My only election blogging

1. Patrick Nielsen Hayden has a good post up about, among other things, the race for State Senate in my district.

I commented thusly:

I happened to see Andrea Stewart-Cousins this morning--she was shaking hands outside my polling place--and I told her I hoped she could make the [Working Families Party] pinheads regret not endorsing her. She said she was just thankful that they withheld their traditional endorsement of Spano--last election he got 1800 votes on the WFP line, or 100 times as many votes as his margin of victory.

Withdrawing their endorsement from a moderate Republican with past support and broad popularity was, in fact, a big move for WFP. I agree with you that it wasn't nearly enough--Spano is, as you say, a disgusting vote-suppressor. But it's something.

As of this writing, Stewart-Cousins is winning by 2% with 81% of the vote. It is quite likely that the margin of victory will be less than 1800 votes overall.

2. Avedon Carol said,

Just FYI, the Vote predictoris projecting a Democratic win in the Senate, 51-49 (although I assume that 51 includes Independent Bernie Sanders, who certainly looks set to win).

I responded,

I think that the 51D-49R projections have to count Lieberman as a D. Which is worse than bad. It's still possible that the Senate will end up 50D-48R-2I, but I'm not optimistic, and I'm trying to decide if 49R-49R-2I is worse than 48D-50R-2I or not. Having Lieberman as the most important person in the Senate is an utterly appalling concept; a Republican Senate with Lieberman completely on the outs might actually be better, as long as the Democrats take the House.

[Edited to add: Which, as of 11 PM and a little, everyone is saying they have.]

3. I am more grateful than I can express of everyone who has taken time off from work to volunteer for campaigns. This means you, sarah_ovenall, but also anyone else who can see this.