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Outcome Uncertain in 8 House Races
Breitbart.com ^ | November 10, 2006 | Philip Elliot

Posted on 11/10/2006 1:08:13 PM PST by madison10

Eight House races remain without winners after Tuesday's election, with Republican incumbents in tight contests to keep their seats and state officials not rushing to end the dispute.

Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, is ahead in her central Ohio race by 3,536 votes. In the Columbus, Ohio- area, elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18.

Elections officials in that district will start counting Nov. 19.

Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin, who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.

Of the eight uncalled races, only one _ Joe Courtney's challenge to Republican Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut _ gives a Democratic challenger the lead. In that race, Courtney is ahead by a scant 166 votes. Almost a quarter of a million votes were cast.

A Thursday recount in Hebron, Conn., gave Simmons one more vote. Recounts were scheduled in 74 other towns through the weekend.

In Florida, a recount is set to begin Wednesday in Rep. Katherine Harris' former district. Republican Vern Buchanan has a 373-vote lead and has declared victory over Democrat Christine Jennings. The Associated Press has declared Buchanan the winner.

In Georgia, first-term Democratic Rep. John Barrow, facing a rematch against former Republican Rep. Max Burns, leads by fewer than 600 votes.

In Washington state, the count in a suburban Seattle district was delayed by heavy flooding, leaving incumbent Republican Rep. Dave Reichert ahead of challenger Darcy Burner three days after voting ended.

Other races that remain undecided include North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes' campaign against Larry Kissell, separated by 449 votes; and New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson's race, where Democrat Patricia Madrid trails by about 1,600 votes.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; house; stillcounting; uncertain
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To: juliej
JD should never have been in this trouble - what happened?

I don't live in JD's District, so I can't say for sure. From what I've heard his district has been becoing increasingly Democratic, and he's been on the Donks' "Hit list" for a while now.

There were numerous ads on the radio down here in Tucson (JD is up in the Phoenix area) attacking JD and Dubya for the high cost of Medicare. Basically saying that "JD and the President conspired to kill old people."

101 posted on 11/10/2006 5:01:37 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Liberalism in a parasite that ALWAYS kills its host.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

JD is a fine man - they are counting absentee ballots and I hope he wins.


102 posted on 11/10/2006 5:04:56 PM PST by juliej
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To: Owen

Gee, you mean like Harry Reid's NV land deals or the 90 K William Jefferson, D had hidden in his freezer that the MSM refuses to report??


103 posted on 11/10/2006 5:24:39 PM PST by AprilfromTexas
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To: unixfox
Posted all over the internet but who reads?

http://www.restoringamerica.org/Government/45_goals_of_communism.htm

104 posted on 11/10/2006 5:31:41 PM PST by Right_Rev (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: madison10

bttt


105 posted on 11/10/2006 5:44:06 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: All

You guys are responding incorrectly. The voters already were measured. Corruption scandals is why they voted as they did.

The point is not to complain that the media didn't cover Dem scandals. The point is . . . do not waste time on philosophy. Nothing philosophically needs to change.

The only thing that has to change is run squeaky clean candidates and focus only on corruption to the exclusion of other issues. Whether or not we had clean candidates who lost does not matter. The aura of the entire day was one tainted by a perfect storm of GOP corruption.

Wasting time on any other issue is counter productive. It does not matter what you think is important because there is no need to rely on your opinion. We have the data in the exit polls. The voters have ALREADY SAID it was all about corruption.

Dwelling on other things is just columnists hitting deadlines.


106 posted on 11/10/2006 5:57:32 PM PST by Owen
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To: WOSG

Do you have an updated place for results? The only results I can find show Buchanan ahead about 373 votes, but the only place I find this on the state site doesn't give the percentage of votes counted or anything about absentee or early or provisional votes. Actually it doesn't even give a date for those numbers only that it's the 'unofficial' results of the Nov. 7 vote.


107 posted on 11/10/2006 6:00:24 PM PST by Ruth C
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To: CharlesWayneCT
he is unelectable.

The minute he became the official Republican nominee, the MSM would turn on him. Every skeleton in his closet, and it's full of them, would be dragged out. All in the best interest of the country, doncha know /sarcasm

108 posted on 11/10/2006 6:02:39 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: madison10
elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18

Good to see they have their priorities straight.

109 posted on 11/10/2006 6:17:36 PM PST by montag813
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To: half-cajun

>> Anyone notice that the dems aren't conceding gracefully like the republicans did?

Republicans are conceding out of fear Schumer will run a credit report.


110 posted on 11/10/2006 6:21:57 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: hsmomx3

So the gay marriage amendment still may pass.


111 posted on 11/10/2006 6:25:29 PM PST by Hildy (RUDY GUILIANI FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008)
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To: pillut48
I don't think she actually accused him of that. She read a message she got from a constitutent who was in the military and quoted HIM as saying that.

Nazi Pelosi has said much worse about a sitting president and yet that parenthetical phrase is never used about HER.

112 posted on 11/10/2006 6:28:12 PM PST by IrishRainy (The only way BJ Clinton would have nailed bin Laden is if Ossama had been a White House intern.)
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To: madison10

BTTT!


113 posted on 11/10/2006 6:52:44 PM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity'. It's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
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To: madison10
"officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game..."

Yeah, Mr. Elliot, that word would be "vaunted," unless you were trying to say lots of folks jumped over the OSU-UM football game - which, come to think of it, wouldn't be such a bad idea...

114 posted on 11/10/2006 6:56:06 PM PST by Redbob
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To: half-cajun
"Anyone notice that the dems aren't conceding gracefully like the republicans did?"

There's a fine line between being "graceful" and being a pansy - and entirely too many Republicans are ont he wrong side of that line.

115 posted on 11/10/2006 6:57:34 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Lunatic Fringe
"...eight seats aren't going to make a difference in majority."

Make a big difference if one of those seats was yours.

116 posted on 11/10/2006 6:59:45 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Cowboy Bob

I heard some of those - the repubs betray their base by expanding medical coverage for old folks, and the ads focused on what was NOT given!

It was kind of like, "They've started paying for my house, but won't pay for my car - and I NEED my car. Throw those bums out!"

Greedy bastards.


117 posted on 11/10/2006 7:03:34 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: WOSG

Question: what are the top 20 most likely "RETAKE" seats?



Texas CD 22

Texas CD 23 has a runoff sometime in Dec.


118 posted on 11/10/2006 7:14:24 PM PST by deport
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To: WOSG

We had 232 last Congress. As for take back seats, how about all of them?


119 posted on 11/10/2006 7:20:03 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: madison10

It's not looking that good for Hayworth. Another 8,000 votes, and he's only made up a little ground
Hayworth: 72,124
Mitchel : 77,907
Severin : 4,953
Total: 154,984

I think after Thursday they were at 146,000, so it's about 9000 more votes, and Hayworth is now at 5883, which is closer than the 5923 (i think) he was yesterday, but only another 50 votes.

So at the moment while they ARE getting thousands of extra votes, whichever ones they are counting are breaking pretty evenly, and Hayworth needs to find a batch that goes hard for him.


120 posted on 11/10/2006 7:41:23 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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