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The Asylum Pundits on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:38:36 PM
Heh. This will be the only post of the night. Th8is will stay up all night and we will be updating this post until we head to bed. There will be no pattern as to who posts what updates. We will be posting here throughout the night.
We will start posting information on the Senate races and the important House races as the returns begin coming in. But there are a couple of notes to make before we really begin on this.
First, there are NUMEROUS reports of the irregularities around the country, including a couple polling places (in NM and OH) that came across the radio today where the polling places did not receive enough ballots. Falling short is one thing. Having only around 150-200 sounds deliberate.
Second, reports coming out of NJ state that many voters were surprised when they arrived at the polls this morning, and saw that Robert Menendez was alsready punched in on their machines. Typical. We heard reports like this in 2004 in Ohio and Massachusetts where John Kerry was already punched in.
Third, George Allen's campaign headquarters had no phone service for most of the day making it difficult to execute their GOTV plan.
Fourth, despite the exit polls being held until 5 p.m. we knew the story they would tell. Granted, they are not as bad as 2004, but they are still telling the same story: The Democrats are leading.
Fifth, The turnout numbers look good, showing increases on both sides, but still close--GOP: 32.95; Dem: 32.5. That was reported from a wire report on Sean Hannity's show this afternoon, so I have no link, to offer on that. We have yet to find it. But Hugh Hewitt has a couple of interesting posts concerning the turnout. And we need to remember that there was a lot of early voting, which throws the exit poll numbers under even more suspicion.
Marcie
4:35 p.m. AZ Time
UPDATE--4:58 p.m. AZ Time: Hugh Hewitt just stated that one of the exit polls showed that Lamont was beating Lieberman. Ex-squeeze me? Lieberman was kicking Lamont's @$$ by double digits YESTERDAY. Liebermen, to my knowledge, has only ever trailed to Lamont ONCE since going Indie on connecticut. Since then, Liebermna's beat him like a bongo drum.
GO VOTE! To H*LL with the polls.
Publius II
UPDATE--5:11 p.m. Lugar wins in Indiana with a resounding 52,000 vote victory.
UPDATE: 5:26 p.m. AZ Time--Early numbers for Allen show him in the lead with 1% of the precincts in, Allen leads Webb--40K to 28K
Marcie
UPDATE: 5:37 p.m. (all times AZ if you have not figured that out)--With 4% reporting in VA, Allen leads Webb 68K to 48K
UPDATE:5:47 p.m.--10% precincts reporting in VA, Allen leads Webb 120K to 97K
UPDATE: 5:54 p.m.--15% reporting in VA, Allen is ahead 175K to 153K. It appears that Allen is putting Webb to bed early.
UPDATE 6:01--MA goes to Kennedy; FL to Nelson
UPDATE: 6:15 p.m. Allen/Webb--380K to 372K; Corker leads Ford (I missed the numbers) From this point on head to our main site to keep up with coverage--> The Asylum