10 p.m.: Southwest coming in; Update: Toomey, Sestak tied! Winners: Ron Johnson, Nikki Haley; Update: Kirk pulls into lead
posted at 10:00 pm on November 2, 2010 by Allahpundit
Senate races this hour: A pair of gimmes in Utah and Arizona for tea-party darling Mike Lee and Maverick, respectively, and then the main event in Nevada. Taking back the House was business; this one’s personal. So personal, in fact, that if Reid pulls it out — and the chatter I’ve been hearing all day suggests that he’s going to — then I’m afraid I’m going to have to drop the melting bunny video on you. I don’t want to do it. I have to do it.
In the House, look out for Blue Dog Walt Minnick to be swept away in Idaho. You may remember him as the only Democrat this year endorsed by a tea-party group (an endorsement later rescinded). The other big one is Ruth McClung’s longshot bid to knock off hard-left Raul “Please boycott my state” Grijalva in AZ-7. I had high hopes for that one after reading about McClung on Michelle’s site, but since we’re now looking at a big wave instead of an out-and-out tsunami, I’m assuming it’s out of reach.
Update: McCain’s race is called promptly at the top of the hour. On CNN, the Nevada exit poll has it … Reid 48, Angle 47. Gulp.
Update: Another bad omen: Ken Buck is apparently underperforming in some parts of Colorado. One of the big topics of political chatter that’s shaping up tomorrow is how the GOP managed a big House sweep but not a commensurate Senate sweep — especially if Angle, Fiorina, Miller, and Buck all go on to lose.
Update: America has its first Latina governor — and she’s a Republican. Susana Martinez’s win will be lost in the shuffle tomorrow but the party’s going to want to give her a high national profile to help recapture some of the Latino vote they’ve lost. Keep an eye on her this year and next.
Update: Don’t look now but Nikki Haley’s up by just one percent with 61 percent reporting. Her lead is less than seven thousand votes. I can’t wait to hear the explanations for that tomorrow.
Update: I figured Sestak would jump out to a lead on Toomey since traditionally cities in Pennsylvania report first, but with fully 61 percent in, Sestak leads by four points. Here’s a prediction: If Toomey does get upset after leading in virtually every poll all year, you’ll hear a lot of theories tomorrow about O’Donnell’s influence on the Pennsylvania race. They’ve already been circulating, but no one’s paid much attention to them since Toomey’s always been expected to win.
Are we really going to drop this seat?
Update: Sestak’s lead now 2.5 points with … 81 percent reporting.
Update: And a surprisingly grim hour turns grimmer: Hickenlooper has defeated Tancredo for governor in Colorado and Deval Patrick, unsurprisingly, has been reelected in Massachusetts.
Update: Meanwhile in Illinois, Mark Kirk’s down almost two points with 69 percent in. I’m starting to wonder just how many Senate seats we’re going to net tonight after all. Five, maybe? Hard to believe 10 were on the table just a few hours ago.
Update: A photo finish in Pennsylvania: With 85 percent in, Toomey is now ahead by four thousand votes.
Update: Something’s very strange: The NYT’s vote totals for Pennsylvania don’t add up to the ones on the Secretary of State’s page.
Update: Sweet relief: Ron Johnson has beaten Russ Feingold. And it’s not close, or at least not yet: With 29 percent in, he leads by 15 points.
Update: The page isn’t loading as I write this, but The State is reporting that Haley pulled it out in South Carolina. The final margin will be only a few points.
Update: The Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s site has Toomey by 11,000 votes with 90 percent reporting. Cross those fingers!
Update: Good lord — nailbiters all around suddenly. In Illinois, with 77 percent in, Mark Kirk now leads by half a point.
Update: With 92 percent in, Toomey now leads by 15,000 votes. Alternate headline: “Jittery blogger switches from alcohol to heavy drugs.”
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It really is mind boggling that the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, has so little respect for his office that he would actually try blame his ineffectiveness on a private citizen who simply broadcast his opinions. Pathetic!
chazmaz on May 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM
If Rush does live in Obama’s head, could he at least tell us what Obama was doing on the night of the Benghazi attack?
monalisa on May 14, 2013 at 9:37 PM
Dittos all.
Could be they identified the enemy and it is us.
Julian Bond had an interesting description of the Tea Party tonight.
Interesting times.
seesalrun2 on May 14, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Or maybe Obama is angry that he can’t forcibly nationalize the broadcast spectrum in total a la Hugo Chavez. Which is why he gets into these p***ing matches with Rush and Fox News.
Myron Falwell on May 14, 2013 at 9:47 PM
Good for Rush finding this new apartment. I hear there is plenty of empty space up in there; he should be able to get some good practice in on that golf swing of his.
Gingotts on May 14, 2013 at 9:53 PM
God bless Rush Limbaugh.
TitularHead on May 14, 2013 at 10:04 PM
What he does every night, watching Sportscenter of course. That’s such common knowledge that lobbyists have started advertising on ESPN just to get to him.
slickwillie2001 on May 14, 2013 at 10:25 PM
It can’t cost too much, there’s nothing there.
mmcnamer1 on May 14, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Even a thimble has space for a gnat, Mr.Limbaugh.
All the mockery of shout radio combined has not done one whit to halt his socialist agenda, or even really to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire until they were worth a hoot. So make your jokes about rent-free life…they’ve got the power and we don’t.
MelonCollie on May 14, 2013 at 11:11 PM
MMM-MMM-MMM!
Sir Loin on May 15, 2013 at 2:29 AM
Exactly right. You know when I essentially gave up on the American people and knew in my gut that this country had gone too far down the path of ignorance and facism? When there was no back-lash, no rising up against the incredible attacks on Sarah Palin and her children. And then this President who called Americans “the enemy” and those of us who defended the Constitution and criticised the press and the federal government for acting like a 3rd World dictator became “extremests”. The filth spewed by Hollywood became the “norm”. Veterans and people who opposed the likes of that butcher Gosnell were put on the terrorist “watch” lists and low-life, pedophiles were allowed to sexually abuse children in public while their parents looked on at our airports.
Now we learn that 7 muslims—chemists—were found at Boston’s water source and while Obama is busy persecuting Billy Graham, these innocent “researchers” are allowed to go their merry way. Why aren’t every one of them in jail awaiting a direct plane to their homeland? Why the hell are they in this county in the first place?
I’m very tired of the awful, souless country we’re passing on to the next generation. Degenerates in Hollywood glorify drug abuse, incivility, and ignorance and they are the pied pipers who shoulder the most immoral man who has ever sat in the Oval Office to lead us all over the cliff. I went to Lowes last week looking for stuff for a remodel in my house. I couldn’t read the freaking packages. I needed an interpreter because everything was in Spanish. I’d like to know why these people are here? They hate us. They want to turn us into Mexico and they burn our flag and insult and ignore our laws and we want more of them? And why are we allowing “students” from Muslim countries? Can anyone, anywhere point to any progress in bringing any Muslim country out of the 6th century? The only thing these “educated” Muslims do is provide technical expertise to blow us all up.
OK. Good grief. I haven’t been involved in any politics since the election because I was intimidated. I used to poo poo “conspiracy” theorists. And for six years I’ve watched the fruition of every, single theory out there. One of the same so-called “nuts” who predicted persecution and prosecution and camps for conservatives and Republicans is now telling us that Google is joining with the Bilderburgs for total power and thought control. Even last year, I would have dismissed this. Now? After the confirmation that the IRS is Obama’s personal SS, I’m paying attention. Now wonder these people want everyone’s guns and ammo.
Portia46 on May 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM
Rush also has the bad taste to not have attended Columbia or Harvard.
TimBuk3 on May 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Now THAT, I couldn’t care less about.
Ivy League schools have hopelessly fallen from vaunted institutions of higher learning to left-wing indoctrination centers…and places where all kinds of rich-brat capers go on and get covered up by daddy’s money.
MelonCollie on May 15, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Rush is now the most powerful man on earth…he dictates our policies, he dictates what the president can and cannot do…amazing that a radio talk show host, without one single vote, dictates the policy, foreign and domestic of the United States.
Truly, in this country, you can be anything you want, even president without being president…
right2bright on May 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Oblamo must recognize Rush as the Big Community Organizer on the right. It’s really the only thing prezzy is good at and he does like to clear the field of any competition.
Kissmygrits on May 15, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Limbaugh: “I live rent-free” in President Obama’s head
There should be PLENTY of room with nothing else occupying Obummers head space…much like our troll nonpartisan!
EEprom on May 15, 2013 at 10:38 AM
SCoaMF, forever the beta male to Rush’s alpha.
MNHawk on May 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Rush, you better not be paying any rent for living in Obama’s head: it’s an unfurnished sewer of a place.
PD Quig on May 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Rent free, baby! Freaking legend.
Decoski on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM
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