Is it already night-time in the Arkansas-Iowa-Utah portion of Real America? Yes! And thanks to Wonkette veteran Princess Sparkle Pony for posting this blingee he made for Blanche Lincoln, who is now LOSING, with 60% of the vote counted. She’s only got 49%, and that’s apparently “less than 50%” and that means let’s start the next round of our (Some of) America votes (June) 2010 Liveblogging! ALSO: Nikki Haley has to have a runoff, which means so many sexy stories about Nikki Haley’s boy-toys.
10:26 PM — The previous super-soaker Liveblogging is here, in case you’ve Lost Your Way.
10:29 PM — It wasn’t so long ago when Olbermann honored your editor with that “Worst Guy In the Solar System” award, and now Olbermann is praising Twitters by wingnut-beat reporter Dave Weigel. How far we’ve come!
10:32 PM — But the Politico says Blanche Lincoln now has 51.3%, with 63.3% reporting. She’s back, like a squealing Razorback!
10:35 PM — Meanwhile, in Iowa, America’s other favorite dirty-Twitter-typer Chuck Grassley might just win his uncontested GOP primary. Go Chuck! Let’s check his Twitter:
Isreal is a sovereign state They hv rite to defend their citizenry Neighbors shld recognize Statehood for Israel 10:32 PM Jun 3rd via UberTwitter
10:38 PM — CNN is running murder news. And on CNN Headline News, as always, it is murder news. CNN is America’s Place 4 Politics.
10:39 PM — “Voters in New Jersey went to the polls for the state’s primary, and sent a former Philadelphia Eagle off to a fall battle with an incumbent for a seat in the House of Representatives. Jon Runyan beat attorney Justin Murphy to win the Republican nomination for New Jersey’s third congressional district.” SEE?
10:44 PM — States with fake no-contest elections tonight are: Virginia, North Dakota and the Maine House races. These states will be expelled from the Union.
10:50 PM —
11:00 PM — And how many newsy items did WordPress just eat? Three? Four? We’ll never know. But Blanche “I hate Democrat stuff” Lincoln squeaked by, AP calls it for her, hooray?
11:01 PM — Polls are closed in California. Are you ready for the Jungle Primary? Well, check back in two or three hours! Go Orly!
11:02 PM — Oh yeah, we wanted to say this: It is sad to not have Newell here for liveblogging, and maybe sadder still that he’s not liveblogging (or posting Election Night news at all) for Gawker. Needs more Glee, we guess.
11:03 PM — Jim Gibbons is out of the gate with a strong (cough, tomatoes) 23% in the Republican primary.
11:10 PM — Oh golly, Bland Blanche Lincoln is giving her victory speech. Oh her vote “is not for sale,” eh? Unless you own a health insurance company. Fraud.
11:12 PM — “Ar-Kansans,” meh. Maybe she’ll show some interest in what Democrats think?
11:14 PM — The new conventional wisdom here will be that Lincoln’s half-ass barely-won-her-runoff is a “victory” for the White House, because the Obama administration very blandly supported her, sort of, and would’ve been completely fine with the Democrat winning.
11:15 PM — Brian Sandoval has WON the GOP primary for governor, so good-bye, sleazy Jim Gibbons.
11:27 PM — Let’s switch the West Coast Liveblogging Nightmare, starting NOW.
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Why is Israel called a state rather than a nation? Is it because we’re a big brother to same?
Who the hell is voting for Jim Gibbons in Nevada? What sort of constituency could he possibly have at this point?
Can we get Peter Huestis on the masthead? Dude’s in DC, can write like a motherfucker, and kicks all manner of ass. Also, hand turkeys and Blingees. Make it happen, Ken.
Bwa-ha-haaaaa, the AP played a joke on Nate. In your face, hippie math guy!!
10:40 PM [Nate]. Oops, something funny was going on with the AP’s vote counting there. Halter now losing by 20 in Pulaski country. BAD news for him.
10:28 PM [Nate]. Whoa, Halter leading by 18 points in Pulaski County (Little Rock) so far. He lost it by 12 in May. If that holds up, that’s a TOTAL game-changer.
I really wish Blanche Lincoln would lose. I hate that bitch. I gave money to DFA when they said they were going to campaign against her. If she wins, what’s she going to do to take her revenge agaisnt us: vote with the Republics? Yeah. Nothing for liberals and the unions to lose, helping her Democratic opponent.
73% in. Lincoln 51, Halter 49
To look forward to losing in November??
G**dammit–that bitch Blanche Lincoln is winning. 51%. I hate that bitch.
WHAT IS HAPPENNING WITH CAROL CHHANNING!
[re=594918]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: That’s not Carol Channing – that’s Olry Taintz at her VICTORY party!
AP just called it for Lincoln with 80% in.
[re=594917]DustBowlBlues[/re]:
The Twins have defeated KC. So now I am free to agree with you.
Blanche Lincoln is a regrettable person to have on the Democratic Ticket.
But, really Baseball is something one can find solace in, yes?
Nitey nite, losers. Bed time for me. Since Halter didn’t make me as happy as the season finale of Glee did, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for Orly Taintz. Taitz? Fucking immigrants. Those Mexican names confuse me.
HuffPo is calling Lincoln with 82.2% in.
Olberman gave you Worst Person in the World, Ken? What did you do to deserve that honor?
Politico also calls Lincoln.
[re=594909]doxastic[/re]: well-preserved hausfraus in southwest Reno with aspirations to be First Ladee, mostly.
Blanche may have depended on the kindness of strangers but she shouldn’t count on all the Halter voters in November.
[re=594928]chascates[/re]: I bet they feel silly. Mike Allen this morning reported that Lincoln was going to lose by at least 5 points, according to unnamed “top Arkansas sources,” who at this point I’m guessing were George Hamilton and some disgruntled member of the Walton clan.
Hooray for Alvin Greene of SC! May you provide us with all manners of hilarity, you unknown bastard, in your feeble attempt to beat DeMint
[re=594927]imissopus[/re]: One last comment: Knowing my Keith, Ken made fun of him. I like Olberman, but he really can’t take a joke.
The Int’l noozfeedz report that Der Gropenführer had to cast two ballots yesterday since the first was rejected when it was at long last reveled that Ahhhnold’s a dirty messikin; however, when he explained that he’s married to a rich white woman, he was allowed to vote a second time…
[re=594923]Joy[/re]: No. Not in Baltimore, the black hole (not spewing oil yet, but give it time) of baseball. Dem O’s suck so bad I must look to politics for inspiration. So yeah, I’m fucked.
Where’s Orly?
Just listened to Blanche. Inspiring!
Blanche winning sucks rat dick. The rest is just comedy fodder, teabagger monkeys in a barrel….sigh….
FASTER, KEN, FASTER
Did Oily win yet? I live in California, but NCIS is on and the remote is waaaaay over there….
Chicken Lady is in trouble. I can practically hear Harry Reid cackling, and I don’t think proper Mormons cackle.
[re=594909]doxastic[/re]: Drunken rapists must be voting for him. There must be plenty of drunken rapists in Las Vegas.
[re=594942]JimNewell[/re]: Kisses, ginger.
Oh! The Ginger is here!
[re=594945]Numbat Dundee[/re]: Isn’t that a residency requirement?
[re=594942]JimNewell[/re]: KEN! Look who’s here!!! Hi Jim!
Hey, this is like at a Rat Pack show, where Frankie’s just yodeling into his scotch and then Sammy Davis just starts crooning in from backstage. So exciting, so magical. Much applause.
Do Jersey voters have no memory? Runyan was a very promising recruit, who failed to deliver; there’s a reason no teams picked him up after the Eagles dropped him. Ah, but the Jersey fans are always the worst fans, so it would make sense that the Jersey voters would make the worst voters; they picked Chris Christie after all.
[re=594942]JimNewell[/re]: Are you NEVER satisfied? and thanks for the trolls this weekend, Also!
[re=594943]Joshua Norton[/re]: Yes, dear. The Rep.s are now stuck w/her as a candidate…. In CA all things are possible and probable. Just Ask Our Fearless Leader, Kitty Pope!!
Gimme some crazy. Just a little Taitz?
Nothing left to do but cross my fingers and wish for some cross-border donut bumping between Nikki and Blanche.
Hi, Newell.
[re=594936]gradgrind[/re]:
I agree. You are fucked. I am pretty sure I am too, if that makes you feel better!
Your O’s do suck it hard. My Twin’s are dazzling right now. We have the beautiful new park. And all the boy’s are really doing a job that makes me say Go!!!!!!!!! But reality will intervene and the boys will blow it………
And Ken, BTW, Razorbacks don’t “squeak” by….. they “squeal” by! (see ref: “Paddle faster, I hear banjos playing!!”)
OT : Mr. J. Dickey; yes, you had to watch James; he loved to grab the females’ asses, and he brought a forbidden flask in his hip pocket into an editorial meeting…. – I myself was a victim of said assgrabbing; but he was funny as hell! and really just a harmless good ‘ole boy….
Jim…meet PsychDick…PsychDick…meet Jim.
Hooray for Blanche! Suck it, hippies.
Teh Int’l noozfeadz report that Kobe Bryant has just won the Lord-Mayoralty of Baaaahston…
[re=594936]gradgrind[/re]: What do you call a worn-out Bawlmer Oriole?
Tarred and feathered.
Damn, while Ken was obsessing on minor Alabama candidates, we missed out on all the fun of the Oily Taint campaign. I’m going to take this up with my notary public!
[re=594942]JimNewell[/re]: I thought they banhammered you, asshole.
Ken? Ken, can we do something about this troll?
Fuck Newell. I actually checked Gawker.com several times today and yesterday.
I have comments.
1. If Jim only has to post once or twice a day (and while the alt-text is OK, it feels slackingoff-ish.
2. Really? You only get to “pipe up” a couple times a day? How much are they paying you to shut the F*** up??????
3. Gawker Sucks. Come Back Jim (which really negates the whole “Fuck Jim” thing I guess….)
Chris Matthews compares Lincoln/Halter to Leno/Conan:
http://bit.ly/ckSi0d
Meg Whitman has won?
[re=594967]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: ALL HAIL PRESIDENT OILYTITZ!!!11!!!
8.7 percent reporting in the Golden State:
Damon Dunn 245,363 74.4%
Orly Taitz 84,512 25.6%
Let the vote fraud allegations begin!
[re=594968]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Perhaps Ken’s been too
drunkbusy to collect this ‘Newell’ character’s servant-door keys…[re=594942]JimNewell[/re]: Best wishes, even at Gawker.
go nader!
[re=594968]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: OH, sure, NOW you ask to banhammer him. Slacker!!!
I live in a half-affluent, half-redneck county in the Big BA. (Hint: Phil Garrido) It thrills me that The Birther Queen already has over 6,000 votes from my county, and only 8% of polls have reported.
[re=594962]Radiotherapy[/re]: It’s just; a racist troll who tried to claim the Arizona racist was really justified was bad enough; but when he/she started blogwhoring – for a Myspace page? That’s beyond the pale. Anyway, that person needs a hammerin’. (Oh, and Neilist? Needs a big-time hammerin’.)
[re=594972]Bearbloke[/re]: Somehow I have missed this phenomenon. I tried to watch a video of her, and enamel began peeling from my teeth. Ain’t America grand, where crazy-ass, space-alien-probed lawyer/dentists (who make ‘Chele Bachmann seem like Aristotle) can represent major political parties? Lord A’mighty, this was not something they covered in junior high Civics class.
[re=594971]chascates[/re]: “Meg Whitman has won?”
Incompetent has defeated crazy? But … but … but … California was always so good at crazy. Go Orly, go Orly, go Orly.
[re=594986]JMP[/re]: Ditto, all but Neilist… Oh, comeon… he’s funny, sometimes. And several of the Wonketteers evidently like discussing armament issues w/him, altho I really don’t get that.. We must have Some diversity, n’est pa?
Carol Channing will slap a lawsuit on the numeric system so god damned fast it’s head will be spinning!
[re=594990]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: Democracy is messy, to quote an asshole with the initlals D.R.
I for one welcome diversity, as long as it doesn’t equal insanity… as in Germany ca. 1930s….
[re=594990]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: That’s because your teachers weren’t from ‘Real America’!
[re=594998]Words[/re]: Damon Runyon wrote about politics? Ah, that explains so much.
[re=594992]Words[/re]: You are a more tolerant person than me (re: Neilist).
Did you find that missing fucking cross yet, or what?
[re=595008]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: Your sense of humor is great!! I love Damon Runyon… and OT, but “Sit Down Yuo’re Rockin’ the Boat” is great— do you know who did the music for that? I Hate Sinatra, but even he couldn’t take away my enjoyment of that musical!
[re=595013]JMP[/re]: I try to be tolerant. I live in an intolerant state. Had a very intolerant, abusive father. Live and let live, as long as, to quote Virginia Wolff, “you don’t startle the horses in the street.” S eriously, if we all let the unimportant shit go, we’d be able to concentrate on what’s important… i.e., how to survive in an imperfect world….
Sorry… Yeeck!??!!!!
Sermon over kiddies, Vacation Bible school is out!!!
Oleo Twatz didn’t win in California. I haz a sad.
Son of a bitch! West coast liveblog shut me right the fuck out, got some dumbass pop-up requiring me to sign in all over again, then just laughs at me. Fuck that.
At least you can still blog on this thread. Ken has apparently shut down the latest one in disgust.
Good to hear that; I was wondering if that’s what the banhammer looked like from the wrong end.
[re=595022]chascates[/re]:
Right!
Layne, Newell – which of you drongos broke teh Wonkett machine by spilling bong-water on it – again?
This is why we can’t have nice things…
Or maybe this is like the finale of “Lost”, we’re ALL banhammered and don’t know it yet…
[re=595019]Joshua Norton[/re]: She’s still consistently at about 25%. That should be frightening enough.
[re=595022]chascates[/re]: I think wonkette is about to explode. It just couldn’t handle the excitement of this thrilling primary event!
[re=595017]Words[/re]: You *hate* Sinatra? Eh… ?!?
What sort of inhuman alien beast are you exactly? Are you something other than a carbon-based life form?
(Oh and ‘Guys and Dolls’ is pure cinematic genius. You couldn’t change many details of that one to make it any better.)
[re=595021]Jim89048[/re]: Ah, so it’s not just me; it looks like the thread is closed.
[re=595017]Words[/re]: That kind of thing makes me glad for my parents, as annoying as they can be at least the mean well; sorry you had to go through that.
(I’m just pissed at the world right now a bit. Long story short, met a cute and seemingly intelligent, interesting and interested girl Friday, seemed to hit it off, got phone number, called yesterday, got voice mail, left my number, since then – nothing).
[re=595019]Joshua Norton[/re]: Very sad; that is a failure for comedians everywhere.
[re=595028]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Sinatra stole it all from Bing and Dino…
[re=594975]AddHomonym[/re]: “IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT!!!1!!! WHERE’S HIS BIRF SERTIFIKIT???!!!?!?”
Commenting has returned to the latest thread! We’ve pass the test!
Ugh, sorry people, I told you all the computers were going batshit tonight. (Newell took the “good computers” to Gawker. HI JIM WHY DON’T YOU HELP ME FOR GOD’S SAKE NOT LIKE YR DOING ANYTHING.)
[re=595028]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Oh, my. And here I was thinking you’re pretty cool. His ego outlasted his talent. … I’ve always been a sucker for the dancers…. My mom loved to watch Gene Kelley, Fred A., and Donald O’Connor… I love old movies. Humphrey Bogart… now There’s a Man! …”you know how to whistle, doncha? Just put your lips together and blow!!” sigh. (yes I know, Lauren B’s line, but still… HB looked Great!)
[re=595029]JMP[/re]: Don’t worry. You’re better than that, judging by your comments here. Plus, Hey! you just don’t know what happened. Maybe something came up w/her family, or her cat/dog died…. This is just Tues. Don’t be so impatient!! And if she doesn’t call, her loss, ok?
[re=595033]Ken Layne[/re]: Dammit Ken! you’re a guy …. you’re supposed to know this technical shit. The trolls Jim N. sicced on us may have something to do w/it.
Altho, you DO have a point re: Jim. —– He fell in the honeypot, didn’t he.. ?? Just how much IS he making sitting on his rear making 1-2 posts?
Re: Grassley, it becomes clear that the real reason he was studying crooked evangelists was to learn their methods, not just to verify the obvious, that they were a bunch of crooks. Soon he’ll be twittering about the Rapture and the Mark of the Beast with the worst of them.
Those are dick-sucking lips Mrs Lincoln, so….
[re=594944]knoxtheharpy[/re]: Make her pay her campaign bills with chickens!
[re=594913]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Yes she did the very next day. And if she loses to a self described republican? Then she can roll around in her money until she takes that lobbyist job for BP or Citi.
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