Poll Closing Times. By
Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Morning Jot is free and worth your time to read. ~Bob
The first key state to have polls close will be Kentucky . Some folks say
that if Mitch McConnell wins big, expect a big night for the GOP, but color me
skeptical that a deeply anti-Obama state is a perfect indicator of the national
mood. Whether or not you believe 2014 is going to be a “wave” election, waves
don’t always crest equally across the country.
At 7 p.m. Eastern, polls in part of Florida close, but the
panhandle is still voting. Think the networks remember, or has it been too long
since 2000?
NEW HAMPSHIRE permits its 13 cities
to keep their polls open until 8 PM Eastern Time by local option — however,
as there ARE only 13 cities among New Hampshire's 234 County subdivisions [the
221 "non-cities", of course, being the proverbial New England
Town(ship)], the fact is that the vast majority of NH's polls have closed
by 7 PM Eastern Time and the networks have no problem considering
this hour as the earliest hour of potential projection.
Expect a long count for New Hampshire .
The 7 p.m. crowd includes Georgia , but expect the counting
for that one to stretch on a while. Polls in Virginia close at this hour, and Mark Warner
will be expecting a quick call.
At 7:30, polls in North Carolina close. This one might be the
most key one of the night; if Kay Hagan loses, Democrats almost certainly lose
the Senate.
At 8 p.m., the great bulk of states on the East Coast close their polls. For Senate watchers, the biggest deals are
At 8 p.m., how many milliseconds will it take the
networks to call the Texas
governor’s race?
8:30 p.m.: Arkansas ,
which has completely dropped off most people’s lists of competitive or exciting
Senate races.
At 9 p.m.: Colorado .
Vote-counting may go quicker than you think because of the enormous early vote.
On paper, Louisiana
should be dramatic, but we’ll know it’s going to a runoff early.
At 9 p.m., polls in Wisconsin close. Say it with me: “Critical Waukesha County
At 10 p.m., polls close in Iowa . Expect the counting for this one to go
on well past bedtime. Most concur with Harry Reid’s assessment that the party
that wins this Senate seat will win control of the Senate.
Excerpt: For Obama, the presidency, to paraphrase
Chesterton’s line about the Christian ideal, was not tried and found wanting –
it was found difficult; and left untried. The problem begins with Obama’s
vision of himself, a vision completely unlike the presidents who did not view
themselves as world-altering historical figures from whom opponents cower and
melt away, and toward whose will history bends. The idea that Obama attempted
change and was trapped by existing unchangeable systems is nothing more than a
comforting delusion, whispered by courtiers to the god-king who cannot
understand why others did not bow down. He has become the worst kind of leader
in American politics – a leader who feels the people no longer deserve him, and
would prefer to dissolve them and elect another.
Let me blow your mind: As of the afternoon of Monday,
November 3, an astounding 1,463,766 voters returned ballots in Colorado . Out of that total, 590,653 are
registered Republicans; 469,900 are registered Democrats. That’s a 40.3 percent
to 32.1 percent split in favor of the GOP and a 120,753 vote margin. That’s
amazing. If you have a hand in Colorado GOP’s get-out-the-early-vote efforts, I
want to shake your hand.
Interesting: Democrats can’t escape Obama. By Marc A.
Thiessen
Excerpt: Why is Sen. Mary Landrieu (D.-La.) playing
the race and misogyny card in the final days before the midterm
elections? Why is Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid’s PAC running ads in North Carolina linking
Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis to the death of Trayvon Martin? Why
is Sen. Mark Udall (D.-Colo.) so obsessively focused on abortion and
contraception that he
has earned the moniker “Mark Uterus”? Because the elections have become a
referendum on President Obama — and thanks to Obama’s sagging popularity,
Democrats have given up on winning over independents and are desperately
seeking to mobilize their dispirited base. (Published Monday, but explains a
lot. ~Bob)
Report: Scott Walker
Wrote ‘Go Packers’ On Beam for Vikings Stadium
Wonder if this changed any last minute undecideds? ~Bob
Early Voting Exit
Poll Shows Neck and Neck Races in Georgia
Excerpt: The Hicks Evaluation Group and Apache Political
conducted an exit poll of early voters in Georgia from October 28th-30th.
Participants were surveyed about their selection in three statewide races: US
Senate, Governor and State Superintendent of Schools. The survey found both
Deal and Perdue in the lead and with slightly more than 50% of the vote and
Richard Wood with a slight lead over Democratic Nominee Valarie Wilson in the
race for Georgia ’s
top educator. Both Democratic candidates, Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are
within striking distance, however, it appears that support for the Libertarian
candidates is falling and coalescing around Republicans.
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