Political angst
Nov. 2nd, 2010 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakOk, this is getting fucking annoying.
El Paso County, you suck at precinct reporting. You suck MIGHTILY.
The polls closed two hours ago. Neither KRDO.com, FiveThirtyEight, nor Fox have you listed as reporting ANYTHING. Zero percent reporting is UNACCEPTABLE. If House District 5 didn't extend so far west, we'd have no idea how Lamborn's re-election bid is doing. (He seems to be winning handily, mostly on the strength of Teller Co. I suspect. Teller's also going heavily for Buck and Tancredo.)
I'm glad that the anti-tax and personhood measures seem to be failing beautifully. But I'll feel safer about them when we get over 1,000 precincts reported. (There's over 3 thousand for statewide measures.)
KRDO and FiveThirtyEight are both calling the governor race for Hickenlooper. He has a lead of 439,000 over Tancredo, but again, I will feel better when we get over a thousand reported precincts, instead of a little over 700. Salazar is trailing Tipton, which makes me a little sad, but 25% of precincts reporting isn't a lock. (I have NO idea why we got such a deluge of ads from that campaign. They're the biggest geographically of our House districts, but the border's nowhere near here, and the biggest tv market in their area is Pueblo.) I doubt KRDO et al. reach that far.)
Rubio won heavily in FL. Davner is very pleased. Crist and Meek clearly split the Dem/liberal vote, but adding up the numbers, I don't think we'd have won even without the split. Dems plus Independents voting aren't quite enough to beat Rubio. (I'd like to see a breakdown over voters who voted, vs. registered voters, vs. people old enough to vote who aren't prevented by felony convictions and such. I suspect another "failure to properly rock the vote" problem.)
Wisconsin has me deeply disappointed. ::rubs temples:: Republican winning for Governor so far, over the Dem, who used to be the House rep. for my former district, and is currently the mayor of Milwaukee, my hometown. ::grumps:: Feingold's losing, too. ::grumps more:: Davner's thrilled. I'm not.
The infuriating cream on this sundae of "WTF, home-state ?!" is that my feckless uncle is winning Treasurer by a landslide. 54% of precincts have reported. He has 57.1% The Democrat incumbent has 42.9%.
If Wiki can be trusted in this instance, and if I am doing the math right, WI has nearly four million voters over 18. (25.5.% are under 18; total pop is listed as 5,363,675.)
The total voters for Treasurer? 999,421. This is CLEARLY a get out the vote issue, as well as an "educate voters about the nutjobs who could potentially serve you" issue.
::rubs temples. a LOT::
El Paso County, you suck at precinct reporting. You suck MIGHTILY.
The polls closed two hours ago. Neither KRDO.com, FiveThirtyEight, nor Fox have you listed as reporting ANYTHING. Zero percent reporting is UNACCEPTABLE. If House District 5 didn't extend so far west, we'd have no idea how Lamborn's re-election bid is doing. (He seems to be winning handily, mostly on the strength of Teller Co. I suspect. Teller's also going heavily for Buck and Tancredo.)
I'm glad that the anti-tax and personhood measures seem to be failing beautifully. But I'll feel safer about them when we get over 1,000 precincts reported. (There's over 3 thousand for statewide measures.)
KRDO and FiveThirtyEight are both calling the governor race for Hickenlooper. He has a lead of 439,000 over Tancredo, but again, I will feel better when we get over a thousand reported precincts, instead of a little over 700. Salazar is trailing Tipton, which makes me a little sad, but 25% of precincts reporting isn't a lock. (I have NO idea why we got such a deluge of ads from that campaign. They're the biggest geographically of our House districts, but the border's nowhere near here, and the biggest tv market in their area is Pueblo.) I doubt KRDO et al. reach that far.)
Rubio won heavily in FL. Davner is very pleased. Crist and Meek clearly split the Dem/liberal vote, but adding up the numbers, I don't think we'd have won even without the split. Dems plus Independents voting aren't quite enough to beat Rubio. (I'd like to see a breakdown over voters who voted, vs. registered voters, vs. people old enough to vote who aren't prevented by felony convictions and such. I suspect another "failure to properly rock the vote" problem.)
Wisconsin has me deeply disappointed. ::rubs temples:: Republican winning for Governor so far, over the Dem, who used to be the House rep. for my former district, and is currently the mayor of Milwaukee, my hometown. ::grumps:: Feingold's losing, too. ::grumps more:: Davner's thrilled. I'm not.
The infuriating cream on this sundae of "WTF, home-state ?!" is that my feckless uncle is winning Treasurer by a landslide. 54% of precincts have reported. He has 57.1% The Democrat incumbent has 42.9%.
If Wiki can be trusted in this instance, and if I am doing the math right, WI has nearly four million voters over 18. (25.5.% are under 18; total pop is listed as 5,363,675.)
The total voters for Treasurer? 999,421. This is CLEARLY a get out the vote issue, as well as an "educate voters about the nutjobs who could potentially serve you" issue.
::rubs temples. a LOT::
