Not a huge surprise but Chris Murphy defeats Linda McMahon in Connecticut. The final PollTracker Average was Murphy +9. But it had been considerably closer.
Late Update: Looking pretty encouraging for Donnelly in Indiana.
All of Linda McMahon’s efforts to confuse black voters about her pro-Romney record were to no avail.
Chris Murphy wins the Connecticut Senate seat held by Joe Lieberman.
Just broad overview. We’re starting to get a view of a lot of key counties in Florida and to a lesser extent in Virginia. In a situation like this you look at those key counties and see whether each guy is under- or over-performing their party’s totals in 2008. Obama seems to be keeping his pace in a lot of them. And some critical counties where Romney would need to be really racking up votes he doesn’t seem to be. Again, this is early. He could definitely win. The whole thing could turn. But what we might call the ‘internals’ of these states totally don’t look terribly promising for Romney. And these are the states he must win — really VA, NC and FLA — to even be in the running once we get to the midwestern states.
All the nets calling Michigan for Obama. Not many details yet. But they called it as soon as the polls closed. So it must not even have been close.
NBC (but only them so far) declares for Warren in Massachustts.
Just click the ‘senate’ tab in the scoreboard above to see the Senate numbers.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that if Elizabeth Warren, if she wins, will be the first former TPM Blogger elected to the Senate.
Warren’s Warren Reports (with her students at Harvard Law) was one of the launch blogs at TPMCafe.
We’re trying to figure out just whose error it was. But AP has NOT called Wisconsin for Baldwin. We’ll give you more information once we have it.
AP calls Wisconsin Senate for Tammy Baldwin. She’ll be the first gay woman (or person for that matter) elected to the Senate.