GOP Thom Tillis wins election to the U.S. Senate in North Carolina (Defeats Dem Incumbent Hagan)

[Hissyspit]

Last edited Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:47 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: Associated Press / Reuters

@AP: BREAKING: GOP Thom Tillis wins election to the U.S. Senate in North Carolina. @AP race call at 11:25 p.m. EST. #Election2014 #APracecall

Republican Thom Tillis wins U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina: CBS projects

Tue Nov 4, 2014 11:39pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Thom Tillis has unseated U.S. Senator Kay Hagan in North Carolina, CBS projected on Tuesday, claiming an important prize for Republicans as they gained control of the Senate.

In the most expensive race in the country, Tillis, 54, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, painted Hagan as a rubber stamp for unpopular President Barack Obama.

Hagan, a first-term Democratic incumbent, criticized the North Carolina Legislature’s rightward shift under Tillis.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0IP0E620141105

[Gloria]

1. Screw 'em all

eom

[Change has come]

2. fuck

[KatyB2U]

3. NC Voting machines flipping votes from Hagan to Tillis...

Tillis was NOT a popular man in NC. ...but he had alot of corporate $ behind him.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/02/voting-machines-flipping-votes-for-republican-candidate-in-north-carolina/

[KamaAina]

10. Machines flipping votes in populous Guilford County

Greensboro and environs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014934818

[Jamastiene]

4. Dammit!

Hagan was ahead and now this? How did that happen? I know the NCSBOE web site was posting inaccurate results tonight, WHEN it was up and not crashed, but how did she go from such a nice lead to....THIS?

DAMMIT!

[mnhtnbb]

8. It doesn't make any sense. She took a huge lead with rural (red) counties reporting

and then, somehow, when the big counties started reporting, she lost her lead.

Doesn't make any sense.

[Jamastiene]

9. I know. It just doesn't add up.

Also, they called it while Mecklenburg County wasn't even done counting. Charlotte is the largest city in the state, for crying out loud.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. So depressing. (n/t)

[CityDem]

6. Oh no

Never thought we would lose.

[bekkilyn]

7. Popcorn time

Even some non-Democrat voters (I am unaffiliated) voted for Hagen, but apparently it wasn't enough. This state is just nuts sometimes.

[4dsc]

11. Will there be an investigation in these vote switching machines?

Of course not. I find that a little odd.

[GGJohn]

12. Because it was probably the same thing that happened in IL,

calibration problems, but in IL, it was the other way around, it was repub votes being flipped to Dem votes.
Those machines were taken out of service.