Election Day 2013: Results
- VA-AG race is going to a recount.
- Seattle Mayor: In the first round of voting, Ed Murray holds a double-digit lead.
- Washington state voters have nixed a ballot initiative mandating labeling of genetically modified foods.
12:03amEST: The Koch brothers fail to buy Coralville, Iowa.
Nov. 5, 11:48pmEST: In Minneapolis, Democratic city council member Betsy Hodges leads a roster of 35 candidates. It is unlikely that a winner will be announced until tomorrow due to the intricacies of the city’s ranked-choice voting system.
11:30pmEST: VA-AG race, with 99% of ballots counted, is within 1000 votes (.1%). Look for a recount.
11:15pmEST: Multiple sources call Detroit mayoral race for Mike Duggan.
10:50pmEST: AP reports Bradley Byrne Defeats Dean Young In AL-01 Congressional Runoff
10:41pmEST: Denver Post reports that Colorado voters have green-lighted a marijuana tax; voters HuffPo reports “Voters in three Michigan cities approved ordinances to legalize small amounts of marijuana for personal use Tuesday, adding to the growing patchwork of cities across the state that have decriminalized pot.
10:05pmEST: AP plays catch-up with NBC, calls VA-Gov for Terry McAuliffe.
9:50pmEST: NBC projects that the citizens of New Jersey have overruled Chris Christie’s veto of a minimum wage and approved it in a ballot measure. In Atlanta, Kasim Reed has been re-elected mayor.
9:39pmEST: NBC calls VA-Gov for Terry McAuliffe.
9:29pmEST: In Boston, news outlets are calling the mayoral race for Martin Walsh, who was strongly backed by unions.
9:00pmEST: Polls have closed in New York, and Bill DeBlasio is projected by multiple news outlets to be the next mayor of New York City. Progressivism returns to the city that never sleeps.
8:55pmEST: All of the cable networks trying to make a big story about how “close” the VA-Gov race is, but a few exit polls show McAuliffe winning outside the margin of error and gains for Dems in Virginia’s legislature.
8:11pmEST: NBC projects Democrat Ralph Northam will beat Bishop E.W. Jackson in the VA LtGov race.
8:00pmEST: Cable news networks call NJ-Gov for Chris Christie. We’re shocked. Not. NY Times predicts Christie will win by a 22% margin. While VA-Gov is too close to call, MSNBC is making much of Terry McAuliffe being in the exit-poll lead.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.