Late Update: And it’s official: Scott Brown defeated for Senate in second state. But remember, open seat in Vermont in 2016.
Still early and not unexpected: but looking solid for Shaheen and Hagan in New Hampshire and North Carolina. The county by county numbers and the exits both point to victories. If GOP rolls the rest of the table they’d hit 53. The big questions, in my view, are Iowa and Georgia.
Listening now to Mitch McConnell’s victory speech.
In many ways, this was the McConnell plan from 2010. Just delayed for 4 years – through a series of self-inflicted wounds.
Late Update: Notable that with the GOP apparently heading toward a senate majority, McConnell announces that government can be allowed to function again.
Dylan Scott reports on how the 2 million vote threshold in Colorado is a key metric for the Senate race. More than 2 million voters and Dems think they have a chance to pull it out.
Josh Green has been reporting from Colorado and weighs in, saying that even if Udall hits the 2 million mark, which they’re now expecting to do, the voters are skewing older than the Udall campaign wanted, which puts those projections in some doubt.
@TPM_dk The honest ones are not so sure about that. Electorate so far is older than they modeled.
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 5, 2014
A few thoughts to make sense of the evening …
I think we’ve got relative confidence of the outcomes of the most of the races. For Dems, New Hampshire and North Carolina. For the GOP, Kentucky, Arkansas and (alas) Colorado. I’m not saying these are certain. Just we’ve got a pretty good idea what’s probably going to happen.
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I wanted to let you know that I’ll be doing an AMA on Reddit on Friday (11/7) at 1PM. Join me. Ask me anything. Just not anything to whacked. Or I guess that’s okay too.
After Obama’s NSA placed a cheeto particle in her Mac Book keyboard to make her delete key get stuck, how could Sharyl Attkisson doubt she is on the President’s ‘enemies’ list’?
Remember, Louisiana Republicans are evenly divided over whether President Bush or President Obama was more responsible for the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
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