Runoff in GA Senate Race

Not so fast, my friend. According to the AP:

In the Georgia Senate race, Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss has failed to reach the majority vote requirement needed under state law to avoid a runoff. The freshman senator will face Democrat Jim Martin in the Dec. 2 contest to fill the last seat in the new Senate.

The Georgia race joins the Minnesota race (recount pending) and Alaska race (too close to call) as US Senate seats still in flux.

Thank you to all who visited this blog Election Day!

Your friendly neighborhood blogger would like to humbly thank everyone who has visited The Wit Hits the Fan. We just had our biggest 24 hour period with over 200 unique visitors, spanning 39 states and 8 different countries. Not bad for a barely month old, unadvertised little soapbox. Look out Matt Drudge!

It's been fun. Let's keep it up. This blog will continue to be an optimistic, light hearted place for hard issues. It will continue to be a place for deep thought and shallow humor.

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Republicans appear to have held off the 60 seat Dem majority in the Senate

Hey, you've got to take your victories where you can. Let the filibusters begin.

Game over? Fox calls Ohio for Obama at 9:30

I'm extremely surprised the Buckeye State was able to be called so early. If the call holds up, it appears it's over. We move on and look forward.

I had the opportunity to talk to my Congressman, Mark Souder, right after the Republican National Convention. He likened the prospect of an Obama presidency with a Democratic majority in both houses to the 1992 election.

In 1992, Bill Clinton swept into office the same way Obama may have done tonight. Two years later we were looking at a sweeping Republican revolution at every level of government.

I tend to agree with his assessment.

Besides, it's more fun to be in the minority party.

Here's to 2010!

Daniels projected winner in Indiana Governor's race!

Fox has called the Governor's race for Mitch Daniels. No surprise. Let's hope he pulled McCain with him.

This will probably be my last post of the night. I'll be busy either flipping from channel to channel or throwing assorted objects around the house.

Keep the faith!

Conflicting numbers out there

Drudge has Obama up 15 in PA, but Ohio, VA, Fla as too close to call.

I posted what National Review Online was saying. One thing for sure, no one seems to know what's going on yet. (Except for Fox's Mort Kondrake, who all but announced we had the first African American president. Way to keep those west coast voters motivated!)

Also from National Review Online...to be taken with a grain of salt at this point

Some Cautiously Optimistic Takes From Sources on the Ground in Ohio

I continue to hear relentlessly positive takes from folks on the ground in Ohio.

George Bush carried Darke County, Ohio, 18,306 to 7,486 with 70 percent turnout. I'm hearing some predictions that turnout there could reach 80 percent this year.

Bush carried Warren County 68,037 votes to 26,044 with 76 percent turnout. I'm hearing that turnout is expected to be higher there, too.

The sense among some GOP folks on the ground is that the turnout in heavily African-American precincts in some of Ohio's cities has been light today, as of midafternoon, because of so many partaking of early voting. They see that as a reasonably good sign, that the Obama get-out-the-vote operation has hit its limit. These sources have been telling me for a few weeks now that they think McCain will overperform Bush's 2004 performance and that the Republican candidate's margin of victory will be greater than the two percent four years ago.