Election Results

LOL - (4.00 / 1)

just posted right above you by around a minute behind.

I'll paste my diary here and delete it....

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Congressional results here and 6 races already called:

LoBiondo, Smith, Garrett, Rothman, Payne and Sires already declared winners at NJ.com.

The big races to watch still have a lot of votes to still count.  Pallone, Holt and Adler still have big battles on their hands, and fingers crossed in the 7th.

Looks like the predicted changing of the guard in the House will happen but not likely in the Senate.

What's on your mind?

Scott Garrett - on the wrong side of, well, everything.

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by: Adam L @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:23:07 AM UTC

Pallone now ahead by 500 (0.00 / 0)

As Middlesex starts to report.


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:30:06 AM UTC

In my little town (4.00 / 2)

Flemington - lost all 3, our mayor and council races. Potosnak lost but that's not a surprise. Leonard Lance is from NJ-7 and for many years had his legislative district office here. Still ... the Jameson Irish Whiskey, the Bushmills Original and the Glenlivet are on the table, and we're taking our bad news like ... men?

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:35:30 AM UTC

Amendment 1 getting over 80% (0.00 / 0)

so far, though I don't think it's surprising it would win.


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:35:34 AM UTC

agree with that (0.00 / 0)

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:43:00 AM UTC

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Dems getting slaughtered in Virginia (0.00 / 0)

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37 AM UTC

Gillibrand wins (0.00 / 0)

Not a surprise by now, but since I expressed many doubts about her early on, score one for Menendez and the Establishment.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:51:55 AM UTC

NJ-6 (0.00 / 0)

RealClearPolitics is reporting with 46% of the vote in NJ-6: Pallone 49%, Little 49%.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 01:52:51 AM UTC

moving back in NJ6, NJ12 (0.00 / 0)

Pallone with a narrow lead.  

Holt now down by 4000.  

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:04:07 AM UTC

Adler concedes (4.00 / 1)

Runyan is thinking about reading Clift Notes on politics

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." - Sen. Ted Kennedy

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by: Bill Orr @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:07:21 AM UTC

good riddance to bad rubbish (0.00 / 0)

He can start to redeem himself tomorrow by denouncing the Norcross machine and announcing that he is going to run against James Beach for his old State Senate seat.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:17:08 AM UTC

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Honestly (0.00 / 0)

have you absolutely no understanding how Congress works? Do you understand the difference between being a majority party and a minority party?

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by: Thurman Hart @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:44:03 AM UTC

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this is what I understand (4.00 / 1)

I understand that Democrats had two years in the 90s with a Democratic President, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate and squandered that opportunity.

I understand that Democrats had the same opportunity over the last two years and instead of making the most of it with a strong stimulus that actually stimulated the economy, HCR legislation that will actually make it possible for everyone to have affordable access to healthcare, and meaningfully changing the way that our financial services industry does business, it did none of these things, because, once again, Democrats in Washington were more concerned about politics than policymaking.

I also understand that it is entirely possible that tonight's losses would have been even worse if they had actually passed legislation that was actually worth the thousands of pages of paper that they were written on.  However, imagine how this campaign season might have been different if the Democrats in Washington had passed a two trillion dollar surplus that wasn't full of a lot of nonsense, HCR reform that would have provided the uninsured with affordable access now instead of in 2014, and between the bailout package and financial services reform, a financial services industry that was regulated to such a degree that it actually served the economic needs of the people of this country rather than the bottom line of the industry itself.

Democrats might have actually had something to run on other than the fact that they were more sane and less stupid than the teabagging wingnuts, which was clearly not a compelling enough argument, especially considering how many voters are as insane and as stupid, if not moreso, than the candidates for whom they voted.

In the face of the Great Depression, FDR was able to get historic legislation passed during his first two years in office.  Not only did Obama et al not give us a New Deal for the 21st Century, the watered down garbage that they did pass was so indefensible that Democrats were completely incapable of campaigning in any meaningfully coherent way this year and with so much redistricting in the hands of so many Republican Governor's officers, I don't know if or when the Democrats will ever be able to recover.

So excuse me if I do not display your degree of understanding of how dysfunctional our political system has become and how ineffective our government is and how irrelevant the Democrats in Washington and elsewhere have become.  Like you, I have two small children, and I have little to no hope for their future.  We're all doomed.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 04:29:22 AM UTC

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And I have to ask (0.00 / 0)

despite the fact that Democratic majorities failed overwhelmingly, where is there any evidence that Republican majorities were any better? In fact, I'd say that Republican majorities were much worse for all the issues you and I care about.

The majority party controls everything that comes up for consideration and how and when it comes up for a vote. I'd rather have a Blue Dog Dem voting for the vote to proceed than a Republican voting to stop it. Even if they both vote no on the bill itself.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 22:48:22 PM UTC

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I think that you misunderstood... (0.00 / 0)

...the point of my original statement.

When I said good riddance to bad rubbish, I was speaking specifically about John Adler in particular, not about all Blue Dogs in general.  In general, I would agree that even a conservative Democrat is better than most Republicans, particularly considering the current state of party discipline on the Republican side.

However, John Adler is not a conservative Democrat.  He is a cowardly Democrat who was as progressive as he wanted to be when he represented a safe Democratic district and then abandoned whatever progressive principles he might have had when he became a Congressman in a conservative district.

Considering the fact that his replacement, James Beach, voted against marriage equality, I feel that he betrayed progressives when he chose to run for Congress if he wasn't willing to continue being a progressive after winning the seat.  I am not sure that John Adler is not the first person to disappoint in this manner, but he is the first one that I have experienced personally to have such a damaging ripple effect.

But the fact that we have to depend on conservative Democrats to have a dysfunctional majority in the House and Senate tells me that the ideological makeup of our body politic is becoming unsustainable.  I think that a more functional political system could arise if the country broke up into several smaller countries and maintained an economic and military relationship like the E.U.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 01:44:32 AM UTC

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Call him what you want (0.00 / 0)

but Adler helped create a Democratic majority. Think about that everytime you see Speaker Boehner.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 14:56:03 PM UTC

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Pallone & Holt now lead n/t (0.00 / 0)

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." - Sen. Ted Kennedy

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by: Bill Orr @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:12:43 AM UTC

I'm going to bed, but if I wake up to (0.00 / 0)

Congressman Siprelle, I'm going to be nauseous all day.

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by: NNadir @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:21:25 AM UTC

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Daily Kos (4.00 / 1)

Someone posted that NJ-12 was called for Holt.

http://christiegonewild.blogsp...

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by: ken bank @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:28:02 AM UTC

It was. I may be an atheist, but (4.00 / 1)

I sure want to say "Thank God," somehow.

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by: NNadir @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:34:05 AM UTC

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Thank physics. (0.00 / 0)

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 03:19:36 AM UTC

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Dems hold on in Salem County (0.00 / 0)

Lee Ware (D) and Julie Acton (R) both win re-election to keep control of the freeholder board narrowly in the hands of Dems.  Nikki Burke (D) also wins for county surrogate.

Dems, however, lose every contested township/borough race except for a pickup in Woodstown.   Hiles (D) win that one by 7 votes. Glad I made calls instead of blogging. :)

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 02:35:42 AM UTC

Republicans sweep Bergen Co. (4.00 / 1)

NorthJesey.com reported, Bergen County Clerk Kathleen Donovan has defeated County Executive Dennis McNerney in the race for the county's top position, leading an apparent GOP sweep of the county executive, sheriff and freeholder races."

Some of this was self-inflicted. However, with the State's largest county moving into Republican hands, Christie gains substantial influence here. For all five incumbents to lose should be a warning for Democrats.  

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." - Sen. Ted Kennedy

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by: Bill Orr @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 03:13:47 AM UTC

Donovan (4.00 / 1)

Considering how much the unreconstructed Loneganistas and TNuts hated her guts and were cheering for her defeat, I can't really say I'm very disappointed.

In fact, with Little going down not one TNut has been elected to office.

http://christiegonewild.blogsp...

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by: ken bank @ Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 03:40:47 AM UTC

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i am happy with the results (0.00 / 0)

Of course working a race in Kentucky which we lost (an uphill battle), I was looking home to NJ for a bright spot.

I am very glad that I will not come home to Anna Little representing me.  I do want to know what happened to Monmouth county though.  Seems like a lot of work to be done there.

http://outspokenliberal.blogsp...

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by: tabbycat31 @ Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 03:32:35 AM UTC