What the heck. Use the comments here to discuss the ongoing election results, if you like. So far, we can say for sure that Rick Santorum has lost and lost bad, so the day can’t be altogether bad, right?<\/p>\n
This page by the DCCC<\/a> is an excellent place to monitor the house races – word is they’ll be updating frequently.<\/p>\n And here’s CNN’s page on the Senate races<\/a>. Right now (6:45 pacific time) it looks like the Republicans have surely won Missouri, probably Tennessee, and a good chance that George Allen will be re-elected in Virginia by small margin. So if the voting so far is representative of the whole, the Republicans will keep the Senate, albeit by a smaller margin.<\/p>\n UPDATE<\/strong>: 11pm Pacific Time, the Democrats have won in Virginia (which will probably require a recount) and are ahead in Montana and Missouri. So it may be the Dems will wind up controlling the Senate, as well. Damn.<\/p>\n Leave suggested links, thoughts, jokes, recipes, or whatever else you’d like in comments. It’s gonna be a long night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What the heck. Use the comments here to discuss the ongoing election results, if you like. So far, we can say for sure that Rick Santorum has lost and lost bad, so the day can’t be altogether bad, right? This … Continue reading
\nThe Feminist Majority has set up this page<\/a> to track the results from a “Year Of The Woman (The Sequel) perspective. And this page on the Ms. Mag website will track stage ballot measures of interest to feminists<\/a>. (Bad news: Late-term abortion ban in Virginia is projected to win. Good news: Minimum wage increase in Ohio).<\/p>\n