Dems win another seat in the House, recount is
over in CT, GOP incumbent lost

post from AMERICAblog on 14 November 2006 11:37:00 PM. © AMERICAblog

Excellent.

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 14 November 2006 11:30:03 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Behold—the air guitar T-shirt…

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CT-02: 91 votes

post from Daily Kos on 14 November 2006 11:29:48 PM. © Daily Kos

Talk about every vote counting.

A roller-coaster recount that uncovered vote-counting flaws in several Connecticut towns gave Democrat Joe Courtney a narrow victory over three-term Republican Rep. Rob Simmons on Tuesday.
Courtney won by 91 votes instead of the 167-vote margin counted on election night, according to results tabulated by 65 town clerks and reported to The Associated Press. Nearly 250,000 votes were cast.

Chris Shays in CT-04 is the last Republican congressman in all of New England.

He can switch parties if he wants to survive. Because otherwise, we're taking him out in 2008. And he won't have Joe Lieberman helping him with GOTV.

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One Is The Loneliest Number

post from Eschaton on 14 November 2006 11:24:00 PM. © Eschaton

Chris Shays is the last Republican House member from New England.

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Does this blog have what it takes…

post from Gun Toting Liberal on 14 November 2006 11:17:00 PM. © Gun Toting Liberal

… to make it as an eventual finalist in The Weblog Awards - 2006 for their “Best Centrist Blog” category?If you think so, please take a moment and go cast your vote for Team GTL and your Gun Toting Liberal blog - all in good fun, of course. For your vote in our [...]

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TWO MORE HOUSE SEATS DECIDED-- JOE COURTNEY WINS
AND DARCY BURNER WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL 2008 TO CLAIM HER SEAT

post from DownWithTyranny! on 14 November 2006 11:14:00 PM. © DownWithTyranny!

Recounts are proceeding furiously in several states. I was contacted by both the DCCC and the DNC today about their hopes. The DNC pointed out 6 races in which they felt there was a good chance for Democratic victories: OH-02 (Victoria!), OH-15, CT-02, NC-08, FL-13 and NM-01. The DCCC, of course, was primarily concerned about Rahm's Republican-lite shill candidate, Christine Jennings (most likely a victim of election fraud; karma). For Darcy Burner fans this sounded ominous and-- sure enough-- Darcy has conceded. She did a spectacular job and came so close.

This evening the race in Connecticut came to an end when the final recount showed Joe Courtney had beaten rubber stamp Republican Rob Simmons by 91 votes. Next time someone tells you that their vote doesn't matter...

Less than 500 votes separate Larry Kissell and Robin Hayes in NC-08. There's a hand count of provisional ballots. Ohio's Secretary of State is showing a 2,800 vote advantage to Mean Jean Schmidt over Victoria Wulsin in OH-02. Approximately 8,600 provisional ballots are still uncounted and most of those are probably Democratic voters. In a press release today, the Wulsin campaign explained that "Provisional ballots were issued to many voters on election day in place of regular ballots, often because poll workers were unclear about what forms of identification were permissible under Ohio's new voter ID laws. In Hamilton County, some of the highest numbers of provisional ballots were issued in precincts where Paul Hackett won over 70 percent of the vote in last year's special election." In the 15th CD, where Deborah Pryce is ahead by 3,500 votes, over 18,000 uncounted provisionals and absentees remain to be counted.

In New Mexico rubber stamp incumbent Heather Wilson is ahead by around 1,500 votes but neither provisional nor absentee ballots have been counted yet. The last SUSA poll (released on the day of the election showed Madrid a full 2 points ahead of Wilson). Wilson's lead has been steadily shrinking as more votes are counted.

As usual, the Banana Republic of Florida is a complete mess and the 13th CD will either end in court or even a re-vote. Currently Buchanan leads Jennings by 373 votes but there is an 18,000 vote undercount.

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Specter Introduces Foreign Eavesdropping Bill

post from TalkLeft on 14 November 2006 11:09:27 PM. © TalkLeft

Sen. Arlen Specter today introduced the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006." The ACLU responds:

Now is not the time for Congress to focus on controversial issues. The majority of the appropriations bills have yet to be adopted. If there is to be a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation in Congress, lawmakers must not legislate in haste and without a full understanding of the facts. If the new Specter bill were adopted, it would be reconciled with the horrible Wilson bill, putting the privacy of innocent Americans at great risk. Senators must remember: Americans are not the enemy. This is one issue on which the lame-duck Congress should ‘Just Say No!’"

The LA Times today agreed in an editorial, saying the bill was co-sponsored by Diane Feinstein and would make it easier for the NSA to bypass FISA's requirement of a court order in case of an emergency.

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Late Nite FDL: I Remember Blogstock

Wow, it's hard to believe that so much time has passed so quickly. My lucky tie is back from the cleaners, which means it's been a full week since CNN's Election Nite Blog Party at Tryst in DC. And given that we live in such an[...]

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C&L Late Nite Music Club with Paul McCartney,
Part 1

It's Twofer Tuesday!Calico Skies from Flaming PieI heard an interview once where Paul said he challenged himself to write a song in the time in took Linda to complete a session of chemotherapy. This song was one of the results and a personal favorite of mine. Use this comment thread for your music posts.

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Late Nite Music Club with Paul McCartney, Part 2

Maybe I'm Amazed (All music and products purchased through the links provided help fund C&L. Your support is appreciated)The comments are closed for this thread. Please use the comments on the post above.

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