The official results from the Cal. Sec. State are here:

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/5000 .htm

VA. senate??? anyone?

Hotline reports that the NRCC chair is making predictions "based on an analysis of absentee returns in CA 50". Do they already have absentee returns, or is he making guesses based on numbers from previous elections? Is it legal for them to have information on returns for this election?

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/a rchives/2006/06/from_the_chairm.html

We used paper ballots, so I would assume that would add to counting time.  

The polling place I went to was mildly busy---I had about a 5 minute wait for a booth.  Although if I were a Republican, I could have walked right in---the Republican booths were empty.  Of course, its Los Angeles, and the most interesting race (Governor) was on the Democratic ballot.  

where are the montana results coming from?  the Missoulian.com site crashed for a bit about a 1/2 hour ago and hasn't updated since.

Are the GOP v. Dem vote totals anything to pay attention to? In the first 40 precincts, Dem turnout is significantly higher in the Senate primaries. Possibly this is because the Dem primary is more interesting (no incumbent)? But then there are other GOP races on the ballot.

The "Montana" link under state blogs here on MyDD goes to progressmontana.com, which has been no more than a MySQL error message all day.  I tried it this morning and again now, same error.  Does anyone know what's up with that blog?  Should the link be changed, or is progressmonatana alive and just needs some attention?

fuckin' a.  i bet matt singer is crapping gold bricks right about now.

BTW chris - what is "porojecting"?  is that some disease you get from blogging in your jammies?  LOL

Link for that race?

Tim

The CA Secretary of State's Website is Reporting with "11.4% ( 57 of 500 ) precincts reporting" Busby = 12,036 Votes, Bilbray = 11,071 Votes. Don't know what to think.  http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/usrep/5000 .htm

For those of you interested:

Phil Angelides 47.1%
Steve Westly 43.9%

That's also with only 11% of the votes in.

http://vote.ss.ca.gov/Returns/gov/00.htm

Also, i'd like to note that Democrats who voted in the San Diego area (where CA-50 is located) out drew the Republicans by more than 2 to 1. Busby is winning her primary with 90% of the vote; whereas Bilbray is winning with only 52% of the Republican vote.

We still have a good shot here. Remember the special election in the fall where all of Arnold's initatives were well ahead in the beginning. Then slowly, as the night progressed we began picking up steam and eventually won the night. Absentee voting always goes Republican in California - especially in a heavily Republican district like CA-50.

Boys and girls, it's about to get A LOT closer very soon.

Interesting to note:
Republican votes in primary so far: 20,965
Votes for Bilbray in special election: 20,448

Democratic votes in primary so far: 13,441
Votes for Busby in special election: 17,329

Looks like the independents are clearly breaking for Busby. We'll see if that is enough in such a Republican district.

I don't know what they're using in San Diego, but it would seem that they should have some votes coming in.

Unless there were long lines waiting to vote for Busby!

Happy thought (fantasy?)

But better than paranoia about backdoors to the voting machine software.

Morrison losing Yellowstone County is a big deal considering it is the largest county in the state.

There are more people in a Wal Mart on any given day than some counties (like Petroleum) but Yellowstone has about 1/6th of the state's population.

Tester was not my first choice in the primary, but he and his staff deserve alot of credit.   I know on this and many other blogs there is alot of fighting between wings of our party, but this is one DLC guy who is hopes everyone gets behind Tester for a good win in November.