Accoording to MCJoan ester was up a little over 1000 votes there (yellowstone) before the recount.

Not looking too good. Madrid led early, but I guess Wilson's precincts came in later. I have no clue what Bowers meant about winning this one, unless he knows something CNN doesn't.

Okay, I'm nitpicking, but the next highest "guy" is a woman, Karen Carter, who received the local Democratic endorsement.  She beats Jefferson handily in the run-off.

I think there is a great deal of truth in this:  to thine own self be true, for then it follows as day follows night that you can be false to no man.   Yeah, I'm being a pain in the arras.

I think we sometimes get too hung up on this liberal/moderate friction.  If we're going to govern--or at least have an effective opposition to this White House, we have to talk to each other, listen to each other, and perhaps sometimes swap dropping some of our individual cherished goals in exchange for someone else dropping their cherished goal so that we can present a united front.

On a personal note, my daughter was at the DCCC victory party tonight when Rahm was speaking and called me as soon as she left...so deliriously happy.

Speaking of Rahm, I can find it within me to give love to Rahm and love to Dean.

Its ironic that we really learned the value of what they did from Bush...  I guess the Chimp gave us one thing of value over 6 years.

Yes - Closed to within 468 votes, with a few thousand provisionals to be counted today.

There are a good number of seats that might well flip in a recount. Wyoming (of all places), NC-08, among others.

I think McNerney and Patrick Murphy officially put us at 30, no? 32 might certainly be possible.

partially our fault...there was less noise about her campaign.  The men seemed to dominate most of the netroots chatter.

wasn't she one of the targets of the harassing robocalls? maybe not that's not the whole story in a fairly close race, but could be partially responsible.

I'm way in the dumps - it's my CD.

I think there are a few reasons (sorry for ragging on the campaign, but this is my honest assessment):

1. The Berks County piece of the field operation had problems - I don't remember for sure, but I think we did worse this go round than last in Berks.

2. Campaign ads generally sucked. They were typical DC-consultant fare and did not get the job done. They failed to innoculate against 100% certain attacks - "supported by the communists at MoveOn" and the like.

3. As mentioned in another response, the robo-calls took their toll in (large?) part because they were neither anticipated - which they should have been as similar if not quite the same thing was done in '04 - nor countered. Volunteer call scripts didn't deal with it.

4. While the field staff was very hardworking, did a good job of getting lots of volunteers and putting them to work, I think the campaign could/should have spent more for more paid staff and more experienced hands able to better deal with the situation (see 1 & 3 above). Given the relatively sorry state of the ads, some of the money would have been far better spent on staff and nontradtional media.

5. Rendell didn't do a fraction of what he might have to lend Lois some coattails, especially in ChesCo where I was amazed to see him wiping the floor with Swan. While I'm sure he helped send lots of contributions Lois' way and did the standard rally the troops campaign stops, you didn't see the side-by-side pictures all over the place like you did in '04.

That's my $.02, FWIW - that and $1.75 'll get you a latte or whatever it is coffee adicts drink these days.

thanks jk!

I did some last minute web promotion for him and donated last week via actblue.

I've noticed very low vote totals similar to this one in several very competitive districts. Are there 100,000 uncounted absentee ballots or something, or are these ~120k votes ALL of them?