Leftovers: A roundup of uncalled races

Politico ^ | 11-6-2014 | Kevin Robillard

[smoothsailing]

	Leftovers: A roundup of uncalled races By: Kevin Robillard November 6, 2014 02:28 PM EST
More than 36 hours after the last polls closed, two statewide races in Alaska, the Virginia Senate race and a slew of West Coast House races have yet to be called. Here’s how things stand: THE HOUSE AZ-2: Highly touted Republican recruit Martha McSally leads Democratic Rep. Ron Barber by just under 1,300 votes. The Arizona Republic reports that only a few thousand votes remain uncounted in Cochise County, while 47,000 votes still need to be counted in Democrat-friendly Pima County. CA-7: Former GOP Rep. Doug Ose has a 3,000-vote lead over freshman Democrat Ami Bera, but even Ose’s campaign admits there are more than 60,000 uncounted ballots in the district. The Republican’s team said it expects the result of the race to be known by Saturday. CA-9: Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney, who was expected to cruise to victory, is clinging to a roughly 2,500-vote lead over GOPer Tony Amador, a former police officer and U.S. marshall, in the Stockton-based district. CA-16: Republican Johnny Tacherra, a dairy farmer who had only one paid staffer on his campaign, appears on the verge of upsetting four-term Democratic Rep. Jim Costa. Tacherra leads by fewer than 800 votes. But Costa was also down on election night 2010 before mail and provisional ballots gave him a 3,000-vote victory. CA-17: Democratic Rep. Mike Honda has a 4,000-vote lead over intra-party challenger Ro Khanna. Khanna’s campaign says there are more than 40,000 votes still to be counted. According to the San Jose Mercury-News, Honda increased his lead Wednesday night when Santa Clara County — home to the majority of the district’s voters —updated its numbers. The other counties are set to update their figures Thursday night. CA-26: Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley leads the GOP’s Jeff Gorell by exactly 600 votes. In a statement, Gorell’s campaign said there are “more than 50,000 absentee and provisional votes left to be counted.” Ventura County is expected to update its vote count on Friday. CA-31: Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar, the Democrat in the race, has an approximately 1,750 vote lead over Republican Paul Chabot. Aguilar has declared victory, but Chabot said more than 60,000 votes remain uncounted from San Bernandino County. CA-52: Republican Carl DeMaio has a razor-thin lead of just 750 votes over freshman Democratic Rep. Scott Peters. Approximately 46,000 ballots still need to be counted. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the earliest new results could be released is 5 p.m. Thursday. MD-6: Republican Dan Bongino is trailing freshman Democratic Rep. John Delaney by 2,200 votes. Delaney, who poured $800,000 into his campaign account in the waning days of the race to stave off an upset, has declared victory. The Baltimore Sun reported officials will begin counting 6,900 absentee ballots on Thursday. NY-25: Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter had a less than a 600-vote lead over Republican Mark Assini in the Rochester-based district on election night, but the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported Slaughter’s lead began to grow slightly as absentee ballots were counted. Elections officials said between 1,200 and 1,300 absentee ballots can’t be counted until next week. Slaughter, who has been in the House since 1987, has declared victory. WA-4: Dan Newhouse, a former state agriculture director, leads former NFL tight end Clint Didier by just under 2,200 votes. Only 64 percent of precincts are reporting, according to The Associated Press. GOVERNORS Alaska: Independent Bill Walker has a 3,100-vote lead over incumbent Republican Sean Parnell. Alaska’s elections board says about there are about 20,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted and more could still arrive before a Nov. 19 deadline. Vermont: Neither Democratic incumbent Peter Shumlin nor Republican Scott Milne cracked the 50 percent mark needed to win the governorship outright, so the state legislature will make the final decision. Milne said Thursday morning that he may request a recount after Shumlin topped him by only 2,100 votes, according to the Burlington Free Press. Democrats dominate the Vermont Legislature. SENATE Alaska: Democratic Sen. Mark Begich is trailing Republican Dan Sullivan by 8,000 votes, but he’s hoping those same 20,000 uncounted absentee ballots could help him claw back. Virginia: Incumbent Democrat Mark Warner has a lead of nearly 17,000 votes, a much-closer-than-expected tally so far in his race against Republican Ed Gillespie. Counties in Virginia are canvassing the votes. State Democrats, including Attorney General Mark Herring and Rep. Gerry Connolly, have held on to their leads after recounts in similarly close races in recent years.
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[goldstategop]

Of the two national races - Sullivan will probably win in Alaska and Warner in Virginia.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Every dem with the exception of Begich will win.

[Red Badger]

There should be a law that for FEDERAL elections, ALL ballots are counted election night..............................

[VRW Conspirator]

There should be a law that for FEDERAL elections, ALL ballots are counted election night..............................

Until they are all counted with 12 witnesses...

...and at least one pissed off FReeper with a shotgun.

[madprof98]

Sure sounds like it. So how do they get away with putting aside 50,000 ballots to count some other day????

[Mr. Lucky]

If the federal government had been in charge, nationwide, of the 2014 mid-terms, don’t you think they might have turned out differently?

[boycott]

Heavily democratic areas are the ones that don’t seem to be able to have their ballots counted in a timely manner. It is rather obvious as to why.

Republicans need to have people standing over them every step of the way.

[colorado tanker]

Looks like the Dems have more than enough ballots stashed away to steal, er win, most of these.

[Red Badger]

[Chgogal]

Ask that fat creep on the Five, Bob Beckel. Look what he admitted to on election night.

Posted earlier:
Bob Beckel admits Democrats cheat in Fairfax County Virginia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3223841/posts

[Fledermaus]

With NO mail-in ballots and NO “provisional” ballots. These are nothing but tools for fraud. There is NO reason to have these forms of voting.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Sure sounds like it. So how do they get away with putting aside 50,000 ballots to count some other day????”

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[fireforeffect]

So they do not have to count them at all.

If the difference in the votes of the people who showed up to vote is greater than the number of absentee ballots, there is no need to count the absentee votes.

[vette6387]

“Looks like the Dems have more than enough ballots stashed away to steal, er win, most of these.”

Maybe so, but just look at the number of elections in CA that are close. So now all you CA haters can start your obligatory Amen Chorus! I can’t wait to read about all the Black Female queer welfare recipients with Mexican Sperm Donor boyfriends and half-breed kids, that you envision make up the entire population here.

[forgotten man]

I am not loosing any sleep over CA-52. The Repubican Carl DeMaio is a liberal sodomite who was hugging and kissing his butt boy in front of the cameras on election night. He is going down in more ways than one.

[smoothsailing]

I agree, then Cassidy winning the Cajun runoff and the pubs will net out with 54 seats.

I do hope Gillespie demands the recount in Virginia. It might uncover Democrat “secrets”.

[Doc91678]

I wonder how many abandoned cars will contain votes for democrats before the counting is finished in all those states?

[JohnBovenmyer]

There are also a couple House runoffs in Cajun country that should pad the pubbie total.

I hope Gillespie demands a recount as well. He has enough experience to know what's needed and enough GOPe markers to do it right. Meanwhile a Rat party unwilling to defend the LA runoff won't be eager to spend to defend Warner. At worse, he can force the Rats to go the full Franken where it will be harder to ignore. At best, I'd point out that the final judge on who gets seated is the new Senate! If he makes a good enough case they can override the (Rat) VA authorities. Reid would have a coronary and give us yet another seat.

The Rats stole a House seat in IN years ago just that way, never suffered for it, and I bet Gillespie is aware of that. He should also punctuate his case with Redskin metaphors: the MSM won't be able to resist covering his arguments then, and the base will eat it up.

[smoothsailing]

I like way you think!

Another race is the AZ CD2. Martha McSally is the Joni Ernst of Arizona, I hope she can pull it off. Right now she leads by about 350 votes, tight as a tick.

Arizona doesn’t allow candidates to request recounts in close races so it’s all on the final official count. There are still 3,300 uncounted ballots in McSally friendly Cochise County. OTOH, Dem friendly Pima County has about 24,000 absentee and provisional ballots uncounted but only a portion of the county is in CD2. It’s not known how many of those ballots are CD2 eligible.