National Journal: Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, earned a second term on Tuesday, defeating the youthful Republican state treasurer, Josh Mandel, in a race marked by a massive influx of outside spending. The Associated Press called the race with just 16
The AP has called Wisconsin for Democrat Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin. She defeats Republican Tommy Thompson to become America’s first openly gay U.S. Senator. Fox News called Wisconsin for Barack Obama. With the loss of Pennsylvania and Michigan, this means
Both Michigan and Pennsylvania have been called faster than North Carolina. The race is looking as tight as many expected.
Per the West Wing Report: NBC: Elizabeth #Warren has unseated the Republican incumbent, Scott #Brown, in Massachusetts Senate race. #Election2012 — West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) November 7, 2012
Sun Sentinal: WASHINGTON – Rep. Chris Murphy was elected to an open Connecticut Senate seat, delivering Linda McMahon her second defeat in three years. Murphy, who was projected to win by the Associated Press, will replace retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman,
Per NBC News: NBC News has declared Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson as the projected winner in the Florida Senate race. With more than 4.5 million votes counted at 8 p.m., Sen. Nelson had 57 percent of the vote to Republican
UPDATE: New exit polls show Obama picking up an edge in Florida and Pennsylvania. Keep in mind these exit poll internals do shift throughout the night. Below information is based on exit polls. So ASSUME THIS INFORMATION IS
A GOP source sent along some early turnout numbers from the swing state of Colorado. These numbers are a couple of hours old. But I want to pass along as much actual data as I can. Adams County (Lean D
On CNN, the correspondent with the Obama campaign reported that Team Obama is telling her that they see nothing in the Ohio turnout that looks any different from what they expected — in other words, the polls were correct. Take that for
Jack Healy of The New York Times tweeted out a link to Colorado Secretary of State spreadsheet that shows the final early vote count as close, but giving Repubs the lead: Dems: 653,450 Repubs: 688, 303 According to Nate Silver’s
Please take note that I’m saying this cautiously, but nothing I’m seeing thus far in these Ohio early vote counts matches the margin Obama enjoys in the polls early vote samples. Hard counts show that these margins are much tighter.
This is a big deal via the Hotline’s Josh Kraushaar: – Overall, early vote turnout OH up 2.44% in state. Down -4.1% in Obama/Kerry counties; up 14.39% in Bush/McCain counties. — Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 6, 2012 – This is
****UPDATE: Another report says Romney and Obama tied in early vote turnout when you look at the separate counties. Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: So says Gannett’s Cincinnati.com, which has the data from the state government posted at its
With small edits for clarity, a CorruptMedia tip from a reader: So much on “Today Show” hard to keep up: While interviewing a Romney spokesperson, Matt Lauer spent almost the whole interview attacking him on the Jeep ad & he
In Obama’s name: The father of a mentally handicapped woman claims his daughter and others were “carted off” to a North Carolina polling site last week and “coaxed” into voting for President Obama by workers of the group home where
The report about the New Black Panthers returning to the same Philadelphia polling place they were at in 2008 has been confirmed by Fox News with this video: – – In 2008, the Black Panthers were filmed at this
In the national polls, Barack Obama has had a difficult time hitting the magic 50% mark. Romney not so much. This morning we have a brand new poll (you can’t imagine how much I’m not going to miss having to
As Mary Katherine Ham points out, since this is the only data we have, it’s “EVERYTHING“: First in the nation Dixville Notch, N.H. casts five votes for Obama and five votes for Romney at midnight on Election Day. It’s the
Throughout this campaign season, especially over the last six weeks, I’ve read every conceivable argument for and against the polls; many of them math-based and scientific — but this one one from Ace is by far my favorite. A taste: Still,
There’s something more than just a little pathetic about this. It’s also all-kinds of creepy: – President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, eliminating the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks: twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November
Libya, Sandy, and actual early vote hard counts — three stories the CorruptMedia doesn’t want to talk about. Oh, the CorruptMedia will talk all day about early voting in the context of juicy-juiced polls, many of which greatly exaggerate what we
The media is all kinds of happy to dig into the backgrounds of everyday citizens who appear in Romney campaign commercials, but this kind of research has to be done by New Media: Also from the 5/21/1995 appearance — Axelrod thinks
Normally, I don’t watch MSNBC’s Hardball; there’s really no point. Chris Matthews used to be interesting, but now he’s just bitter and a little nuts. But I wanted to take a look today to see how Tweety McTingles was looking,
According to Mark Knoller at CBS News, Obama’s campaign press secretary, Jennifer Psaki, says the President has “absolutely no regrets” about suggesting his supporters use voting as a tool of vengeance against Mitt Romney. If you recall, last week, the president of
Romney just announced that he will be making stops tomorrow — Election Day! — in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The campaign obviously see things as close (and close enough) and are leaving nothing to chance. According to this report of
