Classic encounter between Chris Matthews and Michele Bachmann tonight. Watch it.
Don’t know what the county by county is. But Ken Buck just rocketed ahead by like 30k votes in Colorado.
The Dems have a small moral victory with the Reid win in Nevada, in the context of a pretty rough night. But, man, you’ve got to step back and just recognize what an amazing victory this was for Harry Reid. I mean, the economy is close to the worst in the nation. Reid was amazingly unpopular. There was a point about a year ago when I figured he’d probably pull a Dodd and just pack it in. And the polls at the end showed Angle opening a small but clear lead. And really, it’s not even close. There was enough shoe leather in this win for like a hundred shoes. I don’t know how else to put it.
I’m not willing to say it’s done. But MSNBC and Fox are now calling it for Harry Reid.
And AP too.
Darrell Issa (R), chief investigator under new leadership in House, tells reporters: “My responsibility is very broad, we own everything.”
Would be sort of rough for Dems to see Colorado now go the way of Illinois and Pennsylvania. But it’s now close to dead even.
Thinking that decision to punt on the tax cut debate was simply brilliant move by the Democrats.
Paladino’s concession speech was quite an eye-popper. In the face of like a 25 point defeat, he told Gov-Elect Andrew Cuomo he could either grab hold of Carl’s baseball bat and use it to lead the people or Carl would assault Cuomo with the bat. Yep, it was kind of weird.
Maybe in his remaining days as AG, Cuomo can find someway to get Paladino indicted on some sort of incitement charge.
MSNBC calls it for Kirk.
AP has called PA for Toomey.
No consensus of calls. But looks like both will go down as painful ‘almosts’ for the Dems.