Montana: Tester Versus Burns

[Nbadan]

U.S. Senate
(7 of 867 Precincts Reporting


Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 5,987 51
R Conrad BURNS 5,424 46
LB Stan JONES 293 3

CBS News (http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2006/state.shtml?state=MT)

[Nbadan]

23 of 867 Precincts Reporting)

Jon TESTER
Conrad BURNS

Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 19,328 54
R Conrad BURNS 15,443 44
LB Stan JONES 753 2

[Nbadan]

U.S. Senate
(178 of 867 Precincts Reporting)

Jon TESTER (D)
Conrad BURNS (R)

Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 57,596 56
R Conrad BURNS 43,773 42
LB Stan JONES 2,257 2

[Zunni]

Burns is a fucking Abramhof crony crook. I hope he loses. The CNN pundits were thinking this one was lost because Tester wasn't mean enough. I like that he wouldn't do attack pieces and yet might win.

[Nbadan]

Burns (R) is still behind in Montana

U.S. Senate
(328 of 867 Precincts Reporting)

Jon TESTER
Conrad BURNS

Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 85,786 53
R Conrad BURNS 72,055 45
LB Stan JONES 3,796 2

[MannyIsGod]

Awesome. Its all about Virginia.

[Nbadan]

The real race to watch maybe Montana. Burns is tightening.....

U.S. Senate
(510 of 867 Precincts Reporting)

Jon TESTER
Conrad BURNS

Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 118,905 51
R Conrad BURNS 108,206 47
LB Stan JONES 5,591 2

[T Park]

Tester has it in the Bag.

[Nbadan]

It's up to Burns to save the Republican majority in the Senate

[Nbadan]

MSNBC is reporting MT may be called for Tester in the next half hour - stay tuned

[MannyIsGod]

http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elections/general/ussenate/index.asp

Pay special attention to Yellowstone county.

[Nbadan]

UPDATE 7158 lead for Tester!!!

Tester Dem 149922
Burns Rep* 142764

[MannyIsGod]

:)

[Nbadan]

Manny is in a prophesy zone tonight...

The totals from Yellowstone County disappeared from the official Montana Sec. of State website and media sites. Rumor is they are doing a complete hand recount of the county.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Tester 8,000 ahead.

[Nbadan]

According to Burns campaign announcement carried live by CNN Pipeline:

70000 votes in Yellowstone county to be recounted from scratch because a "machine malfunction" wiped out the vote count when machine rebooted. Also, problems with machines in Flathead and Gallatin counties. Expect results no sooner than 7AM MT.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Expect results no sooner than 7AM MT.

Fuck that, I'm going to bed.

[Chris Bell]

Tester 194914
Burns 193179

One small county still to come in

[McKenzie]

Come on, Montana. I want to see my birth state turn blue.

[valluco]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eln_election_rdp

WASHINGTON - Democrats erased the Republican Senate majority Wednesday with a cliffhanger victory in Montana, hours after taking control of the House. The battle for Senate control came down to Virginia, where Democrats held a small lead.

[Nbadan]

Another DEMO victory...

Jon Tester Declares Victory (D-Montana Senate)

Says he's up a couple thousand votes with only 800 or so votes left to be counted.

CNN (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/senate)

[Crookshanks]

You don't think there will be a recount? I just heard this morning that when Montana got their democrat governor, they rammed through legislation that allowed same day registration/voting. This was proven to allow widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin in the last election - I wonder how much it affected this race.

[ChumpDumper]

I haven't heard one whiff of news about irregularities in Montana. You got a link?

[Crookshanks]

I haven't heard one whiff of news about irregularities in Montana. You got a link?

I'm not saying there was voter fraud - I heard John Fund (Wall Street Journal) this morning and he was talking about the voter fraud in Wisconsin (in the last election) resulting from same day registration/voting. He said Montana had passed this same legislation and he wondered if it had any effect on this election.

[Chris Bell]

A recount can be requested by either party if it's a close enough election, and this one seems to qualify. In Montana I believe the requestor has to pay for it.

[DarkReign]

Tester wins. This midterm is getting awfully weird.