So what happened on the voter suppression front? Our reporter on that beat is Ryan Reilly and he’s starting a Live Chat right now at TPMPrime. Ask your questions now.
The new Senate will have a record 20 women senators.
With the election over, walking in to the office today, I was thinking about the greatest moments in derp, the high points in low, great moments of ridiculousness, shark jumping and just general ‘D’oh!’
What are yours? I’m going to start the conversation with the great moment when NBC released a pre-unskewed version of its own poll, which turned out to the be the high point of the Unskewed Poll movement. It seemed to have such a bright future. But I’m not sure it can survive the results of Tuesday night’s election.
What was your greatest election moment in ‘D’oh!’?
Thankfully for future GOP campaigns, the Romney team and Karl Rove seem to have successfully convinced the GOP’s billionaire mega-donors that it was all money well-spent and Romney was on course to a smashing victory until Chris Christie rode into final days on Unicorn Sandy.
From the Post …
“A lot of people feel like Christie hurt, that we definitely lost four or five points between the storm and Chris Christie giving Obama a chance to be bigger than life,” said one of Romney’s biggest fundraisers, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
CNET looks at each of the poll aggregators this season and how they ended up doing. 538, TPM, Pollster and RCP.
The big story is that each were actually quite consistent and quite accurate. But who did best? Nate got first. And after Nate? TPM. Check it out.
From The Post:
Late Wednesday afternoon, as sleet fell in Boston’s North End, Romney visited his campaign headquarters for one final staff meeting. He thanked his aides and said goodbye. His Secret Service detail gone — and with it his code name, Javelin, after a car once made by his father’s company — Romney was spotted driving off in the backseat of his son Tagg’s car. His wife, Ann, was riding shotgun.
Jon Stewart dissects the Fox News meltdown on election night. So good.
Republicans have won the popular vote for president once in the last six presidential elections.
I’m just posting this video because it’s bizarre. Glenn Beck on his new private web TV network just before the election talking about the Benghazi cover-up conspiracy. Good times. Read More