Dems take the Senate

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ Nov 8 2006, 10:58 AM) [snapback]345474[/snapback]</div>

A recount is likely in Virginia. Question: Were these electronic votes and if so, how are electronic votes recounted?

 

Recounts in VA and MT will occur, either because a candidate requests it, or automatic statutory requirements in close elections.

The Dems are leading in both races by a few thousand votes, with >99% reporting.

VERY encouraging, especially in VA where the remaining precincts are northern areas of the state that vote democratic anyway.

In MT, the repub candidate is one of the abramoff (sp?) corruption clique. It will be a sorry irony if the repubs hold on to the Senate with one of their leading scumbuckets. If he wins, will he be allowed to vote from a jail cell ?

 

The republicans will probably make a big deal of Virginia...then sneak into Montana with some dangling chads and win by a few hundred votes. Could be the movie of the week soon.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(huskers @ Nov 8 2006, 12:11 PM) [snapback]345544[/snapback]</div>

The Supreme court has already been notified to be ready for the conference call to stop the recount.

 

It looks like it's all up to Virginia now. I've heard a couple reports that Montana has been called for the Democrat.

 

Yep, and Webb is up ~ 8000 votes in VA.

I think it will be surprising if the Senate does not end up in democratic hands.

To the Neo-cons, I say GOOD RIDDANCE from the federal government, and fervently hope they go to Iraq before the war ends. That of course is only wishful thinking, chickenhawk cowards that they are.

 

"To the Neo-cons, I say GOOD RIDDANCE"

The neocons seemed to me to represent the dark side of the American psyche. On the one hand you have all the good qualities about Americans - optimism, energy, confidence. That was the US when I first came here in 1996. Then the sky darkened with impeachments, Ken Starr - it just got worse and worse. Then came Bush and corruption, paranoia, false terror attacks, wars, deficits, fear, lies, and a rejection of reality itself in favor of "faith-based" government. Pearle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney - I think the whole neocon movement will be seen as the worse thing that happened to the US since Vietnam. The neocons were not conservatives. They were dangerous radicals. Conservatives do not take a budget surplus and turn it into the biggest deficit in history. They don't promote torture. They don't cancel habeus corpus. They don't spy on their own citizens. Speaking as a social democrat, there is much to admire in true conservatism. The neocons were not conservatives, but nasty, arrogant fascists. Good riddance.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Nov 8 2006, 02:09 PM) [snapback]345675[/snapback]</div>

How open-minded and non-judgmental of you, sir.

 

You may be open minded about torture, kangaroo courts, loss of habeus corpus, state abduction of citizens and senseless murder of hundreds of thousands of innnocents, but I am anything but.

As Jared says, Neo-cons are rabid fascists, advocating for a totalitarian regime in the US. I wish them a speedy trip to hell.


Prez1, as the bumper sticker says: if you are not angry, you have not been paying attention. Out of curiousity, did you READ the recently enacted torture act (aka military commisions act) or did you just take someone's word for it's substance, assuming you know anything about it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Nov 8 2006, 02:57 PM) [snapback]345716[/snapback]</div>

Quit waffling, EricGo, and tell us how you really feel. :lol:

 

As of noon, VA time, 0.12% of the vote, or about 2400 votes, had not been tallied, but Webb was ahead about 7500 votes.

So unless a recount takes place that finds errors, Webb wins, and the Senate is democratic.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Nov 8 2006, 02:57 PM) [snapback]345716[/snapback]</div>

...There you go again.....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(prez1 @ Nov 8 2006, 02:32 PM) [snapback]345688[/snapback]</div>

Funny how when they won by a slight majority (don't pull out that tired old red/blue map again; I'm talking actual numbers), it's suddenly "political capital" and a "firm mandate." When the Democrats trounce them, it's "a sign America wants bipartisan politics."

Finally, he *IS* a uniter, not a divider! Unfortunately for him, not the way he intended.