Political Geeks Only

These were the races we were watching most closely after 9:34 PM when Ohio was called and the election was over. Nothing like some fun downticket watching!

Senate
NC - Thank God! (oops) Can't believe this ended up at 9 points, hot diggity damn!
GA - Should be a fun run-off to watch, at least. Not going to go blue, but better to have some more election fun.
MN - I honestly just don't give a ****. Franken wasn't going to be an asset anyway. Looks like it's going to be a recound, but with the optical scan ballots it's not going to be a Florida-esque shift in votes.
OR - Now that they are finally counting some more western votes Merkley is going ahead. Good. I was going to be pissed. [I wrote this earlier in the day, I think some sites called it for Merkley now.]
AK - Okay, I knew Alaska was stupid, but really? Really? Are you kidding me? Wonder if Palin will be able to **** up the inevitable special election once Stevens gets expelled. [Looks like there are more uncounted votes than we thought. Could still get Stevens defeated. Still though, Alaska, making it this close?!]
NH - Okay, not much doubt about this, but her name is fun to say at least.

House (in alphabetical order for your pleasure)
CA-04 - If McClintock holds on, which he probably will, I think it's going to be a bit of a wake-up call to the very complacent democratic grassroots in CA. Get off your asses please.
CT-04 - Shays going down adds that nice final touch of blue to New England. ahhhh that feels good
FL-16 - Only interesting to see the margin. Kind of surprised Mahoney only lost by 20. Time to see what Rooney can have sex with.
LA-06 - Too bad, since Cazayoux was a rising star, but I guess that's what you get for winning in a Republican district in a once-in-a-decade backlash year.
MN-06 - This is the one that I got most excited about when returns first started coming in. Only to have my dreams crushed. Bachmann would have been a nice trophy for the night.
PA-12 - In the brother race to MN-06, Murtha held on as well so I guess it's a wash.
VA-05 - Perriello finally pulled back ahead after being down most of the night. Goode winning would suck. Ads that negative deserve to be repudiated.
WA-08 - This race didn't get much coverage, and Burner is already over performing, so I really doubt he will pull it off once they finish counting.

Governor
MT - I was happy to see Schweitzer's margin climb past 20. Going to be fun to watch him on TV some more.

Propositions
CA-1A - Maybe the rail system won't suck by the time I want to retire to CA. lol
CA-04 - Sweet. Wonder how many more times we have to vote down parental notification.
CA-08 - Ugh. Another wake-up to the CA grassroots who thought this was won a couple months ago.
CA-11 - Another bad sign for the dems. If this passes like it looks like it will it's going to toss a couple wrenches in the dem plan.
WA-1000 - Very surprised the margin was so big on this, but that's a good thing!