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03 Nov 2010 10:27

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U.S.: The season’s saddest-but-most-uplifting election

Democrat Jenny Oropeza died only two weeks before the election, but was still able to pull out her California State Senate victory on Tuesday. source
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03 Nov 2010 10:17

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Politics: Black senators: The election’s most depressing statistic

  • 0 black senators; but on the plus side, no Roland Burris anymore source
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03 Nov 2010 10:10

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Politics: Lisa Murkowski hopes people know how to spell her last name

  • 41% of votes went to write in votes, presumably for Lisa Murkowski
  • 34.2% of votes went to Joe Miller, who’s not willing to give up his fight
  • 23.7% of votes went to Scott McAdams, who won’t be heading to DC source
  • » When will we know? It’s probably going to be a while. The issue of “voter intent” will likely come up in this election with the write-ins, which will inevitably have misspellings due to the fact that Murkowski has a complicated last name. (Though Murkowski has done tons of work to let people know how to spell it.) Miller’s folks won’t concede until after there’s been a hand count.
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03 Nov 2010 01:18

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Politics: Posted without comment: Chris Matthews being a (hilarious) jerk

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03 Nov 2010 01:13

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Politics: Weed worries: Did Prop 19 pass muster in California?

  • NO but that’s OK; just fake an illness and call it “medical” source
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03 Nov 2010 01:08

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Politics: Fox News on Sharron Angle: Her loss leads to Tea Party questions

  • This is a race where there’s going to be a lot of Monday Morning Quarterbacking regarding the Tea Party.
  • Fox News analyst Carl Cameron • Bringing some perspective to the whole Harry Reid/Sharron Angle situation. As Cameron notes, the seat seemed likely to turn GOP … until Angle became the nominee. Reid was that unpopular in Nevada. But Angle proved to be a very weak competitor (even though she was in it until the end), meaning that Reid gets another six years, as well as another run at Senate Majority Leader. Honestly, this was the biggest loss of the night for the GOP, and one that they can attribute directly to Tea Party influence. source
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03 Nov 2010 00:50

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Politics: Update: The House and Senate’s balance; how it all holds up

  • yes the House will be heading to the GOP side; the prediction is currently 60-75 seats switching
  • no the Senate wil not go Republican; while a few seats went red, 51 are currently blue
  • yes Harry Freaking Reid held off Sharron Angle, preventing the biggest upset of the night source
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02 Nov 2010 23:42

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Politics: Russ Feingold: Poor fella. Down goes an incumbent.

  • Russ. Sigh. This is a race that was clear from the polling, but still a depressing loss. He was one of the country’s better Senators, and was more willing to go with his gut than the lot of them, most famously when he voted against the PATRIOT Act – he was the only one to do so. But Wisconsin has spoken, and Ron Johnson, a once-unknown who was against the health care bill, will take his place. That feeling is one of a dagger hitting the hearts of liberals everywhere. source
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02 Nov 2010 21:55

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U.S.: Don’t !*&@ with Frank: Barney Frank easily re-elected to House

Yeah, Frank’s doing alright. He may have had a somewhat tough re-election campaign, but he’ll spend another day chillin’ in the House. 16 terms, folks. source
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02 Nov 2010 21:38

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Politics: Oh Alan Grayson: We’ll miss you, you big lug you. Kinda.

  • It often seemed like Grayson putting on a piece of performance art, attacking Republicans with all the vitriol they normally use to attack Democrats, questioning their moral values and basic sense of humanity – and for this, people called him crazy.
  • Talking Points Memo writer Eric Kleefeld • Summing up the political career of Alan Grayson, a one-term congressman who perhaps had the most interesting career of any one-term congressman in years. He brought the kind of rage from the left that many on the left were used to hearing from the right. And for that, he goes home. He lost by nearly 20 percent. Dude fell hard. And flat. We will miss Grayson for the simple fact that he made the House more interesting while he was there. We won’t miss him because he was pretty much the best example of amplifying everything and hearing nothing – on either side. Jon Stewart might as well have done his whole rally to criticize Grayson’s media-attracting ways. source
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