We have MSNBC on in the background; it’s Matthews + Olbermann, already a pretty solid pair, backed up by Williams, Russert, and Brokaw. Predictably, we’re making snarky comments in-between interesting developments. (Will be updated.)
<d> Goode, Weed in Virginia? Seriously?
<e> It’s no surprise that Count Chocula is losing. But that he’s a Republican?
<d> Sure, why not?
<e> Yeah, I guess. Old European money. Ancien régime.
<d> Whereas top military brass like Cap’n Crunch are abandoning the GOP, hoping for some Congressional oversight into foreign policy.
<d> Not snarky: CNN has the best Web-based interface for tracking the returns as they come in. Here’s the county-by-county TX-22 breakdown, as well as TX-07 and TX-18 (our district).
<d> Texas governor’s race called for Perry. Lampson starting to pull away from Sekula-Gibbs, especially in Brazoria (by an order of magnitude in that county with 5% reporting).
<d> Hey, Kinky: Thanks for being Chris Bell’s Ross Perot. (Although according to CNN’s exit poll, voters would still narrowly have chosen Perry if there had been no independents in the race.)
<d> This one’s for e: How would your favorite superhero vote? “Batman follows his own moral compass, and Batman is always right.”
<d> This is getting less snarky all the time, isn’t it? Fatigue, I suppose, has set in. Avi Rubin (CS prof at JHU and director of ACCURATE) has written about his experiences at the polls today in Maryland.
<d> Unofficial results for Harris County (including ballot measures, all of which seem to have passed) are here (in PDF and HTML).
<d> So that’s basically it, then: It’s down to Virginia for the Senate race. Expect lawyers, computer scientists, and everyone else to descend on the great Commonwealth this week.
