House of Eratosthenes

Yes, it’s absurd, but we have to vote on the fundamental laws of physics that bind the universe. Whether Churchill’s fat-man can sit in a large bucket and lift himself by the handle. History has already shown us over the last two years how it really works, we’re just voting on whether or not we agree.

Life can be very, very unkind to people who disagree with the way the universe works. Nature has a way of teaching you the same lesson over and over again until you get it learned.

Update 1741: Should I turn this into a “live-blogging” session? I’ve seen other election-night live-blogging efforts before and I’m not sure I’m up to putting one of those through. Anyway, I’m thrilled to pieces with Alan Grayson going down in flames. What an asshole. Also, Rick Perry is going to remain the Governor of Texas. Wonderful, Texas will not be like us…not yet anyway. That makes me happy. Some of us Californians are like that. If we’re sailing over the brink, we don’t want to see everybody else following.

Update 1746: Todd Young takes Indiana, 54% to 40%. “This is a race to watch to see how big of a Republican night it will be.” Republicans need another 163 seats to take the House at this point. They’ve won 55, the enemies of the Constitution have won 25.

Update 1757: Onorato/Corbett in Pennsylvania too close to call; ditto Quinn/Brady in Illinois. My third St. Pauli Girl, and my real-life girl has brought me some yummy dinner. Kasich in Ohio is going down in flames. I’m looking at the news pages on the web, looks like cable teevee has more currency minute by minute.

Update 1806: “We’ve Come to Take Our Government Back!” — Rand Paul. I’m liking him a lot better than his Dad. Girlfriend calls to my attention that New Mexico gubernatorial is going to the GOP, 85% to 15% with 1% reporting in.

Update 1814: Fox News calls the U.S. House of Representatives for the Republicans with a net gain of about sixty seats. Bye, Nancy.

Update 1818: Scott/Sink in Florida too close to call. Palin says Republicans need to reach out to dems, but to invite them to come on board because the train is leaving the station — but we are going in a different direction. Pay attention, this is a real leader talking. It’s got zip zero nada to do with labels, it’s all about direction.

Update 1822: Four Governor’s races called. Fallin beats Askins in Oklahoma; O’Malley hangs into his seat against Ehrlich in Maryland; Daugaard beats heidepriem in South Dakota; Bently beats Sparks in Alabama. That’s three Republican Governors against one democrat Govenor.

Update 1828: Cannot call the Reid/Angle race just yet. But they’re in my time zone. Most of the races called are in states & districts at least two hours ahead. Barney Frank prevails 63%-35% with 59% precincts reporting in. I’m going to remember this one, the “smart” money said there was a real ray of hope here. Southerland beats Boyd in Florida, 55% to 40% with 85% reporting in. Shea-Porter implodes in New Hampshire, a hyphenated female hippie with a huge cash advantage, loses against a Republican white male 56% to 40%.

Update 1833: Giving the girlfriend some shit because it looks like New York is not joining this “party” in any way shape or form. They end up looking not more sophisticated than the rest of the nation, they look more like they’re stuck in something, kind of like a trombone player who can only do one note.

Update 1839: On “Hannity”: “Complete repudiation of the democratic party.” That’s exactly what I want to hear, word for word. BURY THAT PARTY, get rid of all these silly ideas so we can debate on the things that really matter. Get rid of Keynesian economics, get rid of cap-n-tax, get rid of “sit down and talk to our enemies” with zip-zero about what would get talked-about. These are un-American ideas, they don’t belong here…and they’d be welcomed by lots and lots of other countries around the globe, none of which anybody takes seriously. GTFO and take your fail with you.

Update 1847: In Wisconsin, with 10% precincts reporting in they’re saying it’s too close to call, but at 58% to 41% it looks like a Johnson-against-Feingold win to me. In the Senate, GOP has picked up 3 and the dems have picked up zip. GOP needs 12 to take the chamber and the traitors need 6. Of course, they have Biden, so by my count they only need 5.

Update 1902: Fox News projecting win for McCain in Arizona against Rodney Glassman. Brandstad beats incumbent democrat Culver for Governor of Iowa. Tom Corbett beats Dan Onorato for Governor of Pennsylvania.

Update 1913: Kissell wins in North Carolina district #8, against Republican challenger Harold Johnson. Mike Kelly unseats democratic incumbent Kathy Dahlkemper in district #3. Republican Lou Barletta unseats Paul Kanjorski in Pennsylvania district #11. It has been over four years since Congressman-elect Barletta caught our attention. Yay Lou.

Update 1915: Local Republican party calls on my cell phone to make sure I voted. Hope that’s the last phone call this year like that…looks like New York just voted for a Republican by mistake. Someone in District #25 by the name of “Buerkle.” Heads will roll.

Update 1918: Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro are going to get in a catfight in the fountain — I mean, appear together on teevee. The woman I’d like to see as our next President, and the woman who is the very, very first politician I voted to reject. Can’t miss that.

Update 1923: Hickenlooper is the next Governor of Colorado. The democrat takes it by a very large margin. They just put up a color-coded map of the U.S. by congressional district, and it looks really, really bad for the dems. Lots of red. Palin and Ferraro are appearing side-by-side, and that looks bad for the dems too. Time has not been kind to Geraldine. Sarah, on the other hand, owns this night and she knows it. She looks guarded, competent, optimistic and…yep, presidential. Hate to break it to ya, Palin bashers.

Update 1929: Palin is crediting Ferraro for “busting” the “glass ceiling.” I guess when you’re female it might have looked different…but I vividly remember Ferraro being a grossly unpleasant personality and not much else. Combative with a capital-C. Acid in her veins. Maybe that’s part and parcel of being the challenger, but that’s no excuse. In 1984, we needed some solid strategies from both sides, and all we got out of Mondale-Ferraro was a lot of hostility. Nothing else. That’s why they lost 49 states. Palin is giving way too much credit — but, that is, after all, what she has to offer. She builds consensus without sacrificing an inch of turf.

These two women shouldn’t be sharing the same stage. They aren’t even in the same league.

Update 1936: Called Cassy earlier in the evening, since she was liveblogging and so was I. She indulged me for a few minutes and then demoted me to IM because talking & typing was a bit too challenging (actually, this was my experience as well). I see over on her site that Nikki Haley has won. Cool. Bob Gibbs beats Zack Space, democrat incumbent, in Ohio district #18. Also cool.

We’re going to tune into some of our Netflixes now until the news starts thinking about discussing the Pacific time zone, which is where it really matters to us. Things are looking alright so far.

Update 2010: Fox News is projecting the obvious: No refudiation in the Golden State, Brown & Boxer to win. Hope Babs got a good scare out of it anyway. The GOP takeover of the House looks more and more like a done deal. At this point, the GOP has 44 seats in the next Senate, compared to 49 for that other part plus 2 independents that caucus with them. So it’s a one-chamber smackdown; I’ll take it.

Update 2015: A bowling ball, being brainless, moves by sheer momentum and with no strategy or contemplation of cause and effect. Daily KOS commenters, being weak of mind are not too much different.

Update 2122: Brown is our next Governor and Boxer looks like she’s headed for a fourth term. Its California — we hate $$$. We don’t want ordinary people to have any of it, we want it all to go to super-duper-wonderful demigod democrat people. Looks like Reid has it in the bag, up by seven points, so Nevada hates prosperity too. Great to see Kasich pulled it out of the fire in Ohio, and Lungren and McClintock are doing well too. Thinking of hitting the sack before the Alaska race is done, which the Wall Street Journal is telling me might not happen for weeks anyway.

The bottom-line stuff looks pretty sweet. House is a complete blow-out. The Senate is quite a dent, not a toppling but that was a statistical long shot from the very start.

Had the entire Senate been up for grabs…well, you can plot that out at your leisure. Multiply the GOP gain there by three, and add to 41.

It’s a successful refudiation, no getting around it.

And we have to do it outside the margin of fraud, which will be considerable. Let us not forget the New Black Panthers, and the pre-filled Harry Reid ballots, and Senator Franken and all the rest.
- Severian | 11/02/2010 @ 07:54
I noticed that the liberal media has spent a lot of energy on deflection so far, yapping about how awesome it is that there are a lot of ethnic minorities running for seats, instead of talking about results. Of course, that was in a brief 10 minute or so interlude at MSNBC, so it might not be a completely fair jab I am throwing. Still…
- Andy | 11/02/2010 @ 17:52
Oh, we’er posting drinks? Jameson, my second. Next one gets some coke mixed in.
- Andy | 11/02/2010 @ 18:01

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