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.
Thinking that decision to punt on the tax cut debate was simply brilliant move by the Democrats.
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.
Darrell Issa (R), chief investigator under new leadership in House, tells reporters: “My responsibility is very broad, we own everything.”
I’m not willing to say it’s done. But MSNBC and Fox are now calling it for Harry Reid.
And AP too.
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.
Don’t know what the county by county is. But Ken Buck just rocketed ahead by like 30k votes in Colorado.
Classic encounter between Chris Matthews and Michele Bachmann tonight. Watch it.
Looking like 65 or so seats for the GOP in the House. Possibly a few more.
Okay, that rocket ahead by Ken Buck in Colorado? Apparently it was the result of a typo in Boulder County. Literally. Still waiting to get results after correction.
Late Update: Getting conflicting word about what the current vote count is in Colorado post-typo-fix. Whoever’s ahead it now seems like just a few thousand votes.