6:50: First thing’s first. Welcome, and be glad Pennsylvania’s Exit Polls aren’t leaking all over the net. Yet. Otherwise we’d have to deal with shit like this:

It’s from Drudge, if you’re not aware of the infamous “Drudge siren.” And those states’ polls aren’t even closed yet. That being said, our polls actually close at 8. We’ll probably be back around then, unless something truly drastic happens.

PS – Russ Feingold potentially leaving the Senate? That’s really fucking sad. Let it be known that Russ Feingold was the only senator to vote against the original Patriot Act — in 2001! In 2002, he was one of 28 senators to vote against HJ Resolution 114, aka, the War in Iraq (doesn’t seem so violent when it’s called HJ Resolution 114, right?) Given the Drudge Report’s red ink is correct, Senator Feingold will be missed.

PPS – This is on Politico.com, but probably means nothing.

06:46 PM STICK TO THE STORY: DCCC chief Chris Van Hollen is still saying all the pundits are wrong and that Democrats can hang on to the House. “What the pundits had predicted was this huge gap, this political energy deficit, and the fact of the matter is, we’re not seeing that right now on the ground,” he just said on MSNBC.

7:48: Still hate exit polls. Nevertheless, this is from the Huffington Post:

Leaked exit polls for key Senate races now spreading like wildfire among politicos:

Blumenthal (D-CT) +8
Rubio (R-FL) +21
Blunt (R-MO) +10
Boxer (D-CA) +8
Kirk (R-IL) +6
Paul (R-KY) +11,
NV–EVEN
Bennet (D-CO) +2
Toomey (R-PA) +4
Murray (D-WA) +6
Manchin (D-WV) +7
Johnson (R-WI) +5

That’s not a good sign for our boy Sestak.

Oh, and three Tea Party candidates have won their races, already (Paul, Coats, DeMint). More in a few.

8:07: No word yet on actual results, but Pennsylvania exit polls tell a could-be-fake-story.

Independents voted 62-37 AGAINST Onorato. That’s bad for him. In fact, according to exit polls, which again have no meaning, he’s lost every demographic, except Democrats.

Sestak – Toomey could be an entirely different race. Mostly because of this:

The fake polls make it look like anyone’s game.

8:14: I was wrong. Christine O’Donnell loses.

Win.

8:24: We have liftoff. CNN is showing (with 1 percent reporting) Sestak at 99 percent of the vote, and Toomey with…one percent!

Clearly, we have some ways to go.

Oh, and Bob Brady was re-elected.

8:27: Here’s something we can take from the one percent reporting in one district: In the same results, Dan Onorato only got 98 percent of the same voting bloc.

8:32: Warren County and Elk County, both in Northwest Pennsylvania, have gone for Sestak Toomey, 65-36, 52-48, respectively.

8:40: In U.S. House of Representatives news, Rick Hellberg currently has 6 votes, opposed to Fattah’s almost 1,000. Just saying.

8:44: MSNBC is showing a 69-31 percent spread for Sestak with one percent in.

8:47: Oh, South Jersey. Philly.com has Runyan trouncing Adler in Jersey’s 3rd, so far, 59-37 percent. Wow.

8:50: Sestak has Allegheny, Washington, Crawford, Clinton, Dauphin, potentially. Toomey has Warren, Elk, Greene, Snyder, Juanita, Wyoming, Northumberland, Montour, Perry.

8:55: A sledgehammer had to be used to open a polling place in West Philly this morning, NBC is reporting. Expect conservative conspiracy theorists to use this should something not go in their favor. It’s probably the REAL reason Michelle Obama was in Philly last night — West Philly, no less.

8:57: Bucks County is going in heavy favor of Sestak, so far.

9:01: NBC News is calling the House for the GOP.

9:04: With 5 percent of the vote in, Sestak leads Toomey 67-33. Lots of traditionally red counties have yet to be processed. CNN has projected Fattah the winner in Pennsylvania’s 2nd District.

9:07: 3 Percent reporting in Pennsylvania’s 8th (Murphy-Fitzpatrick). Murphy leads 59-41.

9:10: Attempting to log onto FoxNews.com is crashing our server. The wingers must be freaking with their page loads.

9:14: 9 percent in and Onorato still leads 61-39.

9:22: Pennsyltucky counties are coming in and Toomey is beginning to move up, CNN has it at 57-43.

9:27: How about this? ABC News has Corbett down 48-52 percent with 19 percent reporting, but is calling the state for him.

9:30: CNN is calling Pennsylvania’s 13th District and it looks like Allyson Schwartz, the Nancy Pelosi of the East, is the winner.

9:38: “Christine O’Donnell’s loss ‘not really a surprise in deep blue Delaware, but disappointing,’ Sarah Palin tells Fox”

9:43: Not sure if this guy is going to stay in politics, but for anyone who doesn’t know, Allyson Schwartz’s Republican opponent was/is named Dee Adcock.

Dee Adcock.

9:47: Almost half the state’s votes have come in. Onorato and Corbett are tied at 50 percent. Sestak leads 54-46 percent.

9:50: City results, thus far, according to Phillyelectionresults.com (what a handy website, one day per year): Sestak OVER Toomey, 81-18. Onorato OVER Corbett, 80-19.

9:54: The Committee of Seventy is reporting general low turnout throughout Philadelphia.

9:59: Corbett, Fitzpatrick and Meehan have all pulled ahead, according to Philly.com results. In the Murphy-Fitzpatrick case, 67 percent is in. That’s bad for the Murphy. What the hell does he do now?

10:00: Jon Runyan is a Congressman. Adler will publicly concede momentarily.

U.S. Rep. John Adler has conceded defeat to his Republican challenger, former Eagle Jon Runyan.

Adler called Runyan shortly before 10 p.m., according to Adler’s spokesman, Ryan Carbain.

The battle for the 3rd District, which runs through Burlington and Ocean counties and includes Cherry Hill in Camden County, was New Jersey’s most expensive and bitter House race.

10:08: Out of state, Republicans have been winning lots of races, but so far have only changed two from blue to red, so far: Arkansas and North Dakota. In Kentucky, Rand Paul announced, “Tonight, there’s a Tea Party tidal wave.”

10:12: 69 percent of precincts reporting and Sestak leads Toomey by two. Corbett leads Onorato by six, though ABC News, as we’ve said, has already called the state for Corbett.

10:17: Also from out of state, Alan Grayson, Florida’s self-proclaimed “Congressman with Guts,” got destroyed by Republican Daniel Webster, 56-39. Probably not the worst thing in the world. The dude used to go on the Alex Jones radio show and once referred to someone as a “whore” on that show.

10:25: Upstate, Paul Kanjorski, who’s been in the House since 1985, got pummeled by longtime foe Lou Barletta, who Kanjorski has beaten in his last two elections. Now, does old Paul challenge his foe again in 2012? We assume no, since he’ll be 75, but stranger things have happened.

10:28: Philly.com and CNN are calling the Pennsylvania governor’s race for Tom Corbett. Woe is us.

10:32: David Schuster just said, “This is no longer George Bush’s Republican Party.” He also says rural Democrats have experienced a “bloodbath.”

10:36: NBC News just called Wisconsin for Johnson. That is so sad.

10:46: A Rasmussen exit poll today found the following results which we find interesting:

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of these voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are.

Only 10% say that member of Congress is more conservative, while 27% see his or her views as about the same as theirs.

Fifty-five percent (55%) say it’s more accurate to describe the political views of most Democrats in Congress as extreme rather than mainstream.

Just 36% think the views of congressional Democrats are more accurately described as mainstream.

The survey of 1,000 Voters in the Eastern time zone was conducted on November 2, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

By contrast, only 42% of voters say the average Republican in Congress is more conservative than they are. Twenty-six percent (26%) say that congressman is more liberal, and 24% say their views are about the same.

10:50: After all the talk about Meehan and Lentz, it looks like Meehan is set to squash the Democrat.

10:56: Fitzpatrick is destroying Pat Murphy in Bucks/NE Philly and has just been declared the winner by Philly.com.

11:00: Fox29’s Jim Gardner just said, “For the first time tonight, Pat Toomey has taken a lead.” — he’s up 1,722,627-1,705,926.

11:02: Sestak’s headquarters “remains optimistic” partly because of Onorato’s loss.

11:04: Toomey is EVEN MORE optimistic because they claim the state is only waiting on Lancaster and York counties — both Republican leaning…Toomey is now leading by 25,000 votes with 3.4 million votes cast.

11:07: Philly.com has turned Toomey-Sestak from a 50-50 split to 51-49 in favor of Toomey.

11:12: 94 percent of precincts reporting in PA, and Toomey’s now ahead 1,804,052-1,770,785.

11:15: We’re not in the business of calling races but in spite of our hopes and dreams, we’re calling it for Toomey.

11:20: Democrats have a definite 48 seats, Republicans a definite 44. States still waiting: PA, IL, WA, CA, NV, CO. You know what’s cool? Waiting for the final 5 percent of the PA vote to come in.

11:31: Toomey’s expanding his lead. Percentage-wise, it’s up to 52-48.

11:38: Jim Gardner on ABC: “52 thousand votes now separating these two candidates.”

11:44: PhillyClout: Governor-elect Tom Corbett, delivering a victory speech in Pittsburgh, just called New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie his “role model” for moving forward on the state’s troubled budget and the public employee pension system.

11:46: Now, they’re saying the votes being counted are coming from Philadelphia and Montgomery, aka, Sestak votes. Geez. We’re still going with Toomey. Miraculous comebacks don’t happen too often.

11:48: The Associated Press has called the race for Pat Toomey, according to ABC6.

11:50: Just heard our least favorite words as Jim Gardner signed off: “Republican sweep.”

11:53: ABC News has been right all night and they’re calling this thing for Toomey.

11:53: ABC News is also saying “Democrats will retain control of the United States Senate.”

11:55: Philly.com is calling this thing for Toomey, too. Toomey it is. What the hell does Sestak do now? Take that White House job he was offered oh so long ago?

12:30: So, if Harry Reid keeps his Senate seat in Nevada (he’s currently on track to do so), do they keep him as party leader? I’d go with no.

If you’re looking to be cheered up, keep this in mind: On Halloween, when the Obamas greeted trick-or-treaters, one African American child was dressed as the Grim Reaper. Conservative blogs and FoxNation covered this young boy, this trick-or-treater, as someone who was actually making a political statement against President Obama. A Fox News headline read, “Obama Comes Face To Face With The Obama Joker.”

Wingnuts can claim this election, but when it comes down to it, their hatred is so hard, their anger is so deep, they can’t help but to think of everything in terms of The Obama Joker. They see nothing but their own vileness to the point of utter stupidity and will absolutely never know it. Charles Johnson, over at Little Green Footballs, put it best when he said of “Gateway Pundit”’s initial blog of the “Child Dresses as Obama Joker”:

One blog is a beacon of stupidity, a shining symbol of what can be achieved by an illiterate religious fanatic boiling with crazed hatred and homophobia in the swamp that passes for right wing commentary, a blogger whose exceptionally thick-headed posts are often turned into Fox News items and cited with approval by all the top wingnuts…

To set the scene: at the White House Halloween party, kids in costume are filing past Obama as he hands out gift packages; there’s a princess, a detective, a ghost, a skeleton, and then, an African American kid wearing the Joker face paint from the enormously popular Batman movie, The Dark Knight.

Of course, as soon as Hoft sees a black face wearing Joker makeup, it can only mean one thing in his alleged mind: it’s an Obama Joker!

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This story is now being pushed by both Fox Nation and Glenn Beck’s fake news site The Blaze, proving once again that it’s impossible to be too stupid for right wing media.

Today’s Republican doesn’t — can’t — think straight about issues, because they see politics in terms of cable news stations and talk radio, where screaming down opponents and cutting off their microphones is commonplace. Long gone are the days of Barry Goldwater — say hello to Rand Fucking Paul. They look at the world according to a hatred of the other side so deep, they can’t help but to think children hate with them. They believe that as they hate, their friends, other Internet commenters, people in Israel, policemen and God hates, too.

And that’s how they’re going to rule the House. It’s how they’re going to gridlock the Senate. It’s how they operate.

But that’s what’s so great about times like this. All’s not lost because now the Republicans have to do more than simply hate without reason and filibuster everything that comes through the Senate. They have to introduce their own legislation. They have to pass bills and work for America’s progress. Perhaps Americans voted for them to bring the country out of our fiscal hole. Well, OK. Then do something, Speaker John Boehner. Do something, Michele Bachman. Don’t just sit there, vote no and go home. Give us something to work with. Try to use that hate for something, I don’t know…productive?

Not happening. If nothing else, maybe this elections will give us an Obama that’s not working to compromise for people like Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, John Adler — maybe, now, we get an angry Obama. The Obama whose own hatred is used to create something productive.