McCaskill Wins!Webb Stretches Lead! It's Up To Montana

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:17:51 AM EST
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UPDATE- Strange rumor of a recount in Yellowstone County in Montana. I never heard of such a thing. A recount of a precinct before the votes are counted? Just bizarre.

Bizarre but true. The vote totals for the candidates just had the Yellowstone totals subtracted. They are recounting in the middle of a damn vote count!! Never heard of such a thing.

Claire McCaskill Wins! Webb is now up by 12,000, outside the recount total! It is up to Montana now.

Tester leads by 10,000 votes, 51-47.

I actually have good sources on that race and it looks good I am told. Yellowstone is in. Tom Brokaw got it wrong on TV so ignore that. Gallatin is what we are waiting for and then we should be able to to celebrate a Jon Tester win. Hopefully.

Pombo is losing to McNerney in CA-11. Grant has a decent chance in ID-01. We can stretch our lead in the House maybe.

Latest word on Montana - worries about Flathead. Hold on to your hats. It's close.

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Right on. (none / 0) (#1)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:18:46 AM EST

Yessss!

Where's Jim tonight? (none / 0) (#2)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:21:08 AM EST

Roy? Gabriel? Demo whatever?


: PTSD (none / 0) (#3)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:33:51 AM EST

?

: What? (none / 0) (#20)
by roy on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 10:31:09 AM EST

Congratulations. The GOP deserved to lose, let's hope your guys deserved to win. My guess is they'll be great for 2 years, undoing the Right's damage, and then make a dash for sweeping Liberal policies that I can complain about.
I was hoping for a 50-50 split in the Senate, because gridlock is as close to small government as we're going to get, but that's looking less likely.
I have an interest in Montana because I was born there, and my parents will be retiring there soon. Jon Tester doesn't sound too bad. He's a Liberal, but he's a Montana Liberal, that's a different beast.
Biggest disappointment was reading that Pelosi had promised not to impeach Bush. I know it's a political reality and all, but if we can't trust the Dems to uphold the law, how can we trust them to write it? That, and she put down the Colbert Report.

HASTERT (none / 0) (#4)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:36:05 AM EST

was right...

Yewllowstone & Gallatin (none / 0) (#5)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:48:23 AM EST

Yellowstone has gone with the ultimate Senate winner all six times since 1988. Schweitzer thinks Tester can carry Gallatin, too.

Sure (none / 0) (#6)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:51:05 AM EST

It looks pretty good. But I am hearing some concern and from the people there.

For once, I have good sources.


That's ok... (none / 0) (#7)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:53:41 AM EST

The whole picture tonight is more than I really dreamed of already.


: Not for me (none / 0) (#8)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:56:21 AM EST

This is the big one.
Tester is going to be a significant politician.
I hope.

I hope. (none / 0) (#9)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 01:57:19 AM EST

I'm with you on that!

Right down to the wire.... (none / 0) (#10)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:05:20 AM EST

Updated: 12:55 MST With 74 of precincts reporting and the last straggling votes from Yellowstone County and some of those in Gallatin County coming in -- Democrat Jon Tester is still holding a tenuous lead

Forget that (none / 0) (#11)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:09:34 AM EST

The Republican Secretary of State in Montana ordered a recount of Yellowstone County.

Just amazing.

Lawyers get on your planes.


recount? (none / 0) (#12)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:11:33 AM EST

Why? What his reason?


: No effing clue (none / 0) (#13)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:12:27 AM EST

This is unprecedented.
I have never heard of such a thing.

It was a dumb question. (none / 0) (#14)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:15:09 AM EST

It was a dumb question. Republican Secretary of State. They don't reason. They just do.

: reason? (none / 0) (#16)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:20:57 AM EST

They just do. What they're told to?

HIGH FIVE! (none / 0) (#15)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 02:18:35 AM EST

HIGH FIVE on the whole day, Big Tent! Jeralyn too! Thanks to both of you for your long hours and hard work. You guys are the best.

Perfect sh!tstorm indeed!

I need more sleep. Morning comes early for me... Talk to you tomorrow.

re: recount (none / 0) (#17)
by skiddum on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 06:56:52 AM EST

I thought that only a 1% margin was needed to do the recount? In this case, the total votes are ~2.4M, which means 24,000 margin. Or is the 1% of the votes of the one candidate? Eg, 1.2M for Webb, --> 12,000 for 1% margin?

: Flubber in Montana (none / 0) (#18)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 07:21:25 AM EST

Flub leads to county recount.
Yellowstone County Election Administrator Winslow is saying he made a mistake due to "unfamiliarity" with new software for his three vote-counting machines and that a "software flub" may have meant 3000 absentee ballots were "counted twice".

More good news. (none / 0) (#19)
by Edger on Wed Nov 08, 2006 at 07:52:55 AM EST

Any minute now Tester is going to have it, it looks like.