INDIANA’S STATE HOUSE goes Republican.
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November 2, 2010
FOX CALLS IT FOR CUOMO, SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND IN NEW YORK, Hoeven in North Dakota, Jerry Moran in Kansas, John Thune in South Dakota (unopposed).
PERRIELLO LOSES IN VIRGINIA. Blanche Lincoln loses, too. Fox calling it for Todd Young over Democratic incumbent Baron Hill in Indiana. A lot of people saw that as a real indicator. Alan Grayson loses in Florida. A lot of people saw him as a real jerk.
REMINDER: LIVE STREAMING COVERAGE ON PJTV. I’ll be on in a little while. Join me, Bill Whittle, Sonja Schmidt, Joe Hicks, Danika Quinn, and a host of others.
FOX CALLS FLORIDA FOR RUBIO. Connecticut called for Blumenthal. Delaware for Coons. New Hampshire for Ayotte. Missouri for Roy Blunt over Robin Carnahan, whose ObamaCare support killed her. Mikulski to hold on in Maryland despite last-minute revelations of a fling with Matt Labash. (Heck — that sealed the deal for her!) Shelby in Alabama.
ALASKA TV STATION FIRES PRODUCERS OVER ANTI-JOE MILLER DIRTY-TRICKS CONVERSATION.
LAMENESS: ABC News Caves Completely to Intolerant Left, Cancels Breitbart Election Night Appearance.
More: Andrew Breitbart: ABC’s move is ‘cowardice’.
And C.J. Burch emails: “Not cowardice, complicit. There’s a difference. Complicit is much, much worse.”
ABC: ABC News Projects Rand Paul Will Win Ky. Senate Race, in First Tea Party, Sarah Palin Victory. “Based on exit polls, ABC News also projects Republicans will also win in Indiana and South Carolina Senate races.”
Plus, via Drudge:
EXIT POLLS:
IL 49-43 Kirk [R]… KY 55-44 Paul [R]… NV TIED…
Arkansas: Boozman (R) over Lincoln (D)
California: Boxer [D] over Fiorina [R]
Florida: Rubio [R] over Crist [I], Meek [D]
Ohio: Portman (R) over Fisher (D)
North Dakota: Hoeven (R) over Potter (D)
Wisconsin: Johnson (R) over Feingold (D)
UPDATE: “Randslide.” “Jack Conway feels the full wrath of Aquabuddha.”
REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.
THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: DEMOCRATS FILE FIRST LEGAL CHALLENGES. Before the polls are even closed.
LIVEBLOGGING THE ELECTIONS AT CONTENTIONS.
Also at United Liberty. And Lawrence Person.
And lots of coverage from Jim Geraghty. And here’s a big roundup from Hot Air.
UPDATE: Rich Lowry: “Speaking of Pelosi, she’s really key to all of this and serves to rebut a couple of the liberal rationales for what’s happening. If this election were all about the economy and not the Democratic agenda, Pelosi wouldn’t be such a liability. No one blames her for the economy, but she embodies the Democratic program. And, as VDH alluded to earlier, if the anti-Democratic backlash were racist, Pelosi wouldn’t be such a target. Again, it’s what she did and how she did it.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Ann Althouse is liveblogging.
ED DRISCOLL: Photographic Metaphor Of The Day.
FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: YOUR HOUR-BY-HOUR GUIDE on what to look for on election night.
SO I’VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS from people voting in Republican areas reporting long lines, and people voting in Democratic areas reporting much shorter ones than 2008. If these are representative — and there’s know way of knowing it — we will indeed see the blowout that people have been talking about. We’ll know soon enough.
EXPLAINING THE SPIKES IN SATURN’S RINGS. I’m still rooting for the alien-bases theory, personally.
PJTV will be streaming live election coverage later tonight, starting about 6 pm Eastern. I’ll be on about 8:30 Eastern. Check it out!
And here’s how you can add your voice to PJTV’s election coverage.
LIVEBLOGGING FROM D.C. with the Tea Party Patriots. “They’ve earned this night.”
NASA HAS A space solar power program?
MARKDOWNS ON cordless drills.
MARY KATHARINE HAM: Self-Deception: The Sanity Rally just got…mind-blowing.
J.P. FREIRE: The Washington Examiner’s Completely Uninformative Alternative Guide to Election 2010. “My colleague David Freddoso wondered whether Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., was courting defeat by having failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis campaign for him. No, my friend: It means that Barney Frank is so sure of himself that he thinks even Michael Dukakis can’t screw this up. That’s called ‘showing off.’”
Last week, I asked a lawyer from a libertarian group for a copy of a brief it had filed in a First Amendment case. Sounding frustrated and incredulous, he said a federal appeals court had sealed the brief and forbidden its distribution.
“It’s a profound problem,” said the lawyer, Paul M. Sherman, with the Institute for Justice. “We want to bring attention to important First Amendment issues but cannot share the brief that most forcefully makes those arguments.”
The brief was filed in support of Siobhan Reynolds, an activist who thinks the government is too aggressive in prosecuting doctors who prescribe pain medications.
The Institute for Justice does not represent Ms. Reynolds, and it is not a party in the case. Its submission, made with a second libertarian group, Reason Foundation, was an amici curiae — or friends of the court — brief. It relied only on publicly available materials.
But it was sealed by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, citing grand jury secrecy rules. The court then denied the groups’ motion to unseal their own brief. That ruling itself is sealed, too, but I have seen parts of it.
Good grief. This is disgraceful. (Note: Siobhan Reynolds is no relation).