Election Night Steam of Consciousness
Some pundit the other day made what will probably stand up as the dumbest comment of the election season. He said that if the Senate ends up split 50/50, Dick Cheney will definitely have to finish out his term as Vice President so that he can break ties.
Virginia is still too close to call but it looks to me like Allen has built a small cushion with 61% reporting. (5:56)
It will be interesting to see what this election does for the Democrats' ability to recruit high-quality candidates for 2008. In a district here that has always gone Republican, we have a tight race between a one-term Republican congressman and an ex-Microsoft person with no governmental experience. I think the Democrats could probably have recruited a stronger opponent if they had known a year ago what they do now.
Bill Bennett says "we will see a movement to draft Rick Santorum" to run for President. Presumably this movement will be led by utter goofballs, if not literally by closeted Evangelicals using goofballs. (6:05)
CNN projects Lieberman will be reelected in Connecticut. What an affront to democracy!!! He should just finish the face slap by formally switching back to the Democratic Party once he resumes his seat. (6:10)
MSNBC's coverage features serial plagiarist Mike Barnicle. I wonder how many monitors he'll be watching.
MSNBC projects Cardin over Steele in the Maryland Senate race. Democrats hold that open seat. (6:18)
With 71% reporting, Webb is now 10 votes ahead of Allen. (6:24)
With 76% reporting, Allen now has a 22,000-vote cushion. (6:32)
MSNBC projects that Chafee will lose the Rhode Island senate race to Whitehouse. Keith Olberman is interviewing a subdued Dick Armey. (6:34)
Armey just made a reference to "the Reagan model of small government." Yeah. Small, inexpensive government.
How come they are able to call all these senate races and have nothing interesting to tell us about the House?
Perhaps Santorum could become our ambassador to France. That would be kind of fun to watch.
House report, finally. Charlie Cook on MSNBC reports that they are following 50 Republican seats and 7 Democratic seats, and so far the only 3 that have been called have switched from Republican to Democrat. (6:52)
Apparently the votes come in slower in the House races than in the Senate and gubernatorial races. I don't understand this because the votes are recorded on the same ballots.
I made a joke about this nearly two years ago when someone I had a blind date with said she couldn't imagine anything worse than Scalia becoming Chief Justice. Lack of imagination is such a turn-off.
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