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In the 2008 elections for the US Senate, the 3BlueDudes site counted the results as
Final Projection: DEMS: 58 GOP: 39 INDEP: 2 Runoff: 1
3BlueDudes called Alaska for Begich (D) and Minnesota for Franken (D). We had a mandatory recount in Minnesota, an extremely tight race in Alaska, and a runoff in Georgia. Lawyers and volunteers have gathered for legal challenges and observing recounts. On Dec. 3, we are at D 57, R 40, I 2, with Minnesota still a total nail-biter.
Neither candidate reached 50% of the vote on Election Day, due to a third-party challenger. The resulting mandatory runoff between Democrat Jim Martin and Republican Saxby Chambliss was scheduled for Dec. 2. Chambliss won convincingly.
Chambliss is notorious for his smear campaign against Sen. Max Cleland, claiming that this Vietnam veteran and triple amputee is not patriotic. This time, with the Democrats clearly in the ascendant, Chambliss ran a much more centrist and moderately-toned campaign.
It was considered extremely important to defeat Chambliss, not only for Georgia's sake, but because that would have given the Democrats plus one Independent the 60 votes to cut off a filibuster without Joe Lieberman (D-CT).
Some (Guess who!) tried to call the election before all of the early and absentee ballots were counted, when Stevens was ahead in the partial count. The later counting ran significantly toward Begich, who took the lead.
Update: Begich has won, and top Republicans have called on Stevens to resign from the Senate.
Norm Coleman was ahead by the utterly miniscule margin of 206 votes in the initial count. The mandatory recount began on Wednesday Nov. 19. The Franken recount observer team and legal team are much better organized than the Coleman teams. Franken has won several important legal challenges.
On Dec. 2, the Franken team reported their estimate that Franken was only 50 votes behind. Someone discovered 171 uncounted ballots, giving Franken another 37. The rejected absentee ballots have still to be examined.
Final Projection: DEMS: 58 GOP: 39 INDEP: 2 Runoff: 1
3BlueDudes called Alaska for Begich (D) and Minnesota for Franken (D). We had a mandatory recount in Minnesota, an extremely tight race in Alaska, and a runoff in Georgia. Lawyers and volunteers have gathered for legal challenges and observing recounts. On Dec. 3, we are at D 57, R 40, I 2, with Minnesota still a total nail-biter.
Georgia
Neither candidate reached 50% of the vote on Election Day, due to a third-party challenger. The resulting mandatory runoff between Democrat Jim Martin and Republican Saxby Chambliss was scheduled for Dec. 2. Chambliss won convincingly.
Chambliss is notorious for his smear campaign against Sen. Max Cleland, claiming that this Vietnam veteran and triple amputee is not patriotic. This time, with the Democrats clearly in the ascendant, Chambliss ran a much more centrist and moderately-toned campaign.
It was considered extremely important to defeat Chambliss, not only for Georgia's sake, but because that would have given the Democrats plus one Independent the 60 votes to cut off a filibuster without Joe Lieberman (D-CT).
Alaska
Some (Guess who!) tried to call the election before all of the early and absentee ballots were counted, when Stevens was ahead in the partial count. The later counting ran significantly toward Begich, who took the lead.
Update: Begich has won, and top Republicans have called on Stevens to resign from the Senate.
Minnesota
Norm Coleman was ahead by the utterly miniscule margin of 206 votes in the initial count. The mandatory recount began on Wednesday Nov. 19. The Franken recount observer team and legal team are much better organized than the Coleman teams. Franken has won several important legal challenges.
On Dec. 2, the Franken team reported their estimate that Franken was only 50 votes behind. Someone discovered 171 uncounted ballots, giving Franken another 37. The rejected absentee ballots have still to be examined.
