Fox is reporting that Talent’s weakness is his bad bullpen–only 7 points ahead with St. Louis and Kansas City still to be heard from. That margin is too small.
In Virginia, it’s going to come down to the last surviving Confederate widow. 12,000 votes.
Meanwhile, rumblings in Maryland. The GOP has refused to give up on Steele. The Washpost has taken down calling the state for Cardin.
And, wow.
Wow.
1) Fox news 2) announces that Nick Lampson (D) wins 3) Tom DeLay’s old seat, thus, in Fox’s count 4) handing the House to the Dems.
In other news, Shelly Sekula-Gibbs wins the special election to fill out all eight weeks remaining in Tom DeLay’s term, to be succeeded by Lampson. And, in what may be the story of the night, 42% of those voting manipulated the spinning typist to write in “SHELLY SEKULA-GIBBS” vs. Lampson in the separate regular election.
What may be the only close-to-intriguing story in the most boring Texas election cycle in my 17 years of living here (and no, Kinky Friedman didn’t help) is how the Sekula-Gibbs/Lampson battle (District DeLay) starts tomorrow and shapes up for 2008. And really, that’s all there is in these parts.
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This is what Virginia came down to: the rapidly growing Beltway north, which has little or nothing (more nothing than little) in common with the Confederate south. When it turned out that the big precinct that hadn't yet been counted was Fairfax county, things suddenly looked much sunnier for Webb. Republicans can no longer take it for granted that their strength in rural areas will make up for the Democratic north.
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