Still no final result in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. The latest tally has Kelly Ayotte up by fewer than 1,000 votes on Ovide Lamontagne, with 85 percent of precincts counted.
DC Mayor Adrian Fenty’s concession came in the wee hours of the morning. Vincent Gray’s victory speech here.
Hannity crushed as Rove tells him, Sorry, O’Donnell’s a nut. Watch the video.
It’s turning into a bizarrely long night for the New Hampshire election returns. The polls closed at 7 PM and there are still only 50% of the vote counted. And Ayotte just took the lead for the first time tonight — 39% to 38%. The trends been in her direction basically since the count was in the single digits. So the question is what votes remain to be counted. Manchester and Nashua are both in.
It turns out that Christine O’Donnell back during the Lewinsky scandal was on Bill Maher’s old Politically Incorrect show. A lot. A few old videos from her appearances from back in the day after the jump.
Weirdly enough, by comparison with her MTV appearance discussing her crusade against masturbation, they’re rather tame. Read More
Amazing. Carl Paladino doesn’t just beat but appears to have crushed Rick Lazio. 45% of the vote in and it’s 67% to 33%.
We told you there was that big House Dem caucus meeting tonight where Nancy Pelosi implored her members to get on board with a vote before the election on President Obama’s tax cut plan. Here’s our report.
But as Brian Beutler reports, Dems are starting a whole other fight amongst themselves over whether the House or Senate should have to go first.
10:37 PM: We’ve still got two potential upsets coming. Lamontagne still has a lead, albeit a dwindling one in New Hampshire, with 20%. And with 27% in in New York — my God — Paladino is still crushing the hapless Rick Lazio. Right now a 36 point margin. Look at live results here.
Christine O’Donnell is a big supporter of self-abstinence. And Rachel Maddow dug up this clip from MTV back in the 90s with O’Donnell explaining the organization she founded to fight the scourge of masturbation. Watch the video.