Aaaand Fox just called the PA governor’s race for Tom Wolf.
Great - the rest of the nation slaps Obama away, and we vote him in as governor. The gas tax is going to seem like nothing when Tom Wolf is done with this place.
Cochran Holds Onto Senate Seat in Mississippi
Senator Thad Cochran, the Mississippi Republican who fended off a tough Tea Party primary battle, handily defeated Travis Childers, the Democrat, to win another term in office.
Mr. Cochran, who has served in the Senate for 36 years, narrowly lost a primary to Chris McDaniel, a state senator who challenged his conservative credentials.
New Hampshire House | Two Close Races
Early results in New Hampshire suggest that while both House seats, held by Democrats, will be competitive, the First District race between Carol Shea-Porter, the Democratic incumbent, and Frank Guinta, the Republican who formerly held the seat, could be the closer of the two. The two were virtually tied early on. In the Second District, Ann McLane Kuster, the Democrat, held an early advantage over Marilinda Garcia, a Republican.
Virginia Senate | Mark Warner in Surprisingly Close Race
For most of the year, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, was thought to be an overwhelming favorite to win re-election. But the early returns suggest a far closer race than expected.
Mr. Warner is not running ahead of President Obama among the state’s culturally Southern, white voters, even though Mr. Warner has traditionally excelled in the southern part of the state.
The worst news for Mr. Warner comes in Culpeper County, a rural county outside of Washington, where the Republican, Ed Gillespie, won by 32 points, according to The Associated Press. Mitt Romney won by just 17 points in 2012.
ABC News:
The Florida State Board of Elections has denied Florida Democratic challenger Charlie Crist’s motion with the Circuit Court for the 17th Judicial Circuit to extend voting hours in Broward County that includes Fort Lauderdale. The area is understood to be a Democrat stronghold and is represented by Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Based on ABC’s analysis of preliminary exit poll results, Democrat Tom Wolf is projected to beat incumbent Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in an historic election. It will be the first time in 40 years (since the state began permitting two gubernatorial terms) that a sitting governor in Pennsylvania seeking re-election has been defeated. Gov. Corbett was one of the most vulnerable governors this campaign season. Wolf, a wealthy businessman and former Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, enjoyed a sizeable lead in the polls this fall after invested $10 million of his own money in a crowded primary.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Jack Reed wins Senate race in Rhode Island.
8:26 Stations are calling NH and MA for D
with Sheehan and Markey leading with a tiny fraction.
West Coast and Mid USA had better vote !!!!!!
Virginia Senate | Mark Warner Holding Strong in Suburbs
Senator Mark Warner is in a surprisingly close race with the Republican, Ed Gillespie, but there’s good news for Mr. Warner in the Richmond suburbs. Mr. Gillespie leads by eight points in Chesterfield County with 99 percent reported. That’s about the same as Mitt Romney in 2012, and Mr. Romney lost Virginia by four points.
Fox calls Arkansas for Tom Cotton. That’s another pickup: number two.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that Democrats will lose seats in the Senate but retain a 52-48 majority.
Biden said in a radio interview that he foresees Democratic victories in closely contested races in Alaska, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Georgia and a runoff election in Louisiana.
In a stunning blow to Democrats, ABC News can project Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., will win the Arkansas Senate race Tuesday night, based on preliminary exit poll results. Cotton is projected to unseat two-term Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, the first Senate Democrat to lose their seat this election cycle. This is the second seat Republicans have picked-up Tuesday night.
With 43% of precincts reporting, Gillespie (52%) is beating Warner (46%) in a race no one thought would be competitive. So what’s going on?
Here are some reasons to think Warner might not be in so
much trouble:
Only 7% of the vote is in in Fairfax, VA’s largest county, by far. It accounted for 14.4% of the vote in Virginia in 2006, the last Senate midterm in the state. Webb beat Allen there by 75k votes.
Arlington, another big D county, only has 21% in.
With 88% of the vote counted in Chesterfield County, which encompasses the suburbs south of Richmond, Gillespie (52.8%) is underperforming Allen ’06 (58.4%) and Allen ’12 (51.8%).
Turnout is up there slightly, but probably not enough to make a big difference.
Who are these turkeys that they got to cheer on the Gobbler’s headquarters? Sheesh.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic candidates alike had to overcome voters’ displeasure with their party leaders Tuesday as glum Americans expressed little faith that either side could get the U.S. back on course.
More than a third of those who voted for a Republican House candidate were dissatisfied or angry with GOP leaders in Congress, according to preliminary exit polls. A quarter of Democratic voters were similarly upset with President Barack Obama.
The biggest concern is still the economy, the surveys of people leaving polling places showed, six years after the 2008 financial crisis helped propel Obama to his first term in office. Although Obama’s name wasn’t on the ballot this year, some Republican candidates stood to benefit from complaints about his leadership.
Most voters say the economy is stagnating or getting worse under Obama’s watch. Just 1 in 5 say they trust the government to do what is right most or all of the time, slightly fewer than in the 1994 midterms, when Republicans seized control of the House and Senate, and the last time the exit poll asked that question.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have captured the Arkansas Senate race, which they have seen as key to their efforts to be in the majority in the new Congress.
Rep. Tom Cotton defeated two-term Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor after a heated and expensive race.
Republicans have made major gains in Arkansas over the past two elections, primarily by trying to link Democrats to President Barack Obama, who lost the state in 2008 and 2012.
Waiting for Results: Kansas
Voting ended at 8 p.m. Eastern Time in Kansas, but so far, less than 1 percent of votes have been reported.
NY Times: Cotton Ousts Pryor in Arkansas, For Second Republican Pickup
Representative Tom Cotton defeated Senator Mark Pryor in Arkansas, moving a vulnerable Democratic seat into Republican hands.
Mr. Cotton, a combat veteran who studied at Harvard and worked at McKinsey, becomes the youngest member of the Senate at the age of 37.
The defeat is a blow for Mr. Pryor, a two-term senator whose father was also represented the state, and shows the dynamic continuing to shift in a state that delivered former President Bill Clinton to the national political scene.