

Actual election day results will be here soon enough though.

10/28/2010 11:12:20 PM

Bump for election day!

966 of 9,092 Libertarians have voted so far.

11/2/2010 6:12:20 AM

Make that 967, I'm in line with my comrade obama tee shirt over my work clothes.

Based on the hybrid vehicle I saw parked outside I think my vote already got cancelled out though.

11/2/2010 6:30:32 AM

CNN projecting....

Paul in Kentucky

Leahy in VT

DeMint in SC (obviously)

Coats in Indiana (turning Republican)

on another note - i FUCKING LOATHE wolf blitzer... sooooo goddammed annoying

11/2/2010 7:02:15 PM

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"Paul in Kentucky"

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"DeMint in SC"

RIP Alvin Greene

11/2/2010 7:11:01 PM

I'm curious to see how prop 19 does.

11/2/2010 7:12:46 PM

Portman takes Ohio - not a shocker.

11/2/2010 7:31:04 PM

Im curious what CNN is basing their declaration of Coons as winner in Delaware on if both candidates have 0% of the vote so far.

11/2/2010 8:13:36 PM

^ It takes very little sample size to call a race, especially if the sample matches expected percentages. They become harder to call when a candidate is doing much better than expected in an area. It just takes broad, small samples to make clear victory calls.



FYI, your typical opinion poll for a national issue samples 1000 people. That's a really easy sample size to hit during an election.

[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2010 8:41:16 PM

Sadly the evil Richard Burr has returned

also I fully expect another 2012 campaign to "Bring Back Baron" in the district where I went to college

11/2/2010 9:09:48 PM

I'm not a republican but Rand Paul's speech from KY was really good.

11/2/2010 9:12:44 PM

damn, richard burr is mediocre.



Democrats going to get raped

11/2/2010 9:13:13 PM

so how many 3rd party candidates actually won?

11/2/2010 9:13:30 PM

Don't blame me, I voted for the soldier.

Awww the witch lost. I want to call Hannity tomorrow and laugh at him after he swore today that she'd win.

11/2/2010 9:22:28 PM

that cuban guy wins and immediately makes some statement about why christianity is supreme to everything, this is what makes me scared of conservatives in this country

11/2/2010 9:43:43 PM

Don't blame me, I voted for the cold-blooded killer.

11/2/2010 9:50:50 PM

^^so basically conservatism is what makes you scared of conservatives

not that there's anything wrong with that, I too believe that conservatism is inherently evil

11/2/2010 9:58:07 PM

The incumbents cleaned up.

11/2/2010 10:21:34 PM

[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 10:44 PM. Reason : ]

11/2/2010 10:44:21 PM

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/



[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM. Reason : ]

11/2/2010 10:44:21 PM

holy shit PA - sestak and toomey are only 7k votes apart....

11/2/2010 10:45:59 PM

Ellmers!

11/2/2010 10:49:04 PM

Damn it! The state senate went to social conservative control. Last time they only took to the 2nd day of the session to introduce the anti-marriage for gay couples amendment.

We were the only state in the south without one. Not any more.

We'll probably lose the step towards comprehensive sex ed too since it was unanimously opposed by the GOP.

11/2/2010 10:50:11 PM

loving this

11/2/2010 10:53:12 PM

^^

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"The state senate went to social conservative control."

That's what people get for supporting the bar and restaurant smoking ban...

11/2/2010 10:53:45 PM

toomey is pulling ahead... i can't tell if it's the bigger cities that are still left to count or if it's the outlying areas....

11/2/2010 11:03:01 PM

outlying areas

Nate Silver projects that if the trend continues, Toomey will end up winning by about 30,000 votes

11/2/2010 11:11:10 PM

the biggest question is how many absentee ballots that there are

11/2/2010 11:13:26 PM

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"^^so basically conservatism is what makes you scared of conservatives not that there's anything wrong with that, I too believe that conservatism is inherently evil"

i associate it more with republicanism, I'm sure there are more secular countries out there with conservatives that actually have moderate religious beliefs, too bad we just have a two party system so you can't separate the two, I did like rand paul's speech



[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 11:19 PM. Reason : k]

11/2/2010 11:17:40 PM

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/maine

fuck this state forever if cutler doesn't win.

11/3/2010 12:19:33 AM

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" California Proposition 19 - Legalize marijuana 43.7% YES 56.3% NO Last updated: 12:17AM EDT // 16% reporting Arizona Proposition 203 - Medical marijuana 49.17% YES 50.83% NO Polls close at 7PM MT // 49.57% reporting // 1110 of 2,239 precincts reporting South Dakota Measure 13 - Medical marijuana 36.18% YES 63.82% NO Polls close at 8PM CST // 85.08% precincts reporting // 673 of 791 precincts reporting Oregon Measure 74 - Regulate medical marijuana 43% YES 57% NO "

This is more upsetting to me than anything. While many people are uneducated regarding the candidates, these measures were explained right on the ballot. People are voting against the right to do with their own bodies as they please, by a wide margin. We have a long way to go.

11/3/2010 12:43:02 AM

its the age demographic and nothing else.

they will never get that passed in the next 10-15 years until the old folks die and stop voting.

11/3/2010 12:44:29 AM

And yet a shred of sanity remains although I will miss continuing to say Sharron "Obtuse" Angle. I, too, would like to see Chuck as the Majority Leader.

11/3/2010 12:50:23 AM

pretty good night for the repubs

11/3/2010 12:51:50 AM

Someone pushed the wrong button in Colorado...the vote total in Boulder County was just a minute ago 54,374 Bennett (D), 23,827 Buck (R)...but now FoxNews and 538 now both showing 64,185 Buck and 55,186 Bennett

...now all of the outlets are showing this. No way it is correct, Boulder county is one the biggest Dem strongholds in the state. I wonder how long it will take them to fix it?

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 1:00 AM. Reason : .]

11/3/2010 12:51:54 AM

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"pretty good night for the repubs "

yeah for the politicians, not for the typical voter

gonna love watching the rubes lose even more

11/3/2010 12:55:34 AM

Any prop counting on stoners to get out & vote will never pass

11/3/2010 1:14:08 AM

heh..write in winning early in Alaska...

11/3/2010 1:32:59 AM

So, we should be prosperous for the next couple of years, right?

11/3/2010 1:38:25 AM

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"Any prop counting on stoners to get out & vote will never pass"

Stoners oppose prop 19.
Moms and cops support it.

(get your facts rights before commenting)

11/3/2010 2:04:33 AM

i just think it's hilarious how crazy the conservatives went about trying to oust harry reid and he still won

11/3/2010 7:45:46 AM

If they haven't picked Angle - they might have had a chance

11/3/2010 8:06:14 AM

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"i just think it's hilarious how crazy the conservatives went about trying to oust harry reid and he still won "

Yes, the night was a total disaster for the GOP. lol

11/3/2010 8:30:39 AM

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"its the age demographic and nothing else."

Keep in mind this is also a) a midterm election with low turnout and b) an election which is driving hard for conservatives.

While I'd like to see marijuana (and a number of other drugs legalized) this was a bad year to try.

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"I, too, would like to see Chuck as the Majority Leader."

Schumer? What an asshat and I mean that personally. Most people I know who have worked with the guy say he's a raging cock-bag and can't stand him. He is, however, more of a populist and is not politically tone deaf like Pelosi or Reed.

11/3/2010 8:38:38 AM

Or Reid.

11/3/2010 8:46:13 AM

Him too.

11/3/2010 8:57:59 AM

Things got moved around and now Ron Paul is the chair of the Monetary Policy Subcommitee.

should make things interesting

11/3/2010 1:14:12 PM

Nice. That won't keep the Fed from shitting out (at minimum) another 500 billion though.

11/3/2010 1:23:55 PM

Try $600B: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sectionfronts/business/index.html?hpid=topnews

11/3/2010 3:31:15 PM

THANK GOD the guy dumb enough to think homosexuality is a choice (who has a gay name anyway) didn't make it

11/3/2010 6:23:11 PM