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Dawn doesn't break the morning after an election in Arkansas, but just kind of eases up over the horizon, as if afraid to shine a light on the results. It doesn't come like some hoot owl that can be heard a way off. And by the whole neighborhood. That's not its style this morning. Today dawn comes like a scooch owl, slowly, creeping almost imperceptibly closer and closer and closer to its prey ... until you look down and there's no more prey, only remains. Much like the results of an election carefully recorded in small type on the...

Both Democratic and Republican strategists are dissecting Tuesday's election results for clues to what might happen in next year's congressional elections. State races in off years are not always good predictors of how a party will do nationally during congressional or presidential elections, but there are some important lessons to be learned. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's reelection win was predictable. He is a popular reformer who reached out to minorities and women running in a state that has had its fill of Democratic corruption and tax hikes. He's a conservative -- a pro-life Catholic who personally opposes gay marriage...

The best thing about math is that it’s a constant. The numbers are what they are. That’s why I’m a data guy, because as a person that believes in absolute truth I have a tendency to like things cut and dried. Leading up to the 2012 election several lies and clever myths were postulated by the ruling class know-it-alls and the charlatans who act on their behalf, and you can bet they will continue peddling their wares this year in light of the results. But the beauty of real numbers is they cut through all the horse puckey right to...

It should have gone the other way but didn't. There are reasons for that. We could have exercised more control than we did over some but the most important of them were no longer in our hands. It was a terrible night and I either drank too much or too little. Whichever it was, it didn't help. Deluded fool that I am, my hope that the results would be different became a belief that they would. What could have helped would have been to have had less faith that the people of the United States had already learned about and...

To me seemingly lost among this hand wringing today is that Romney lost to Obama by less than 300,000 votes of out almost 117,000,000 votes casts. The electoral college can fool one into thinking a close election is a blowout. This was a close election. As of when I started to write this, had Mitt Romney won 46,040 more votes in Florida and 33,770 more votes in New Hampshire, 100,764 more votes in Ohio and 106,726 more votes in Virginia or 287,301 out of more than 17,500,000 cast in those 4 states. http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results People here and on the radio need...

W 2004 vs. 2000: vote +12 m; percent change of vote margin +3% Toon 1996 vs. 1992: vote +2.5 m; percent change of vote margin + 3 % Reagan 1984 vs. 1980: huge gains Nixon 1972 vs. 1968: enormous gains Ike 1956 vs. 1952 : Vote +1.5 m; percent + 4% Usurper the First : 1940, 1944: declining margins FDR : 1936 vs. 1932 : +5 m; percent +6 % Wilson: gained 3 m votes; percentage not calculable due to Bull Moose finishing 2nd in '12

In a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world's dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA's dominant election results reporting company. When you view your local or state election results on the Internet, on portals which often appear to be owned by the county elections division, in over 525 US jurisdictions you are actually redirected to a private corporate site controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name ClarityElections.com. The good news is that this firm promptly reports precinct-level detail in downloadable spreadsheet format. As reported by BlackBoxVoting.org in 2008, the bad news is that...

Democrats run Obama's home state of Illinois. That state's response to the profoundly serious economic problems facing so many states has been a massive increase in taxes. Republicans in neighboring states have an opportunity to showcase at the state level how their party would handle our nation's economic crisis. The landslide last November gave Republicans complete control of five state governments in the Great Lakes Region: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Republicans in those states not only control the governorships and both houses of the state legislatures, but the state legislative majorities are big, and Republicans won many secondary...

At 1:03 pm. and still less than 10% of the votes reported. Anyone else still waiting for the outcome of local races due to slow ballot count reporting?

The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid circulated an analysis arguing that “gubernatorial races are primarily about local issues,” and that it’s therefore “hard to draw any direct comparisons between what happened in New Jersey and Virginia and what will happen in Congress.”

Declaring Indiana for obama might be premature per the Indiana Sec of States website. Indiana might actualy count the vote because there were tens of thousands of provisional ballots due to voter rolls issues. I had the voter card in my hand and wasnt listed. http://www.in.gov/apps/sos/election/general/general2008?page=office&countyID=-1&officeID=36&districtID=-1&candidate=

Pierre, SD (LifeNews.com) -- For a second time, the voters of South Dakota defeated a state ballot measure that would have banned most abortions after defeating a similar measure two years ago. The 2006 ban would have only allowed abortions to save the life of the mother and the 2008 ban added rape and incest exceptions with the hope of persuading more pro-life voters to support it. Instead, South Dakota voters defeated Initiated Measure 11 by a 55-45 percentage point margin. The margin was similar to the vote last time around despite the attempt to appeal to the majority of...

Please provide the Soldiers on the front lines with some correct news on the election results. We are getting nothing here but gossip and inuedo bull$hit! Thanks my fellow Americans!

Very, very, very emotional video right here.

2008 Presidential Election Results: * Barack Obama: 17 * John McCain: 10 * Ron Paul: 2 (write-in)

What will be your first tipoff as to the final outcome of the election? Will it be the weather forcast a few days before the election? Will it be the reports of where voter turnout is the heaviest? How about the speed with which some of the first states will be called? What's your tell?

HARARE (AFP) - The first results from Zimbabwe's elections were due to be announced on Monday after the opposition accused authorities of sitting on the outcome in a bid to keep President Robert Mugabe in power. As complaints mounted over the delay in releasing any figures from Saturday's joint presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections, the chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said the first announcement should be made early Monday. "The first results will start to be published at 6:00 am (0400 GMT)," George Chiweshe said at a news conference shortly before midnight. "The commission is aware that these...

At the Onion today they have a really funny "fake" news cast, they release the Nov. 2008 election results early. Even the "man on the street" interviews are great. I guess we can not post a direct link but if I could it would be simular to the following. theonion.com /content /video /diebold_accidentally_leaks

Obama trounces Hillary, McCain and Huck are neck and neck

DALLAS (Reuters) - An openly gay candidate lost his bid on Saturday to become mayor of Dallas in a race that attracted wide attention because of his sexual orientation. Councilman Ed Oakley lost to businessman Tom Leppert, who took 58 percent of the vote to Oakley's 42 percent, according to official returns. Oakley had the endorsement of the Democratic Party, while Leppert ran a nonpartisan campaign. A victory by Oakley would have made him the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a Washington-based gay rights group. Neither candidate...