NYT/AP: Eight House Races Still Without Winners

[DeepModem Mom]

Eight House Races Still Without Winners
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 10, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight House races remain without winners after Tuesday's election, with Republican incumbents in tight contests to keep their seats and state officials not rushing to end the dispute.

Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, is ahead in her central Ohio race by 3,536 votes. In the Columbus, Ohio-area, elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18.

Elections officials in that district will start counting Nov. 19.

Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin, who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.

Of the eight uncalled races, only one -- Joe Courtney's challenge to Republican Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut -- gives a Democratic challenger the lead. In that race, Courtney is ahead by a scant 167 votes. Almost a quarter of a million votes were cast....

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Other races that remain undecided include North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes' campaign against Larry Kissell, separated by 449 votes; and New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson's race, where Democrat Patricia Madrid trails by about 1,600 votes.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-House-Races-Unresolved.html

[AlinPA]

1. How many do we have now? 230?

[ps1074]

10. 229

eom

[Demit]

2. How could counting ballots disrupt a football game? Do they use the field?

[Tarc]

3. Most everyone would be watching the game

rather than ballot-counting.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Well, it's not just "a football game"...

it's Ohio State/Michigan. No.1 vs. No. 2. Both undefeated. In the 2000 election, they stopped counting votes for Thanksgiving, and in Ohio, this is more important than Thanksgiving.

[Coventina]

7. Delaying our electoral process for FOOTBALL?!?!?!?!

:wtf:

This country's priorities are so fucked up.

[Pathwalker]

16. Well - it IS the Michigan v. Ohio State game.

It will help determine the College Football National Championship.

GO BLUE! ;-)

I hope there won't be riots afterwards, either way.

[Tight_rope]

20. "This country's priorities are so fucked up"! BIG TIME!

:spank:

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. That's what I was thinking too

Some pretty messed up priorities there. :crazy:

[LeftyMom]

25. Not the whole country, just Ohio and Michigan

But this is a huge deal back there. To be fair, there's really nothing else to do in either state.

Still, it's funny when I see transplants driving around here with 30 pro-OSU and anti-Michigan stickers on their cars (I spotted one this morning) because nobody out here gives a shit. It'd be like moving to Europe and having Nascar stickers all over your car- hardly anybody knows what they mean and nobody cares who you're backing.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Odd that they don't mention FL-13...

where Democrat Jennings trails Republican Buchanan by about 300 votes, with as many as 13,000 votes screwed up by Diebold.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Does that mean Mitchell won and Hayworth is out?

I'm confused. Or is it just that Hayworth is challenging it? :shrug:

[Coventina]

9. The race was "called" on election night. Hayworth is refusing to concede.

But all sane people outside the Republican party seem to think that Mitchell will win.

But, the AZ SOS is also saying it is too early to call.
But then, she's a Republican as well.

:puke:

On edit: What I'm trying to say, is that the election was clearly won by Mitchell, but the Republican party is trying to steal it for Hayworth.

Sorry, I'm just so filled with rage over this that my communication skills are suffering.

[Zorra]

14. Mitchell still ahead by about 6,000 votes - they're still counting. n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

8. much-vaulted?

Proofread much, NYT?

[Coventina]

11. It creates a funny mental image, though.

:D

[CottonBear]

12. My friend and Congressman, John Barrow (GA-12) is in a narrow lead in Savannah, GA

In Georgia, first-term Democratic Rep. John Barrow, facing a rematch against former Republican Rep. Max Burns, leads by fewer than 600 votes.


Info on this race and the two candidates: http://elections2006.mgblogs.com/index.php/elections2006/georgia_12/


Congressman John Barrow (GA-12) He had to move from his hometown of Athens, GA to Savannah, GA because the GA GOP redistricted him out of his district He will be my Congressman only until January 2007. Savannah is in both the old and the new districts but Athens is not in the new district. :( John is a former Athens-Clarke County Commissioner and the scion of a very old and politically involved Georgia family. His father was the legenday Judge Barrow of Clarke County, GA.
John's official website: http://www.barrowforcongress.com/

[rodeodance]

13. dang. looks like yuky deb pryce will win.

[Reciprocity]

15. Kick

[BlueStorm]

17. Does this mean the Repubs could still

take a majority?

Blue

[Coventina]

18. No, even if they got all 10 seats, our majority is locked in.

Thank God/dess.

[Thickasabrick]

19. How in the hell did "Mean Jean" do that? Of all the losses - I

thought she would definitely lose. The Rolling Stone article about her is hysterical but still leaves me shaking my head as to how she pulled that off - even after the nuclear waste shit.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. Katherine Harris' 41% seems artificially high, too...

They have ways, these nazis...

[theHandpuppet]

24. That's because she favors dumping the waste in Pike County

To the Cincinnati-area neocons, the Appalachian counties in their district might as well be in Afghanistan, so they don't give a shit. Check out my journal for an explanation of how the GOP manages to maintain its stranglehold on this district.

[Spangle]

23. I hope lots of Repugs loose by slim numbers

And wish they could recount the votes.

Ya know.. Just so they realize there isn't anything to recount! Nothing to verify. Be pissed at the voting boths where machines didn't work right. Where there are tons of undervotes in their race, and no way to figure out why.

And be stupid enough not to realize, that is exactly the kind of voting system their party wanted. That our taxes paid for.