ABC News says a Virginia recount would have to wait until after Nov 27 With control of the Senate down to whether Jim Webb has taken the Virginian Senate seat from George Allen a report on ABC News tonight suggests that things are not going to be settled quickly. This is what their website is saying “A win in Virginia would squeeze out a 51-49 Senate majority for the Democrats. Without it, the chamber would split 50-50 and Vice President…
Money piles on as the uncertainty continues A major row is going on over how Betfair are going to settle their market on whether the Democrats or the Republicans won most seats in yesterday’s election for the US senate. At issue are the positions of two men – Joseph Lieberman and Bernie Sanders – neither of whom won on the Democrat ticket. Lieberman won re-election as the “Connecticut For Lieberman” party candidate – an independent political party he created after…
Could the Midterm result increase the pressure on his departure date? With all eyes focussed on the final seats in the battle for the US Senate how is Tony Blair feeling about the way American voters have treated his partner in the Iraqi adventure? Could this massive rejection of the Republicans, which seemed so unlikely a few months ago, spill over into UK politics? Will this make Tony’s remaining time at Number 10 that bit more uncomfortable? For joining with…
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Is Bush’s money on his party holding both houses? This new thread has been put up to manage the demand on our servers. Watch out for another thread that should start at about 5am. With so many users constantly loading and re-loading the shorter the threads the better. Latest House betting here. Latest Senate betting here Mike Smithson
Punters still give the House to the Dems with the GOP retaining the Senate Punters have been piling onto the Democrats on Betfair’s election markets in the hope of picking up a small profit even though the best price is now moving to 0.04/1. That means that a successful £100 bet would produce profits of just £4. In the Senate race it is a bit closer with the Republicans at 0.53/1 and the Democrats at 1.52/1. It could still be…
Will his party hold both the House and Senate, one or neither? With reports starting to come in from across the US it’s clear we are in for an exciting night. And, in the fashion of US elections, there are the reports of problems with electronic voting machines in several state. This has almost become a tradition. According to ABC News ” Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts Tuesday, delaying…
A timely reminder from two years ago At 1.05am EST on November 3rd 2004 the US news channel, CNN, showed the above graphic on the screen illustrating the result of an exit poll in Ohio, the key state that Senator John Kerry had to win if he was to beat George W. Bush for the Presidency. The message was clear. Kerry was ahead in Ohio and the chances were that the state would give him enough votes in the electoral…