One key moment from the night. Dems at DNC headquarters and their ‘party’ location, just packed it up and left before the spinning proper was supposed to start.
Our reporter Brian Beutler let us know late in the evening. And that’s it. There’s not going to be any spinning. They’re just calling it a night. Spoke louder than whatever words they might have tried.
Our write-up of Harry Reid’s almost unbelievable comeback win in Nevada.
I’m not sure how to describe this. But it’s Carl Paladino’s non-concession concession speech in which he first invites Gov-Elect Andrew Cuomo to grab his bat handle or be assaulted with it. Yeah, I don’t know what else to say. Watch it.
It makes sense to be pretty careful in judging how things will affect Sarah Palin. But there’s a decent argument that this is not a great night for her. Think about if Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell hadn’t won their primaries. There’s a decent chance Dems would have lost the Senate tonight. That’s a pretty big deal. She also made a late endorsement of John Raese in West Virginia. He got crushed. And perhaps most importantly, she went to war in a big way with her state’s senior senator, Lisa Murkowski. She got her beat in the Republican primary. But now it’s looking like Murkowski’s quite likely to win as a write-in, which is usually pretty much impossible to pull off.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Sarah Palin will be going anywhere soon. The problem for the GOP is that the people who love her — and there are a lot of them in the GOP — really love her. And this won’t matter a bit to them. But this result is going to get a lot of talk in GOP circles. Because there’s a plausible argument that she lost them the Senate.
I’m still trying to nail this down. But it looks like the number of votes remaining outstanding in Colorado favor Bennet. That’s with Buck 4k ahead as of this moment.
Take this all as very tentative. It seems like there’s a decent amount of confusion on the ground. But this sounds like it’s still anyone’s game.
President Obama speaking tonight with Speaker-Elect John Boehner (R).
Jon Stewart’s take from tonight: better to support prostitutes than Social Security.
Okay, that rocket ahead by Ken Buck in Colorado? Apparently it was the result of a typo in Boulder County. Literally. Still waiting to get results after correction.
Late Update: Getting conflicting word about what the current vote count is in Colorado post-typo-fix. Whoever’s ahead it now seems like just a few thousand votes.
Looking like 65 or so seats for the GOP in the House. Possibly a few more.