The Senate Thread

Sorry, I said I wouldn't do this. But maybe it makes sense to have specific threads for specific topics.

Allen-Webb. Razor thin. Ridiculously thin.

The good news here is that the big Dem-leaning areas -- the DC suburbs -- have already been counted and added to Webb's total. The bad news is that the outstanding precincts are... who knows. Barone ran them down. Some rural, some majority black, some Allen areas, some Webb areas.

There's no specific reason to think Webb will overcome this small deficit, but there's no good reason to think he won't.

Meanwhile, Talent leads McCaskill, but only with one third of the votes counted, and I fear that big Dem areas like St. Louis will be the late-reporters, as Detroit is in Michigan.

As I'm sure everyone knows, Lieberman won, by about nine points. Six points more than the exit polls claimed he was leading by.

So there's that six point skew towards liberals over-eager to share their pain and anger with polltakers.

I don't know why everyone cares so much about this one. It's a Democrat. Sure, it's a vote in favor of the war, generally, but it's a vote against judges and everything else.

posted by Ace at 11:58 PM

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