Straight ticket GOP.
Early indicators (rom Rollcall):
7 p.m.
Polls close in: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia
Bellwether race: New Hampshire’s 1st District
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
If she loses we’re going to rout the Dems.
Georgia: In 2012, Mitt Romney won Gwinnett County with 54 percent of the vote.
Political observers say David Perdue, the GOP nominee, needs to win Gwinnett by that same percentage.
N.C.” When Democrats lose statewide in North Carolina, they usually lose in Guilford. Hagan’s margins there will be an indicator of how the race is going.
owever, Wake and Mecklenburg are important due to sheer size. Hagan will probably win both of them, but watch for Tillis’ margins. These are counties where Hagan can run up the score while Tillis scores big in the more rural parts of the state. Political observers say she needs to run up a lead of about a 15 percent or more in those counties. Tillis needs to stay above 43 or 44 percent to hold on.
Key poll closing times for US Senate:
Kentucky 6:00 and 7:00 pm EST . . . Mitch McConnell (R) - Alison Lundergan Grimes (D)
Georgia 7:00 EST . . . David Perdue (R) - Michelle Nunn (D) - Amanda Swafford (L)
North Carolina 7:30 EST . . . Thom Tillis (R) - Kay Hagan (D)
New Hampshire 7:00 and 8:00 EST . . . Brown (R) - Shaheen (D)
Kansas 8:00 EST (a little bit at 9:00) pm EST . . . Pat Roberts (R) - Greg Orman (I)
Arkansas 8:30 EST . . . Mark Pryor (D) - Tom Cotton (R)
Colorado 9:00 EST . . . Cory Gardner (R) - Mark Udall (D)
Louisiana 9:00 EST . . . Cassidy (R) - Landrieu (D)
Iowa 10:00 EST . . . Joni Ernst (R) - Bruce Braley (D)
Alaska 12:00 EST . . . Dan Sullivan (R) - Mark Begich (D)
Straight ticket GOP.
Waxhaw, NC - Vote #133 - More than 2/3rds the voting action compared to 2012. Lotta seniors carpooling.
For the US House, I can vote for the baby-killing Democrat Congressman, or the baby-killing Democrat challenger. That's right, two democrats!
I guess I have some local offices and state propositions to vote on, but CA has become the dreariest of dreary blues. I now no longer mind the color-switch of the parties in 2000, as "blue" is the best way to describe the state I'm in.
Had to vote absentee ballot. Held my nose and voted straight Republican, Pat Roberts included. This needs to be his last term.
Fingers crossed.
"The various press organizations are now giving a 70% chance that the Republicans will take the Senate. There is a serious deficiency in competence within government everywhere. It appears that the corruption and politics have driven anyone with substance from the field. Who wants to go through all this crazy personal focus if you really are competent? The people who seem to gravitate to politics are those needing attention to verify that they exist. This is a sad state of affairs and it is having the most dramatic impact upon our lives. It is hard to say who is collectively more stupid – politicians or the public who vote for someone really expecting anything to change for the better?Things just have to get so bad that finally someone will step forward and do the right thing. If not – it’s just meltdown time. The Republicans are stupid and will only see their victory for their philosophies. No one will step forward and say the system has to change. A Republican victory may then set the stage for dramatic change in 2016. Why? Obama is killing the Democratic hopes, and just maybe the dirt on Hillary will surface. She is alleged to be a Lesbian who stays in the closet. When she first took office really running the White House, the Secret Service routinely patrolled the second floor. An agent walked in on Hillary and another woman. Hillary picked up an ashtray and threw it at the agent striking him in the head. When I was first told this story within weeks of them taking office, I said come on – is this what we have to listen to for 4 years? Then the Wall Street Journal published a tiny article saying that the Secret Service was banned from patrolling the second floor because one was inadvertently injured in the head. That was published with the watered-down version to confirm to all of us who knew the allegation behind the curtain was real.
When the economy turns down hard from 2015.75, there will be one year before the 2016 elections. That will be plenty of time to get politics ready to rock and roll. We may just see at last someone willing to step forward to clean house. They will have to start with the bureaucracy who has been the real president going on 16 years running now.
FoxNews was reporting on the costs of various mid-term elections.
NC — $114 million (IIRC).
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$114 million for a job that has an annual salary of $174,000.
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For the next presidential race, some are estimating at each major party will spend around $1 Billion.
[Imagine if Obama were paid by the hour of his actual time presidenting, he wouldn’t earn enough to qualify to pay income taxes.]
Well.I just went down to the Fire Hall and voted for Corbett. I wasn’t going to vote at all because I’m sick of the whole mess but thought different. The wife will vote after work.
Voted at 7:30AM in a heavily Democrat suburban district. It was me and the 6 Poll workers..... that’s it. Lord, please...... I pray that every other heavily D district in the country is exactly the same as mine!!
Bfl
I always vote at about the same time-between 9 and 10 AM. The polling place was unusually crowded. A busload of seniors from a retirement home was just rolling in as I left.
My precinct is generally pretty quiet, but today was the first time in recent memory that I had to wait in line.
Today was as busy as any presidential election.
Only four races on the ballot-Governor, US House, and State Senate and House.
2 of the four are reliably R, one is a new guy as a result of redistricting (but who campaigned heavily and should win), but the governor is almost surely lost (Corbett).
There are always lots of candidate signs around outside, but this time there were NO Rat signs at all. There were NO Rats handing out literature as I went in.
I was voter #71 at my polling place on the way in to work today. Almost nobody was there since the “early” crowd had already been in and most of the others were already at work.
I ended up voting for Corbett as governor. He’s a disgrace, but seeing Tom Wolf stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Obongo was a sinister portent that I do not care to take farther.
Since my sleazy Republican congressman voted for CISPA and I certainly wasn’t going to vote for his Democrat challenger, I wrote in “Cookie Monster.” Forget R and D; C is for cookie, and that’s good enough for me!
The Republicans will almost certainly retain control of the House, and the two candidates in my district are essentially identical, so that was a race I could afford to cast a protest vote in.
A light turnout here would be good for the Pubs. But Dems don't typically get up early, so too soon to make any predictions.
Vote cast in Live Free or Die State!
We just voted. It could not have gone any smoother. Republicans run the polling place. There is probably one or two dimcommies around here. There were 15-20 OLD folks voting. Several leaving as we arrived. Several driving up as we departed. Went in, showed photo ID, (my retired Military ID), signed the roster, got the page, marked vote all republican, pushed it through the counting machine, got my I VOTED sticker, and left. Took less than 7-9 minutes from the time we hit the door till we left. SMOOTH AS A NEW BORN BABY’S BOTTOM. No leftist, socialist, communist, homosexual, terrorist muslins near the place. Alabama is going solid republican again. There were maybe three or four running against a couple of the state races. But adds on TV shows the two biggest, one for governor and a state senator slot are solid Obama and his policies. They two will go down in flames. Alabama has had it with Obama, his communist, his FBI, his CIA, his communist and muslin buddies. We are armed and we ain’t giving them up. Period.
You wait all this time for election day and then Rove is on FOX News...
Reporting from south west PA (east of Pittsburgh)...Westmoreland County. Solid red. I vote at a tiny volunteer fire hall; I was voter #124 at about 9:20am. I waited in line for 3 or 4 minutes (we only have two voting stations—touchscreens). There was a line behind me when I left home. The nice older ladies (who work the polls) said they believed they are on the mark to break their 2012 Presidential election record. Our “hot button” election here would be Governor. Uber LEFTIE Tom Wolf WANTS and PROMISES to not only raise taxes for the “wealthy” (middle class!) but to GREEN PA by stopping the job generating fracking/shale drilling. HE IS AN OBOT!!! I think that’s why the big turnout here in Fracking Country.
My congressman is a republican, a good guy, Tim Murphy (no one opposing him) and my State Rep is a solid conservative, George Dunbar (also running unopposed).
It was the least-busy I have ever seen my polling place (City of Pittsburgh, PA- middle class 50% Jewish neighborhood). Weather is nice here, sunny about 60 degrees.