Jon Stewart’s take from tonight: better to support prostitutes than Social Security.
President Obama speaking tonight with Speaker-Elect John Boehner (R).
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.
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 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.
Our write-up of Harry Reid’s almost unbelievable comeback win in Nevada.
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.
Jerry Brown was sort of my formative political experience or perhaps my first. He was in office when I was in elementary school in California. He just gave his acceptance speech. I didn’t see it but I heard it. It was classic Jerry Brown. Seemed like something I could have heard him say 30+ years ago. Not the kind of speech you’d ever expect to hear from almost any politician in the country. He was a bit punchy, extemporaneous. Ranging in various ways from one topic to another. Here’s the one quote I wrote down: I still have that “missionary zeal to transform the world.” Who else would say that? I don’t think I heard any of his speeches during the campaign. But I get the sense he let a bit of Gov. Moonbeam out post-victory. In his post-gubernatorial career he’s frequently driven me nuts. But I kind of love the guy.
I know Carly Fiorina is new to politics. But I’m not sure anyone explained for her how a concession speech is supposed to work. Every news organization has called it for Boxer. But Fiorina just came out and said the race was neck and neck.
That does not appear to be the case. The current returns have Boxer leading by about 5 points.
Boxer is also giving her speech now and seems to be sort of surprised that Fiorina hasn’t conceded.