Posted on 11/04/2014 2:08:21 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
Happy Election Day everyone! I figured I'd go ahead and get the election day thread started. Polls open on the east coast in a little less than an hour.
Please be sure to post observations of interest if you went to the polls today.
Kasich wins Ohio governor’s race. This was considered competitive at one point i think.
Early exit poll results from Edison Research in North Carolina indicate that voters are highly discontent with the direction the country is headed and generally worried about the economy.
Fully two-thirds of North Carolina voters say they think things in the country are “seriously off track.” Most of the rest say they think the country is headed in the right direction.
Cnn kasich in Ohio.
Easy. VA is about as easy to poll as Alaska. Meaning virtually impossible. Plus the pollsters are stupid and always rely on flawed models and urban areas to predict the unpredictable.
The culture in VA is very consensus based. Things change ona dime and when they do, they do so dramatically.
CNN just called Ohio for Gov. Kasich.
Good news for the Ohioans.
Now if only we had some news one way or the other about the governor’s race in Pennsylvania.
Good news, but I want to see Crist beaten in FL
Do you think Corbett has a shot?
Kasich has for the past month polled +15 to +30, most recently +20.
CHICAGO — Election officials here requested to keep a handful of precincts open an extra hour Tuesday after hundreds of election judges did not show up for work, possibly because of a series of malicious, inaccurate robo-calls that told would-be poll workers they would need more training and have to divulge who they voted for in order to serve.
The calls caused some polling places to open up to two hours late, said James P. Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.
The disruption had added significance because Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois, a Democrat, has been in a close race for re-election with Bruce Rauner, a Republican. Chicago is traditionally a Democratic stronghold.
“This was a false and disruptive sequence of events that put a damper on service, we believe,” Mr. Allen said.
Well, I voted against him.
placemark for later
Fox saying that exit polls suggest in Virginia, Mark Warner was underwater in approval, Gillespie wasn’t
I want to see Walker reelected in WI. It’s probably the race I’m most concerned about...
For more than a century, the heavily unionized counties of western Virginia and eastern Kentucky coal country were among the most reliably Democratic jurisdictions in the country.
President Obama suffered catastrophic losses in these areas, and it’s clear that it’s not just his problem. Alison Lundergan Grimes doesn’t lead in any county in coal country, many of which have never voted against a Democratic candidate for Senate. Mark Warner, who always excelled in southern Virginia, is running only slightly ahead of Mr. Obama in Buchanan County. Mr. Warner has 35 percent of the vote with 28 percent counted in Buchanan County. Even John Kerry won here a decade ago.
LOL. Far too early. Get out the popcorn.
so who is ‘ace of spades’ and does that mean it’s done for Gillespie?
If some of the anti-Obama momentum that’s putting Ed Gillespie into contention carried over to Pennsylvania, possibly. Corbett has been down for months, but I heard that he was closing the gap as of a few days ago.
I was undecided on whether to vote for Corbett myself until I saw that Obama made a campaign stop for Wolf.
It is too soon to say, but a wave may be building. If so, Walker will win. That is what many of us are praying for.
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