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| Democrats keep Senate seat from Washington state |
| 2010-11-06 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Democratic Senator Patty Murray narrowly held her seat from Washington state, cushioning her party's majority in elections where Republicans made huge gains, results showed Thursday. Drat, blast and damn. Murray's Republican opponent Dino Rossi conceded after the latest official tally showed Murray with a lead of some 46,000 votes, or 51.26 percent, from Tuesday's ballot. "This evening, I called Senator Murray to offer my congratulations on her re-election to the US Senate," Rossi said in a statement. "I ran for the Senate because I believe we need a basic course correction... That was a message that found a very receptive audience all across this state, though not quite receptive enough." The win from the northwest state left the Democratic side with 53 seats, including two who are independents but normally vote with the Democratic caucus -- and the Republicans with 46. One more race remained undecided, in Alaska, where Republican Senator Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator?Murkowski -- who ran as a write-in candidate after losing in the primary -- was leading a three-way race with 41 percent. But Murkowski said the results would not be clear until absentee ballots are counted, starting next week. She expressed confidence in winning. "Our goal on election night was to end up with 40 percent of the vote and a lead of 10,000 votes in order to feel confident with our position heading into the count of absentee and question ballots that will occur over the next couple weeks," she said. "We exceeded our goals with 41 percent of the vote and a lead of about 13,500 votes." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 It would have been nice to get rid of Comrade Patty - but it's always been kind of a stretch. This is the Seattle area where the dead, felons and Imaginary Friends always vote Democrat. At least it soaked out a lot of money. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-11-06 11:59 |
| #2 I hope the Democrats enjoy their Senate majority for the next two years. Of its 53 members, I believe 23 are up for reelection in 2012. Many are in purple states. Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are still talking hard left/big spending. Let's see if rank and file Democrats worried about (their) jobs follow them. |
| Posted by: Lurker z 2010-11-06 10:32 |
| #1 Woulda been nice. However, it sucked up a lot of reelection money that had to stay home rather than be transferred to other races. Now is the time to id the races in 2012 to start the process to force her brethren to consume their reelection coffers as the other Donks are not in a position to transfer funds after this experience. Attrit their funding base. He who defends everything, defends nothing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-06 09:42 |